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2008 NOVA Award Winners

The NOVA Award Jury selected five Winners of the 2008 NOVA Awards, which were presented at the NOVA Award Banquet on November 11, 2008. Click on the hyperlinks below to download the original nomination.
 

2

GOLDEN GATE SEISMIC RETROFIT

8

CONTROL OF FLYING DECK FORMS

10

OFFSHORE DECK SALVAGE SYSTEM

22

ELECTRIC TABLE FORMWORK LIFTING

33

BRICK AND MORTAR SAW

 

List of 2008 NOVA Award Nominations
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Click on the hyperlinks below to download the original nomination.)

1

ENERGY EFFICIENT AIR CONDITIONING

2

GOLDEN GATE SEISMIC RETROFIT

3

DYNAMIC PLANNING AND CONTROL

4

REBAR CAGE FABRICATION MACHINE

5

PORTABLE REBAR BENDER

6

SHOCK-ABSORBING CONCRETE

7

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCRETE WASHOUT

8

CONTROL OF FLYING DECK FORMS

9

REAL-TIME BIM/RFID PROJECT MANAGEMENT

10

OFFSHORE DECK SALVAGE SYSTEM

11

SUSTAINABLE ROOF GARDEN

12

SEISMIC PROTECTION SYSTEM

13

FIRE DEFENSE SYSTEM

14

UNIFIED CONSTRUCTION MODEL

15

MULTI-PURPOSE ENGINEERING VEHICLE

16

CEILING MODULE PANEL ERECTOR

17

3D LEAN INTEGRATED PROJECTS

18

THERMALLY ACTIVE BUILDING STRUCTURES

19

TRACK MULCHING VEHICLE

20

EMULATOR FOR BUILDING CONTROLS

21

INDUSTRIAL MODULAR DUCTWORK

22

ELECTRIC TABLE FORMWORK LIFTING

23

HIGH-STRENGTH LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE
24 OCEAN PARKWAY BELT BRIDGE

25

IN-LANE HIGHWAY CRACK SEALING
26

RAPID ACCESS PROTOTYPING

27 ELEVATED ROTATING WORK PLATFORM
28 3D LASER SCANNING
29 GREEN ROOFS FOR STORM WATER
30

OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK

31 POLLUTION CLEANING PAVING CONCRETE
32 ELECTRONIC PLAN ROOM
33 BRICK AND MORTAR SAW
34 BLAST-RESISTANT CONCRETE
35 ADVANCED CONCRETE FRAMEWORK

Viewing, Downloading, and Printing Nominations
Nominations are stored and downloaded as pdf files. You can view a nomination in your browser by clicking on its short-title, and you can print the nomination once it is in your browser. (You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print pdf files.)

To download and save a file on your disk drive, click on it in whatever manner works for your browser and operating system. (For example, in Internet Explorer 5 or 6, right click your mouse on the short-title and select "Save Target As" to download the file.) This will save the pdf file onto the disk drive and directory you specify, with the name you specify. (We recommend you retain the pdf suffix.) Nomination files are now named according to their number. For example, OFFSHORE DECK SALVAGE SYSTEM, which is Nomination 10, is file nom-2008-10.pdf.

You are welcome to distribute individual nominations or the entire set as computer files or in printed form. You may also photocopy nominations, but photocopying loses much of the detail, particularly in the graphics.

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Hold your own Nomination Screening Meeting
Any group is welcome to hold its own Nomination Screening Meeting to learn more about Nominations and innovations. Simply download the Score Sheet and Jury Notes below:

NOVA Award Nomination Score Sheet
Jury Notes for NOVA Award Nomination Screening

CIF Investigation Reports are prepared specifically for the NOVA Award and are not available for general use. 


 

 

 

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