KPFF wins top award for Sea-Tac IAF project

KPFF Consulting Engineers is the top winner in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington’s annual Engineering Excellence Awards program. The firm took the Platinum Award for the International Arrivals Facility at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, featuring an ingenious 780-foot-long aerial walkway 85 feet above an active jet taxilane.  

Feb. 6, 2023 A Special Section of DJC.COM

Sponsored by ACEC’s Washington state chapter, the awards program recognizes projects that represent a wide range of engineering achievements and demonstrate the highest degree of skill and ingenuity. Nineteen projects were honored in this year’s program, as well as the Engineer of the Year, and two awards for diversity and inclusion. The top national awards will go on to compete in the ACEC national competition in Washington, D.C.  

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Project entries were evaluated by a five-judge panel: Robert Axley, engineer emeritus, Wood Harbinger; Steve Johnston, engineer emeritus, Landau Associates; Supriya Kelkar, senior design manager, Sound Transit; Benjamin Minnick, construction editor, Daily Journal of Commerce; and Kathy Robertson, engineer emeritus, Picketts Engineering. 

ACEC Washington is a professional trade association representing consulting engineering, land surveying and affiliated scientific and planning firms statewide.