At AECOM, we continuously strive for excellence. We maintain our successful track record by retaining the industry’s most talented professionals. We are driven by a well-defined set of Core Values, including Excellence and Innovation. This fuels our intense focus on continuous improvement, which leads to repeated commendation by our industry, clients and others.
AECOM Excellence Awards
We have created AECOM’s annual Excellence Awards, where we recognize the superior achievements of both individuals and project teams who work together across disciplines, roles and technologies to bring about positive change in the world.
In 2009, AECOM’s achievement in technical excellence reached exciting new levels and the program continues to celebrate notable client projects and business contributions through four project categories along with categories for Business Improvement Innovation and Thought Leadership. The latter is an award that recognizes those who serve as sterling examples of innovation and leadership for colleagues, clients and other stakeholders. Winners come from all parts of the world and represent a wide range of practice areas.
Handpicked from 114 project award entries, 10 Business Improvement award entries and eight Thought Leadership award entries, the 2009 Excellence Awards winners are listed below:
BEST LARGE PROJECT
Entries for the Best Large Project award were judged against a host of criteria, including achievement of budget and schedule goals, nature of challenges overcome and overall client satisfaction.
Name: Inner Northern Busway, Brisbane, Australia
BEST SMALL PROJECT
Entries for the Best Small Project award were completed in FY08 or FY09. Other than size, these projects were judged against identical criteria as the Large Project nominations.
Name: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION
Entries for Best Technical Innovation award were for projects where technological advances or developments were achieved, or where existing technology was adapted to new applications.
Name: Watercare Biogas Cogeneration Plant, Auckland, New Zealand
BEST WIN
Entries for the Best Win award were for new contracts where a series of criteria were achieved such as size or visibility of the job, quality of the competition and the participation of multiple AECOM operations. This category had three co-winners:
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT INNOVATION
Entries for the Business Improvement Innovation award were for an innovation to a business process that had a major impact on how the company or group does business.
Name: AECOM Design and Productivity Tool (ADAPT)
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Entries for the Thought Leadership award were for individuals who, through their participation in highly visible public forums as industry or technical leaders, made significant contributions toward advancing AECOM’s purpose of enhancing and sustaining the world’s built, natural and social environments.
Thought Leadership awards were presented to:
CEO AWARDS
In addition to the Excellence Awards for projects, business contributions and thought leadership, four CEO Awards were bestowed at the 2009 Global Leadership Meeting:
External Recognition
We are proud to be recognized by major awards programs – sponsored by professional associations, government agencies, civic organizations and industry publications – for our excellence and innovation. Their commendations range from “Outstanding Achievement in Bridge Engineering” and “Low Carbon New Build Project of the Year” to a “24-Month Incident Free Safety Award” and an “Award for History Preservation.”Our selection for these prestigious industry honors reflects our commitment to enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments.
COMPANYWIDE RECOGNITION
Some of AECOM’s recent projects and accompanying external awards are below:
2009
2008
AECOM in the ENR Top 500