Recipients of 2003 National Marketing Communications Awards Announced

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. This year's MCA recipients are:

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Advertising
1st Place-Ellerbe Becket, Minneapolis, MN
2nd Place-Atwell-Hicks Inc., Brighton, MI
3rd Place-Morley Builders, Santa Monica, CA
Small Firm-Geotechnics Incorporated, San Diego, CA

Annual Report
1st Place-Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2nd Place-HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, MO
3rd Place-URS Corporation, New York, NY

Book/Monograph
1st Place-Fanning / Howey Associates, Celina, OH
2nd Place-Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects,
Seattle, WA
3rd Place-Turner Construction Company, New York, NY

Brochure
1st Place-Hardesty & Hanover LLP, New York, NY
2nd Place-J.E. Dunn Construction, Kansas City, MO
3rd Place-5IFTH FLOOR, Bellevue, WA
Small Firm-Vantage Technology Consulting Group, Manhattan Beach, CA

Corporate Identity
1st Place-Kirksey, Houston, TX
2nd Place-5IFTH FLOOR, Bellevue, WA
3rd Place-Dahlin Group Inc., San Ramon, CA
Small Firm-EPT Design, San Juan Capistrano, CA

Direct-Mail Campaign
1st Place-Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects,
Seattle, WA
2nd Place-EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, FL
3rd Place-Progressive AE, Grand Rapids, MI
Small Firm-Crosby Group, Redwood City, CA

Feature Writing
1st Place-Harriman Associates, Auburn, ME
2nd Place-The Flintco Companies Inc., Tulsa, OK
3rd Place-EYP Mission Critical Facilities Inc., New York, NY
Small Firm-Team Marketing Inc., Great Falls, VA

Holiday
1st Place-Figg Engineering Group, Tallahassee, FL
2nd Place-Shannon & Wilson Inc., Saint Louis, MO
3rd Place-Eppstein Uhen Architects Inc., Milwaukee, WI

Internal Communications
1st Place-URS Corporation, New York, NY
2nd Place-Arup, New York, NY
3rd Place-Pinnacle One, Tempe, AZ
Small Firm-Kenneth Boroson Architects, New Haven, CT

Magazine
1st Place-Arup, New York, NY
2nd Place-Gensler, San Francisco, CA

Multimedia and 3-D Design
1st Place-HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, MO
2nd Place-Turner Construction Company, New York, NY
3rd Place-Yolles, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Small Firm-Copley Wolff Design Group, Boston, MA

Newsletter - External
1st Place-Skanska USA Building Inc., Parsipanny, NJ
2nd Place-The Beck Group, Tampa, FL
3rd Place-William A. Berry & Son Inc., Danvers, MA

Newsletter - Internal
1st Place-Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering P.C., Albany, NY
2nd Place-Arup, New York, NY

Promotional Campaign
1st Place-HDR, Omaha, NE
2nd Place-Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Inc.,
San Francisco, CA

Special Event
1st Place-Hnedak Bobo Group, Memphis, TN
2nd Place-Arup, New York, NY
3rd Place-Pepper Construction Group, Chicago, IL

Specific Project Marketing
1st Place-JSA Inc., Portsmouth, NH
2nd Place-HDR, Omaha, NE
3rd Place-Kirksey, Houston, TX

Target Market
1st Place-Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, Honolulu, HI
2nd Place-Gould Evans, Kansas City, MO
3rd Place-Konover Construction Corporation, Farmington, CT

Web Site
1st Place-ADD Inc., Cambridge, MA
2nd Place-TMP Associates Inc., Bloomfield Hills, MI
3rd Place-Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects,
Seattle, WA
Small Firm-Loris and Associates Inc., Boulder, CO

First-place winners in all categories are considered for the Best of Show Award. Representatives from major national trade publications and media leaders judged the entries eligible for Best of Show during the 2003 SMPS/PSMA National Conference in Phoenix, and this winner was announced at the Awards Gala on August 14. In addition, all MCA winners are eligible for the People's Choice Award. Winning MCA entries were displayed at the conference, and conference attendees were invited to vote for their favorite. These winners will be announced on the SMPS web site in mid-August and in the October issue of Marketer.

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 Mike Savage, vice president of Geotechnologies Inc. in Glendale, CA. Also on the committee were:

• 2004 MCA Chair Donna Corlew, CPSM, director of marketing for Gould Turner Group, Nashville, TN
  
• Andrea C. Fitch, director of marketing for HITT Contracting Inc., Fairfax, VA
  
• Thomas Smith Jr., AICP, FSMPS, president of Bonterra Consulting, Costa Mesa, CA
  
• Kimberly F. Tanouye, director of business development for Englekirk Partners Consulting Structural Engineers Inc., Los Angeles, CA
  
• Donald J. Tuttle, director of business development for MulvannyG2 Architecture, Bellevue, WA
  
• Lyn Hogan, director of communications at Gensler Architecture Design & Planning Worldwide, San Francisco, CA
  
• SMPS National Secretary-Treasurer Karen Courtney, AIA, FSMPS, director of marketing for BSA LifeStructures, Indianapolis, IN.