KCI Projects Earn National and Local Quality Awards

HUNT VALLEY, MD, February 1, 2008—At an awards banquet on January 30 hosted by the Maryland Quality Initiative, two projects completed by Maryland-based consulting firm KCI Technologies Inc. were honored with awards of excellence.

The Maryland Quality Initiative (MdQI) honored the MD Route 70 (Rowe Boulevard) bridges over Weems and College Creeks with an Award of Excellence for context sensitive project excellence. MdQI also honored KCI’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge Fish Passage Program with an Award of Excellence in Consultant Environmental Design. Project manager Robert Lynch, PE, and division chief Roger Windschitl accepted the awards for KCI.

At the same banquet, the National Partnership for Highway Quality (NPHQ) presented KCI with a National Achievement Award—Special Recognition for a Structures Project for the MD Route 70 project.

“All involved did an outstanding job in protecting the environment and making Rowe Boulevard an aesthetically and ecologically beautiful gateway to Annapolis,” said NPHQ Executive Director Bob Templeton.

MdQI and NPHQ are cooperatives organizations dedicated to continuous quality improvements in building and maintaining the nation’s roadway network.

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