Three Dewberry Projects Recognized with ACEC NY Engineering Excellence Awards
FAIRFAX, Va. — Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been recognized by American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) New York as part of the 2021 Engineering Excellence Awards for its site/civil, transportation, and water engineering services on projects in New York City and surrounding areas.
The firm received a platinum award in the waste and stormwater category for the Green Infrastructure Project in Jamaica Bay Tributary areas in Queens. Dewberry provided water and wastewater engineering services to manage impervious runoff for phase 1, an area of more than 1,200 acres, for Jamaica Bay tributaries as part of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s (NYCDEP) initiative to manage 1.5% of the impervious stormwater runoff in priority combined sewer overflow (CSO) areas. The firm also developed a custom script for geographic information system (GIS) field data collection to update maps in real time within a mobile georeferencing application.