What good is an office at the Battery, home of the Atlanta Braves, if you can’t host your colleagues every so often?
Before kicking off the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) National Conference — and cheering on the 2021 World Series champs — Long Engineering (an Atlas Company) hosted a pregame party, inviting member firms to tour their home base.
It was a celebration honoring the ASHE Georgia Section’s 25-year existence. Thanks to all who joined!
On March 25th, the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) hosted their annual Georgia Chapter Engineer Excellence Awards. We are pleased to announce that the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design won Category 2 – Building/Technology Systems as well as the Grand Prize!
The Engineering Excellence Awards is an annual design competition held by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Georgia (ACEC Georgia). The Engineering Excellence Awards recognize engineering achievements demonstrating the highest degree of merit and ingenuity. Entries are rated on the basis of uniqueness and originality; future value to the engineering profession; social, economic and sustainable development considerations; complexity; and successful fulfillment of client/owner’s needs.
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is a $30M, 42,500 SF building that was integrated into the EcoCommons space on the Georgia Tech campus. This eco-friendly structure is among the greenest in the world for being “net positive” with its use of energy and water. In other words, the Kendeda Building generates more energy and captures more water than it uses.
Congratulations to our partners who were recognized by Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2022-2023 Book of Lists! Matthew Dale, from Impact Development Management, LLC – 40 Under 40 List. McCarthy Building Companies’ – listed as one of the Best Places to Work. And last, but certainly not least, Atlas Technical Consultants was listed under Atlanta’s 25 Largest Engineering Firms! Congratulations L. Joe Boyer!
It’s been a great 2022 for us, our talented staff, and our valued partners. Our team has proudly been involved in countless projects, but today we are highlighting a few that we were grateful to be included in for various industry awards.
We are humbled by these acknowledgements and are incredibly proud of our team and the hard work they do year-round.
Check out the awards below:
2022 Georgia Partnership for Transportation Quality Preconstruction (GPTQ) Award: Exceptional Bridge and/or Structural Design; AND the GPTQ Grand Prize:
2022 Atlanta Urban Design Commission (UDC) Award of Excellence: Resilient Infrastructure
Westside Park – City of Atlanta
Services provided: Surveying, Civil Engineering, Preliminary Design, Construction Documentation, Signal Design, Permitting
Best in Atlanta Real Estate Renovation Award
Bobby Jones Golf Course
Services provided: Surveying, Civil Engineering, Preliminary Design, Construction Documentation, Signal Design, Permitting
2023 Georgia Engineering Excellence State Award for Building/Technology Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology – The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
Services provided: Site Design, Stormwater Management, Permitting, Construction Documents, Construction Period Services, Land Surveying, and Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
2022 USGBC Chrysalis Award: Climate Champion Award; AND the People’s Choice Award
Georgia Institute of Technology – The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
Services provided: Site Design, Stormwater Management, Permitting, Construction Documents, Construction Period Services, Land Surveying, and Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
Georgia Institute of Technology – 2022 Internship Program Employer of the Year
A big THANK YOU to our team as well as the many other groups that we have partnered with in 2022. Looking forward to additional successes in 2023.
Our team came together and donated quite the array for Toys for Tots. We’re proud of everyone for sharing in the spirit of giving and we can’t wait to see the toys go to good homes!
Check out the attached pictures of the 1023-acre Agave Solar Field in Maricopa County, Arizona. Agave Solar was designed by Nicholas Sauer, EIT, David Mckenney, P.E., Ricardo Menchaca @Emory Redding, and Tepolak Seth, EIT Seth last year. The grading is almost complete, and piles are starting to be driven in. Part of the design included providing enough site storage to hold the 100-year 2-hour storm and the import of 1 million Cubic Yards of import fill dirt from the construction of an adjacent nuclear plant cooling pond into the overall site grading.
LONG also supported McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. during the project’s zoning application. A detailed hydrologic/hydraulic analysis for onsite and offsite flows was performed to document the potential impacts of the project on floodplain elevations.
This site was a challenge but LONG was able to exceed the client expectations.
Bobby Jones Golf Course has won the “Best in Atlanta Real Estate 2021 Renovation Award” by Atlanta Business Chronicle.
The golf course’s renovation was completed in 2020 and has transformed the course into the home of golf in Georgia. The improvement includes a 9-hole reversible golf course, a parking garage, new clubhouse, and a signalized intersection for a new entrance off Northside Drive. Also included is the 23,241 square foot Murray Golf House containing Boone’s Restaurant, Georgia Golf Hall of Fame and the pro shop. The renovation included 6 surface tennis courts, and 6 tennis courts on the upper level of the 288-space parking deck supplementing the existing 12 courts at the adjacent Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, and a maintenance and cart storage building.
LONG provided the site design/civil engineering that included pedestrian/cart paths linking the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, parking deck/tennis courts, Murray Golf House, practice facilities and golf course. LONG also designed the site stormwater management measures that included a micro-pool stormwater management facility, a bioretention area, and a bioslope filter.
Three additional bridges were required at the pedestrian/cart paths. LONG was responsible for determining each bridge’s dimensions based on stream width, developed bridge profiles and performed the hydraulic analysis utilizing HEC-RAS to analyze the impact of these bridges on flood levels, provided bridge scour prevention design and coordinated extensively with The PATH Foundation for their path system that encircles the golf course.
