Adel Brick Street Rehabilitation Project Receives Award

Courtesy of the City of Adel

Adel City Hall and McClure Engineering Company announced that the 2010 Brick Street Project in the Community has received the American Council of Engineering Companies of Iowa (ACEC) Grand Place Award for first place in the transportation category.

The award recognizes excellence in engineering. Projects are selected based on the best examples of engineering achievements using criteria such as uniqueness and originality, and technical, economic and social value.

“The Adel project reflects uniqueness because of the nature of rebuilding 100 year old brick streets reusing the existing brick coupled with modern methods of sub-structure and utility work.” said project engineer Jeff Schug of McClure Engineering Company.

With Adel’s reputation as a historic community which prides itself on having some of the only brick streets listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reusing the brick was a key element in designing and building the downtown streetscape project.

Adel City Council member and Street Committee Chair Jon McAvoy said, “Not only are the brick historically valuable, but by reusing them we saved money and were environmentally responsible because we did not discard the old and purchase new brick. New brick would have cost about $350,000 more and we would have wasted all the old brick.”

The ACEC award is a unique honor for Adel and represents recognition of excellence in design and construction of a special approach to streetscape rehabilitation. The award will be presented on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at the Sheraton in West Des Moines.

Additional questions may be directed to City Administrator Chad Bird at City Hall at (515) 993-4525 or Jeff Schug, Project Engineer with McClure Engineering Company at (515) 964-1229.

Chad A. Bird
City Administrator
City of Adel
Phone: (515) 993-4525
Email: cbird@adeliowa.org
Website: www.adeliowa.org