2018 Silver Medal Award

Awarded for leadership. The group is recognized for cross-organizational leadership of NIST's first design-build project in a new state-of-the-art facility for the Communications Technology Laboratory. The team expertly united construction, administrative, and scientific experts identifying facility requirements while creatively using resources to meet mission needs. The team flawlessly executed the project with painstaking attention to detail, resulting in a fully functional mission-oriented research facility approximately 1.5 years faster, and 39 percent savings over the traditional design-bid-build methodology.