Guernsey Wins 2016 “Grand Conceptor” EEA Award

ACEC March 2017 First Word

Guernsey received ACEC OKLAHOMA’s highest award in the 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards Competition. Their design for the Boeing Office & Electronics Laboratory Facility.

The 316,000 sq.ft. facility is programmed to bring some 800 high paying engineering/technical jobs to the greater Oklahoma City area, consolidating 30 labs and functions from other Boeing facilities. Physical secrecy and security as a primary driver as each space had to be analyzed on classification requirements. The facility was also “hardened” to withstand and F4 tornado to protect employees and high-value aeronautical laboratory equipment.

ACEC OKLAHOMA presented “Honor Awards” to four outstanding projects:

  • CEC - OSU Intramural Sports Fields, Stillwater
  • Olsson Associates - Emergency Repair of May Ave. Bridge in Oklahoma City
  • Olsson Associates - Widening of Western Road, Stillwater
  • Terracon - Geophysical Survey Limits Karst Formation Impact Study, Major & Woodward Counties.

Congratulations to all of the firms for their outstanding entries.