For Immediate Release

PHOENIX, AZ (July 19, 2010) NYSE, TSX: STN 

The City of Nogales, Arizona’s International Wastewater Treatment Facility project was recently named one of the Public Works Projects of the Year by the American Public Works Association (APWA).   The project’s managing agency, the City of Nogales, along with primary contractor PCL Construction Inc., and primary consultant, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., will be presented with the award during APWA’s 2010 International Congress & Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts from August 15-18, 2010. 

The APWA Public Works Projects of the Year awards are presented annually to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects, recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, contractor, consultant and their cooperative achievements. This year, APWA selected 18 projects in five categories: Disaster or Emergency Construction, Environment, Historical Restoration, Structures, and Transportation.

For more information, or to obtain a press pass for attendance at the Awards Ceremony during the APWA 2010 International Congress & Exposition (August 15-18, 2010) in Boston, Massachusetts, contact APWA Media Relations Manager, Laura Bynum, lbynum@apwa.net, or call 202.218.6736. 

About APWA
The American Public Works Association (www.apwa.net) is a not-for-profit, international organization of more than 29,500 members involved in the field of public works. APWA serves its members by promoting professional excellence and public awareness through education, advocacy and the exchange of knowledge.

Stantec provides professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects.  

Media Contact:
Danny Craig
Media Relations
Stantec
(949) 923-6085
danny.craig@stantec.com

The Society for Marketing Professional Services Arizona chapter presents its next monthly program Xtreme Green on Thursday, July 15, 2010, 7:30–9:00 a.m., at the Desert Willow Conference Center, 4340 E. Cotton Center Blvd, Suite 100, Phoenix. The cost of the program is $35 for SMPS members and member guests, $50 for non-members and $60 for walk-ins and late registrants, which includes breakfast and program registration. 

Program Description
The conversation around sustainability, its practices, initiatives and implications is vast and constantly changing. Join Lisa Barnard, founder of Brain Lab, as she sheds some light on adopting triple bottom line practices. The presentation will look broadly at social responsibility, greenwashing and green marketing, as well as address practical ways you can create a corporate culture for sustainability and develop metrics that help tie the adoption of sustainability initiatives to the bottom line.

To register for this event, please visit www.smpsarizona.org/events. 

The Society for Marketing Professional Services Arizona (www.smpsarizona.org) was founded in 1983 and has grown to include more than 200 marketing professionals from the architecture, engineering and construction industry.  It is the only organization in the state that gives A/E/C marketing professionals access to their collaborations, competitors and clients.  SMPS membership offers professional development seminars, programs on industry trends, panel discussions, networking events and a mentoring program.

SMPS Arizona Chapter is presenting two awards for 2010 to recognize the professionals on your marketing and/or business development staff who exemplify the profession.

RISING STAR AWARD

This award recognizes a marketing or business development professional who has six years or less of experience and is lighting up the sky. Honor their work and dedication to your firm by nominating them as a SMPS Arizona Rising Star.

PINNACLE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

This award honors the marketing or business development team member who has ten years or more of experience and is reaching for the highest peak. Honor their work and dedication to your firm by nominating them for the SMPS Arizona Pinnacle Achievement Award.

Nominations

You can nominate yourself or a colleague. Tell us in 1,000 words or less how the nominee has demonstrated excellence in the areas of marketing and/or business development. Examples of entries could include client testimonials or case studies.

Eligibility

The nominee must be a current member of SMPS Arizona and must work in the Arizona A/E/C market.

Submission

Please send your entries in a Word document in an electronic file by 5 p.m. Friday, May 21, 2010 to:

Patricia Krogh
SMPS Chapter President
pkrogh@lsdaz.com

Award Submittals will be judged by members of the SMPS Arizona Leadership Team. Members who are judges will be excluded from submitting an entry. Winners will be announced at the June SMPS Monthly Breakfast. No entry materials will be returned. No entries received after May 21, 2010 will be considered.

Please include the following with your entry:

• The Name of the Award for Which You are Submitting
• Your Contact Information
• Nominee’s Name
• Nominee’s Company
• Nominee’s Supervisor’s Contact Phone and Email

Join the Society for Design Administration any time in April and receive $25 off of a 2010 membership. Plus one free SDA webinar registration in 2010!

SDA is dedicated to the educational and professional standards of administrators in design firms across the United States and Canada. Members include office managers, human resource staff, controllers, administrative assistants, marketing or PR managers, etc., of design firms and other design-related affiliations.

The Phoenix Chapter of SDA meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 a.m. The current meeting location is at the University Club of Phoenix (39 E. Monte Vista Road, Phoenix, AZ 85004) The upcoming program schedule includes:

April 14, 7:30 a.m. – IntelliTECH Communications Group

May 12, 7:30 a.m. – Eileen Spitalney, Co-Founder, Sales and Team Leader – Fairytale Brownies

June 9, 7:30 a.m. – Roundtable Discussion – Roles, Responsibilities and Key Issues of the SDA Phoenix Chapter

If you want to learn from others, network, participate in educational opportunities and gain new friendships, this group is for you! For more information about the SDA Phoenix Chapter you may contact one of the representatives listed below, or simply come to the next meeting. Visit the SDA website at www.sdadmin.org for details about the organization.

For more information visit:

www.sdaphoenix.org or www.sdadmin.org
SDA is an affiliate of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)

The following is a guest blog by Stephanie Hertzberg of SmithGroup and President-elect of SMPS Arizona.

When asked by the Publicity Branch to Blog for SMPS, I ambitiously agreed to handle the month of April although I did not have a clue what I was going to blog about.  As a board member I knew it was my duty to partake in this ever popular method of communication and reach out to our younger highly tech savvy membership. Being new to this whole blogging thing makes it that much more difficult for me to get my mind around what to write, so when asked if I could talk about American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Architecture Week for my blog topic I jumped at the opportunity.   Working at SmithGroup I thought this would be a perfect fit for me and something I was very interested in… So here it goes…

In case you did not know National Architecture Week starts on April 13^th and was created as a way to foster public dialogue about architecture while increasing awareness of the role architects play in creating positive change in communities.  Architecture week started in 2007 to coincide with the organizations 150^th anniversary. Congress passed a resolution stating that Architecture week should be held every year in April in honor of AIA’s founding in April 1857. This is not only an opportunity for AIA members, but everyone is invited to engage virtually on the American Institute of Architects Architecture Week 2010 Facebook fan page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Architecture-Week-2010-The-American-Institute-of-Architects/376646673845?v=app_4949752878

These discussions will also be supplemented by AIA National’s first ever interactive chat on Twitter. The thought is that these conversations will address key issues like the Economic Recovery Act investments and how we can turn today’s “challenges” into future opportunities.

Each day of architecture week a different discussion topic will be posted to their fan page.  These topics will revolve around design, economy, education, housing, transportation, sustainability/environment and healthcare.  The depth of topics is to illustrate how design touches everyone.  The lineup is as follows: Monday, community revitalization; Tuesday, School Construction; Wednesday, Affordable Housing; Thursday, Sustainability; Friday, Inclusiveness; Saturday, Historic Preservation; Sunday, Future of Profession.

The AIA is also encouraging people to contribute projects, images, video or overall information to the virtual celebration.  If you are not a Facebook user yet, now is the time to join because only members of the Facebook community will be allowed to view the forums and make comments. So make sure you become a fan and join the discussion!