You’re kidding? Right? Events Center engineering wins an award?

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With a pending lawsuit and a lien against the city for the botched siding job, cracked terrazzo floors and their ADA compliance into question they win an engineering award? WTF?

The South Dakota Engineering Society recently awarded the events center project its 2014 Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award, acknowledging the accomplishments of the engineering profession in South Dakota. The South Dakota Engineering Society each year recognizes engineering achievements that capture the innovative and dynamic spirit of a profession “dedicated to public service,” according to a news release.

The award nominees are judged on application of engineering principles, originality and innovation, complexity, social significance and economic impact.

Economic impact!? You mean the $10 million dollar mortgage we are stuck with from the CIP every year while SMG and other contractors cash in? This award must be some kind of sick joke.

Posted in: Event Center, Sioux Falls

8 Thoughts on “You’re kidding? Right? Events Center engineering wins an award?”

  1. The Daily Spin on May 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm said:

    Forgive them. These are the unqualified guys that drive trains, not the engineers that design roads and architecture. They’re grading the track that led to corruption and insurmountable debt.

  2. Ol'Bubbleguts on May 18, 2015 at 11:42 pm said:

    Every year.Seems fitting god punishing MyMisM folly
    rich peoples Babylon.
    I gave $1500 bucks to the only school here with
    the stipulation KIDS NOT ADMIN nice thank you letter
    didn’t even get a T-Shirt buahahahahaha

    OBG,..in Art and Labor

  3. Ol'Bubbleguts on May 18, 2015 at 11:48 pm said:

    Back on topic those arch/eng dudes don’t know wtf they are talking about.Admittedly there is not much to boast about here so I guess they had to pick something.
    Look for crowing & boasting from mistake by the lake.
    PROVEN RESULTS

    OBG
    In Art and Labor,… friggin spare me

  4. Poly43 on May 19, 2015 at 11:19 am said:

    The key words for why it was nominated has to be the words “economic impact”. Still baffles me tho. How can a country twanger show up on a Tuesday afternoon, perform that nite, leave the next morning with a million dollars never to be circulated again in SF, and still call it economic impact?

  5. The Guy from Guernsey on May 20, 2015 at 2:47 pm said:

    Gotta’ consider the competition.

    Even the most elegant of man-caves built throughout the countryside [as annexes to machine shops] on the heels of the most recent salad days of the grain markets are … simply pole buildings.

  6. The Guy from Guernsey on May 20, 2015 at 2:48 pm said:

    The Denny – erected as an homage to the heritage and traditions of grain production and storage across the plains.

  7. Taxpayer on May 22, 2015 at 1:29 pm said:

    The taxpayers were told Mortenson has one year to resolve the issue of the EC siding.

    L3wis, we must be getting close to that date. Do you know when that is?

  8. l3wis on May 22, 2015 at 1:56 pm said:

    August.

    Kenny Anderson was asked about this at Dem Forum today. He assured the audience there would be an answer before then.

    Personally, I am not holding my breath. I think it will never get fixed.

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