American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii

And the winner is...

Yogi Kwong Takes
EEA Top Honors

Yogi Kwong Engineers, LLC received the Grand Conceptor Award at the Engineering Excellence Awards Banquet on Sunday November 16, 2008. Its project, Emergency Earthquake Damage Assessment, Tunnel & Intake Repair, was chosen to receive the coveted top prize by a panel of distinguished judges.

More than 160 gathered at the Koolau Golf Club to honor this year's EEA finalists. Also receiving awards were:

Excellence Award
Belt Collins Hawaii
(in conjunction with Earth Tech AECOM, Parsons Brinckerhoff and R.M. Towill)
Palau Compact Road

Honor Awards

The Glosten Associates & KPFF Consulting Engineers Design Build Barges & Vehicle Ramps

M&E Pacific
NPDES Municipal Storm Water Project

Wilson Okamoto Corporation
P431 - Alpha & Bravo Wharf Improvements

Earth Tech AECOM
Emergency Slope Repair at Round Top Drive

Earth Tech AECOM
Kailua Road Rockfall & Landslide & Mitigation

Congratulations to all of the above winners!

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ACECH Working for You
in
Washington D.C.

ACECH members met with Hawai'i's congressional delegation to discuss our industry's key concerns -

increased funding for critical water infrastructure

restoring the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund

defeating the unfair 3% withholding mandate

ACECH members Lester Fukuda, David Bills, June Nakamura, Jon Nishimura & Norman Kawachika meet with Senator Daniel Inouye on Capitol Hill..

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ACECH Meets With
Transportation Chair Obestar
and Representative Hirono

ACEC PAC Champion for Hawaii, David Bills and Ginny Wright, ACECH Executive Director, attended the Hawaii fundraiser for Congresswoman Mazie Hirono (Hawaii, 2^nd District, Member of the Transportation & Infrastructure and Education & Labor Committees). Congressman Jim Obestar (Minnesota, 8^th District and Chair of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee) was the featured guest as well as speaker.

The evening kicked off with a private pre-reception for invited guests. Mr. Bills and Ms. Wright attended and had the opportunity to share thoughts with both Congressman Obestar and Congresswoman Hirono regarding ACEC’s testimony to the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on numerous fronts.

Mr. Bills presented a $2,000 ACEC PAC check to Congresswoman Hirono at the event. The event was held on Thursday March 27, 2008 at the Plaza Club located in the heart of downtown Honolulu.

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New ACECH Leadership for 2008-2009

Congratulations to the 2008-2009 ACECH Board of Directors who were elected on March 18, 2008 at our Annual Meeting.

President - Norman Kawachika
SSFM International

Pres.-Elect - John Katahira
Limtiaco Consulting Group

Treasurer - Sheryl Nojima
Gray Hong Nojima & Associates

Secretary - Douglas Lee
Brown & Caldwell

National Director - Janice Marsters
Masa Fujioka & Associates

Past President - Jon Nishimura
Fukunaga & Associates

Director - Terrance Arashiro
Austin Tsutsumi & Associates

Director - Beverly Ishii-Nakayama
Shigemura Lau Sakanashi Higuchi & Associates

Director - Joel Yuen
Insynergy Engineering Inc.

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