Innovative Guides Provide Strategies to Improving City’s Stormwater, Resilience
WASHINGTON – Nitsch Engineering of Boston, Mass., has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 58th annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA). The recognition comes for developing Green Infrastructure Handbooks for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.
The handbooks provide comprehensive guidance on implementing and maintaining green infrastructure solutions to enhance stormwater management and improve Boston’s resilience. With little property of its own on which to implement green infrastructure and low-impact development solutions, the Commission sought to inspire property owners to integrate strategies into their projects.
The Planning and Design Handbook, first issued in 2021, provides guidance for public and private property owners on implementing green infrastructure techniques, and offers a toolkit as a reference guide. The Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Handbook, published in 2024, serves as a companion piece that provides detailed and illustrated maintenance guidance, inspection checklists, and roles and responsibilities for maintaining green infrastructure installations.
Nitsch Engineering specializes in providing civil, transportation, and structural engineering; land surveying; green infrastructure and resilience; planning; and GIS services.
The project is eligible for additional honors as part of 194 entries this year representing engineering excellence from throughout the nation and the world. Judging for the awards program—known industry-wide as the “Academy Awards of the engineering industry”– took place in February and was conducted by a national 32-member panel of built environment leaders, along with experts from government, the media, and academia. Award criteria focused on uniqueness and originality, technical innovation, social and economic value, and generating excitement for the engineering profession.
Recognition of all award winners—including 16 Honor Awards, eight Grand Awards, and the prestigious “Grand Conceptor Award” for the year’s most outstanding overall engineering achievement—will take place at the EEA Gala, to be held at the Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the business association of America’s engineering industry, representing more than 5,200 independent engineering firms and more than 600,000 professionals throughout the United States engaged in the development of America’s transportation, water, and energy infrastructure, along with environmental, industrial, and other public and private facilities. Founded in 1906 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations.