Engineering Excellence--Project of the Year Submissions.

• Position: Architecture & Engineering

Alaska Business is pleased to present the following short synopses of submissions for the Engineering Excellence--Project of the Year awards; the winners will be announced at this year's Engineering Banquet on February 25 at the Egan Center in Anchorage. For additional information about the projects, visit the Alaska Business website: akbizmag.com.

AMC Engineers--State Library, Archives, and Museum

The new Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library, Archive, and Museum officially opened its doors in June 2016. The facility brings together three separate state entities including the State Library, the State Archives, and the State Museum.

The existing Juneau Library, built in 1964, was demolished to make room for this new 118,000-square-foot, $130 million facility. This unique and technically challenging project is designed to establish precise control and monitor three distinct and competing indoor environments, each optimized to specific library, long term archive, and display museum requirements.

BBFM Engineers--Dena'ina Elementary School

The Dena'ina Elementary School is located off the Knik-Goose Bay Road in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. It is an approximately 44,000-square-foot facility with classrooms, administrative offices, library, music room, gymnasium, kitchen, and a large center atrium/multi-purpose room. The structure's vertical system is a two-story steel frame using open web steel joists, wide flange steel beams and girders, and tube steel columns. The lateral system is a series of special steel concentrically braced frames. The foundation is concrete strip and spread footings and contains an 18,000-gallon water tank.

CRW Consulting Group--Campbell Airstrip Road

The Campbell Airstrip Road in East Anchorage project included a design that reconstructed the degraded roadway, widened shoulders to improve vehicle and active-transportation commuter safety, and constructed drainage ditches to handle storm-water. It eliminated a parking lot, instead re-directing parking to safer lots more visible from the road.

The project, which was completed under budget, saved money by using roadway excavations to build up the pathway. Focusing on sustainable design, and sensitive to the nearby Alaska Botanical Gardens, it re-used existing excavated organics as topsoil to spread over the hillsides disturbed by construction.

DOWL & PND--Seward Marine Terminal Expansion

The Seward Marine Terminal Expansion Master Planning Effort was a TIGER...