Two EnSafe projects earned top category honors in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee's 2008 Engineering Excellence competition March 4 in Nashville, Tennessee.

The top award in the environmental category went to "Metal Management:  Engineering Revitalization."  EnSafe was the prime consultant for revitalizing the Metal Management Nashville LLC (MMN) site, providing expertise in the wide range of environmental and traditional engineering services needed to convert an industrial Brownfield site for an environmentally beneficial reuse.  In essence, EnSafe recycled the contaminated site in Nashville, Tennessee, so paper goods and metals could be recycled there.  The MMN site, occupied for almost 100 years by a fertilizer manufacturer, was impacted with lead and arsenic from historical operations.

The top award in the studies, research, and consulting engineering category went to "Wetlands Investigation:  A Study in Cost-Savings."  EnSafe helped the U.S. Navy avoid spending approximately $100 million by cost-effectively completing a wetlands investigation using less than half the amount budgeted — saving more than $1.3 million — and then creatively using data-evaluation tools to achieve a “no action” status.  EnSafe’s innovations resulted in a projected cost-avoidance of approximately $99 million by eliminating additional investigations, remediation planning, and remedial actions at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida,

Shaun Winter, PG, and Scott Heflinger, PE, accepted the environmental award while Allison Harris, PG, and Paul Stoddard, PG, CPG, accepted the studies award on behalf of EnSafe.

These new awards join this list of past Tennessee Engineering Excellence competition winners:

• 2007 Grand Award for The Binagadi Challenge: Cold War Legacy Site Cleanup, Baku, Azerbaijan
• 2007 Top Small Project Award for Cost-Saving In Situ Lagoon Closure, Napoleon, Ohio
• 2006 Top Environmental Award for Innovative Remediation of Ferrochromium-Impacted Site, Charleston, South Carolina
• 2005 Top Surveying and Mapping Technology Award for GIS Mapping at NSA Mid-South, Millington, Tennessee
• 2005 Top Studies, Research and Consulting Engineering Award for Innovative ICP/SPCC Plans for MCB Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River, North Carolina
• 2003 Grand Award for 3D Imaging of Karst Bedrock beneath Engineered Structures, Dickson County, Tennessee
• 2002 Grand Award for Use of Mine Spoils as an Alternative Capping Material for Sanitary Landfill Closure, Grundy County, Tennessee
• 2000 Grand Award for Remediation of Perchlorate Contamination at NWIRP McGregor, Texas
• 1999 Top Environmental Award for Innovative Remediation of Stamina Mills NPL Site, Smithfield, Rhode Island