Projects in West Lafayette, Indianapolis, and Columbus, Ohio, achieved award wins for roadway design, bridge design, and planning excellence. Read on for the details.
Columbus Project Achieves Bridge Design Award
Our Columbus bridge team is celebrating an award win with Gannett Fleming for designing the $30 million Lazelle Road bridge project in Columbus. Three Ohio chapters of the Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD) selected the Lazelle Road Bridge for the 2021 Outstanding Short-Span Railway Bridge Award, choosing it as the best designed short-span railroad bridge in the entire state. American Structurepoint, as a sub to Gannett Fleming, completed the superstructure designs for replacing two railroad bridges approximately 79 feet long passing over Lazelle Road. Way to go, team!
Newman Road Underpass Project Wins National Recognition
Purdue University and American Structurepoint have earned another engineering excellence award for the Newman Road Underpass project in West Lafayette! The National Recognition Award is from the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 2022 Engineering Excellence Awards competition. The project replaced a 100-year-old, 1-lane railroad underpass on Newman Road with a modern bridge structure. Newman Road from SR 26 to Benson Road was completely reconstructed and widened, and the SR 26 and Newman Road intersection was converted to a dual-lane roundabout to improve traffic flow. The Discovery Park District of Purdue University now enjoys improved safety and enhanced public access. This makes the fourth award for the project.
Transportation, Planners Team Up on Award-Winning Project
Mike Maurovich (center) represented American Structurepoint at the APA Indiana Planning Awards luncheon
American Structurepoint is honored to have partnered with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization (IMPO) to craft the award-winning Federal Funds Exchange Guidance Document. The document received an Honorable Mention Award in the Best Practice category from the American Planning Association – Indiana Chapter (APA-IN). Our planning and transportation staff collaborated with the IMPO to develop processes and guidelines to improve project delivery and funding for vital transportation projects across Central Indiana.
The exchange program is the first of its kind in Indiana and gives communities in the eight-county IMPO area more flexibility, less complexity, and cost reductions in developing and delivering regional transportation projects. The American Structurepoint planners and transportation staff creating the guidance document were mindful it would serve as a blueprint for other Indiana MPOs interested in creating their own federal funds exchange program.