Roadway Improvements Project Receives ACEC Virginia Honor Award
Clark Nexsen received an Honor Award at the 2020 ACEC Virginia’s Engineering Excellence Awards Gala held February 6 for the Nansemond Parkway and Portsmouth Boulevard Improvements project. The expansion, completed in conjunction with Kimley-Horn, achieved multiple benefits for both cities: notably, an opportunity to benefit from economy-of-scale pricing and the lessening of potential impacts to motorists, as the traffic flow would be managed by a single contractor across city lines. Award entries were judged based on their ability to demonstrate outstanding engineering design, delivery, function and cost effectiveness.
This project represents regionalism and collaboration executed at the highest level, as two cities, two design firms, and multiple other partners effectively merged two projects for the construction phase.
The City of Suffolk and the City of Chesapeake, under cooperative agreement, completed the widening of the Nansemond Parkway/Portsmouth Boulevard corridor. The approximately 1.5-mile project provided much needed capacity and safety improvements for motorists along the corridor, as well as improved safer access for bicyclists and pedestrians along the heavily traveled roadway.
Today, the transformed, 0.4-mile stretch of Nansemond Parkway features a 10-foot wide multi-use path on the north side, 5-foot wide sidewalk on the south side, raised median with landscaping, turn lanes, closed drainage, and improved lighting, signage, and pavement markings.
This project represents regionalism and collaboration executed at the highest level, as two cities, two design firms, and multiple other partners effectively merged two projects for the construction phase.
About ACEC Virginia
The American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia is the state’s largest engineering firm association in the state, comprised of more than 85 engineering firms representing every discipline of engineering related to the built environment — civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, environmental, geotechnical — and affiliated companies. ACEC Virginia’s shared goals are to further the business interests of the membership, enhance the quality and safety of the environment and ensure the vitality of communities in Virginia.
