2023 Hawaii Section Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement

The ASCE Hawaii Section annually recognizes an exemplary civil engineering project as the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA). This prestigious award recognizes the project that best illustrates superior civil engineering skills and represents a significant contribution to civil engineering progress and society.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Hawaii Section is pleased to announce the 2023 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award winners. The purpose of this award program is to recognize projects that demonstrate important outstanding civil engineering accomplishments by Hawaii’s design and construction professionals.

To be eligible, projects were required to have been designed or constructed in Hawaii and completed within the last two years. Some of the key judging criteria included: Resourcefulness in identifying and solving design challenges; Contributions to the well-being of people and communities; Pioneering use of materials and construction methods; Inventive or new application of civil engineering technologies; Protection of and reducing impacts to natural resources; Beneficial effects of the project, including aesthetic value.

OCEA AWARDS

GRAND WINNER & BEST

Transportation Project

Kapaa Stream Bridge and Kuhio Highway/Mailihuna Road Roundabout
Nominator: Jacobs Inc.
Owner: Federal Highway Administration, Central Federal Lands Highway Division

BEST

Building/Structural Project:

Ko'ula
Nominator: BASE
Owner: The Howard Hughes Corporation

BEST

Studies and Research Project:

Future Stability & Adaptation Under Sea Level Rise at Hilo Breakwater:
A Numerical Assessment Utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics
Nominator: Sea Engineering, Inc.
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

BEST

Water/Wastewater/Environmental Project:

Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility, Facility Plan
Nominator: Kennedy Jenks
Owner: County of Maui, Wastewater Reclamation Divison

BEST

Humanitarian Project:

Waiahole Potable Water System Emergency Repairs
Nominator: Okahara and Associates, Inc.
Owner: Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation

KOOLAU BALLROOM EVENT GALLERY

Check out the pictures taken of the 2023 Hawaii Section Outstanding Civil Engineering Award hosted at the Koolau Ballroom.

PAST WINNERS

2022 Hale Kalele, Honolulu, Hawaii

2021 Opaekaa Bridge Repair/Rehabilitation, Wailua, Hawaii

2020 Hawaiki Submarine Cable and Kapolei Landing Station, Kapolei, Hawaii

2019 Keauhou Beach Hotel and Site Demolition, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

2017 Ala Moana Wastewater Pump Station Force Mains #3 & #4, Honolulu, Hawaii

2016 Pearl Harbor Channel Underwater Waterline Crossing

2015 Stream Bank Bluff Protection and Stabilization at Riverside Apartments

2014 Hana Highway Route 360 Emergency Repairs

2012 Waimalu Sewer Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Phase 1 plus 4 other category projects

2011 Wana’ao Road and Keolu Drive Reconstructed Sewer Project plus one other category project

2010 Hurricane and Wind Design Standards plus 4 other category projects

2009 Saddle Road Hawaii Project plus 5 other category projects

2008 Kaumalapau Harbor Breakwater Repair, Lanai, Hawaii Award of Merit: Palau Compact Road, Babeldaob, Republic of Palau

2007 Navy Water Treatment Plant Upgrade on Guam

2006 Design/Build AEF FOL Aircraft Maintenance Hangar 2005 Air Force MILCON Program to Repair Airfield Pavement, Wharf and Facilities at Wake Island

2005 Kalanianaole Highway Emergency Landslide Repairs at Castle Junction, Kailua, Hawaii

2004 Sewer Outfall Extension at Fort Kamehameha, Pearl Harbor Awardof Merit - Emergency Repair for Waipahu Pump Station, Waipahu

2003 Emergency By-Pass Water Tunnel, Hamakua Island of Hawaii (2004 National OCEA Finalist) Award of Merit - FY01 MCON Project P-491, Sewer Force Main - Ford Island to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard

2002 55-inch HOST Park Seawater Supply System (2003 National OCEA Finalist) Award of Merit - Hart Street Wastewater Pump Station Force Main Replacement

2001 Nimitz Highway Reconstructed Sewer Award of Merit - Replacement of Keaiwa Stream Bridge on Mamalahoa Highway

2000 Emergency Rockfall Remediation of Kamehameha Highway at Waimea Bay

1999 Aiea Heights Bridge Lengthening

1998 Admiral Clarey Bridge (1999 National OCEA Award of Merit)

1997 Interstate Route H-3 (1998 National OCEA Winner)

1996 Nimitz Highway Relief Sewer Project 1994 University of Hawaii Special Events Arena

1993 Wailupe Reconstructed Sewer Project

1991 Sewer Tunnel Relief Project 1990 Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program

1989 Laupahoehoe Harbor

1988 Hawaii Science and Technology Park and Seacoast Test Facility

1987 Keehi Interchange, H-1 Freeway

1986 Mililani Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Plant

1985 Kahuku Shrimp Farm Project

1984 OTEC Cold Water Pipe Test

1978 Reef Runway, Honolulu International Airport