2007 MCA Press Release 
The annual SMPS National Marketing Communications Awards (MCA)
recognize outstanding marketing pieces created by architectural,
engineering, design, and construction firms. Awards are presented in 18
categories; if applicable, a small-firm award winner is named in each
category.
Open to SMPS members and nonmembers alike, the MCA program
offers professional service firms an opportunity to showcase their best
marketing efforts each year and to receive feedback from a jury of
experts representing various roles in the A/E/C industry. This year's
program was chaired by Kim Niedzielski, Senior Marketing
Manager for HGA Architects and Engineers in Minneapolis,
MN.
This year's MCA recipients are:
(Click on
to view image of winning
entry.)
Best of Show-Large
Firm-HGA Architects and Engineers (Specific Project
Marketing) 
Best of Show-Small Firm-Keith Kinslow and Todd (Target
Market) 
People's Choice Award-HDR (Specific Project Marketing) 
Adobe Merit
Award-Cooper Carry (Magazine) 
Advertising
1st Place Opus Corporation,
Minnetonka, MN 
1st Place Small Firm
Green Building Services, Inc., Portland, OR 
2nd Place T.Y. Lin International, San Francisco,
CA 
3rd Place Carter & Burgess, Fort Worth,
TX 
Annual Report
1st Place
ARUP, San Francisco, CA 
2nd Place URS, New York, NY 
3rd Place JE Dunn Construction, Kansas City,
MO 
Book/Monograph
1st Place Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
Architects, Seattle, WA 
2nd Place Goettsch Partners, Chicago, IL 
3rd Place Kirksey, Houston, TX 
Brochure
1st Place Walter P Moore,
Houston, TX 
1st Place, tie Small Firm Green Building Services,
Inc., Portland, OR 
1st Place, tie Small Firm Bowhaus Design Groupe,
Philadelphia, PA 
2nd Place SmithGroup, Detroit, MI 
3rd Place HNTB Corporation, Kansas City,
MO 
Corporate Identity
1st Place Beverly
Prior Architects, San Francisco, CA 
2nd Place Orcutt/Winslow, Phoenix, AZ 
3rd Place KKG / CBA, Columbus, OH 
Direct-Mail Campaign
1st Place Candela, Seattle, WA 
1st Place Small Firm Marketlink, Sacramento, CA 
2nd Place KS Associates, Elyria, OH 
3rd Place Karpinski Engineering, Cleveland, OH 
Feature Writing
1st Place BSA LifeStructures,
Indianapolis, IN 
2nd Place PGAL, Houston, TX 
3rd Place Cannon Design, Grand Island, NY 
Holiday
1st Place Butler Rogers Baskett
Architects, New York, NY 
1st Place Small Firm TGBA / Taylor Gregory Butterfield
Architects, Edmonds, WA 
2nd Place Progressive AE, Grand Rapids, MI 
3rd Place Champlin/Haupt Architects, Inc, Cincinnati,
OH 
Internal
Communications
1st Place EDAW, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA 
2nd Place Carter & Burgess, Fort Worth, TX 
3rd Place Orcutt/Winslow, Phoenix, AZ 
Magazine
1st Place Cooper Carry,
Inc, Atlanta, GA 
2nd Place Halcrow, New York, NY 
3rd Place HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, MO 
Media Relations Campaign
1st Place EYP Mission Critical
Facilities, Albany, NY 
1st Place Small Firm Constructive Communication, Inc.,
Dublin, OH 
2nd Place BSA LifeStructures, Indianapolis, IN 
Newsletter - External
1st Place CG Marketing
Communications, Cincinnati, OH 
1st Place Small Firm Frisbie Architects, River Falls,
WI 
2nd Place SWCA Environmental, Phoenix, AZ 
3rd Place KJWW Engineering
Consultants, Rock Island, IL 
Newsletter - Internal
1st Place Perkins+Will,
Chicago, IL 
2nd Place Ware Malcomb, Irvine, CA 
3rd Place CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc, Boston, MA

Promotional Campaign
1st Place Jones Lang
LaSalle, Boston, MA 
2nd Place Nitsch Engineering, Boston, MA 
3rd Place, tie Hillier Architecture, Princeton, NJ

3rd Place, tie Degenkolb, San Francisco, CA 
Special Event
1st Place HMC
Architects, Ontario, CA 
1st Place Small Firm Elliott + Associates Architects,
Oklahoma City, OK 
2nd Place McCarthy Building Companies, San Francisco,
CA 
3rd Place Hnedak Bobo Group, Memphis, TN 
Specific Project Marketing
1st Place HGA
Architects, Minneapolis, MN 
2nd Place Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Los
Angeles, CA 
3rd Place HDR Architecture, Inc., Omaha, NE 
Target Market
1st Place Thompson, Ventulett,
Stainback & Associates, Atlanta, GA 
1st Place Small Firm Kinslow, Keith & Todd, Inc.,
Tulsa, OK 
2nd Place SmithGroup, Detroit, MI 
3rd Place HOK, St. Louis, MO 
Web Site
1st Place Studios
Architecture, San Francisco, CA (www.studiosarch.com)
1st Place Small Firm Design & Co., Inc., Carlisle,
MA (www.designandco.net)
2nd Place CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc, Boston, MA
(www.cbtarchitects.com)
3rd Place Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects,
Seattle, WA (www.oskaarchitects.com)