BOSTON, MA :The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named BETA Group, Inc. (BETA) as a winner of their 2020 Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for their work on North Square in the heart of Boston.

The 2020 Engineering Excellence Awards were recently announced and will be celebrated at the 2021 ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala. The awards celebrate innovation, ingenuity, and excellence in engineering achievement.

The City of Boston recognized the need to improve pedestrian accessibility, safety, and mobility within North Square, the City’s oldest continuously occupied neighborhood, while being sensitive to some of the most significant historic and cultural sites in the country. The City teamed with BETA to conceptualize and complete the design. Through a collaborative design process and public outreach program, the project successfully implemented an improved layout that is ADA compliant, maximizes safety and access to and through the Square for all users, and incorporates public art.

BETA is an engineering, planning, landscape architecture and construction services firm, specializing in civil, structural, water and wastewater, and traffic engineering; landscape architecture; environmental and stormwater services; and GIS/asset management. BETA has offices in Worcester, Chicopee and Norwood, Massachusetts as well as Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.

“The Engineering Excellence Awards program recognizes engineering firms for projects that demonstrate a high degree of achievement, value and ingenuity,” said Jenn Howe,  President of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts and Principal and Vice President at SMMA, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates. “Entrants are rated by an independent panel of judges from the architectural community, the construction industry, academia, the media, and the public sector on the basis of uniqueness and originality; future value to the profession and perception by the public; social, economic and sustainable development considerations; complexity; and successful fulfillment of the client/owner’s need, including schedule and budget. We congratulate them and thank them for their contributions to improving the quality of our everyday lives.”