S&ME receives silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award
S&ME services to Boeing during the award period included geotechnical exploration and engineering design, International Building Code (IBC) Special Inspections, construction material testing, and indoor air quality testing for leadership in energy and environmental design( LEED) certification.
- (1888PressRelease) April 24, 2012 - Charleston, SC, - Engineering firm, S&ME, Inc., today announced it has received a 2011 Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA).
The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers and professional service providers who have achieved superior performance. S&ME maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period from Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 30, 2011 for its services during construction of Boeing's Charleston, South Carolina 787 Dreamliner Campus. S&ME was one of only 407 suppliers world wide to achieve recognition as a Boeing Silver level BPEA.
Vice President Angela Musselwhite, PE, S&ME's project manager for the Boeing work, thanked both her staff and those from Boeing with whom they worked. "We were most fortunate in forging an outstanding professional relationship with Boeing. Just being a part of this exciting project, and all it means to the Charleston region, has been quite an honor. But receiving recognition like this from an organization like The Boeing Company is a highlight for our firm and all our employees' careers."
S&ME services to Boeing during the award period included geotechnical exploration and engineering design, International Building Code (IBC) Special Inspections, construction material testing, and indoor air quality testing for leadership in energy and environmental design( LEED) certification. S&ME's services for this project were associated with design and construction of Boeing's 787 final assembly building, site services building, delivery center, welcome center, truck inspection building, HUB employee center expansion and the offsite Interiors Responsibility Center in Palmetto Commerce Park.
S&ME's work for the enormous Boeing 787 Dreamliner project began in 2004 for construction of the aft and mid-body fuselage plants, when it developed cost-effective methods for overcoming poor soil conditions at the site caused by phosphate mining in the early 20th century. For this initial site work S&ME was awarded South Carolina's top Engineering Excellence Award (EEA), the Palmetto Award, from the state's chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies.
S&ME has operated a major branch in Charleston for 32 years. The firm employs more than a thousand employees in 26 locations in the Southeast and Midwest. It is currently ranked 97th on Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine's Top 500 Design Firms list.
For more information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.
Contact: Chuck Black, S&ME, Inc., cblack ( @ ) smeinc dot com
About S&ME Geotechnical engineering; Construction engineering, testing & monitoring; Environmental services; Occupational health & safety; Water resources; Solid waste engineering; Natural resources and Cultural resources • Founded 1973 • over 1,000 employees • 26 locations in AL, FL, GA, KY, NC, OH, SC, TN, VA • Commercial, manufacturing, institutional, governmental, military clients •
Employee owned • Over 70 Engineering Excellence Awards, state chapters of American Council of Engineering Companies • Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine's Top 500 Design Firms, Top 200 Environmental Firms
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