Boston – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Kleinfelder as a winner of its 2017 Gold Engineering Excellence Award for work on the Massport Coastal Flooding Resiliency project.
Kleinfelder, with offices in Cambridge and Framingham, was retained by the Massachusetts Port Authority to help design and implement physical floodproofing systems and flood operations plans to help protect critical infrastructure at Logan International Airport and South Boston Maritime Facilities. These strategies are being implemented to make Massport more resilient to flooding, building on previous climate assessments and planning.
Kleinfelder designed portable flood barrier systems, permanent flood doors, backflow preventers, and emergency electrical systems for Massport’s 10 most vulnerable critical assets. In addition, Kleinfelder and Massport developed Coastal Flood Operations Plans that scale to over 90 actions, across 50 sites, starting 72 hours in advance of flooding, and carrying through early recovery.
“The winning projects exemplify ingenuity and professionalism and represent the breadth of engineering’s contribution to our everyday lives,” said ACEC/MA President Mark S. Bartlett PE, Senior Associate at Stantec, Inc. “They are outstanding examples of how engineers connect communities, provide safe and reliable water and energy, and make our buildings safe and efficient. The professional engineers and their colleagues at our member firms are dedicated to working on quality infrastructure, which wouldn’t otherwise exist. These outstanding projects are but a few examples of the quality work designed by Massachusetts engineering firms.”
