VE GROUP, L.L.C.
, received national recognition, in three areas, at the AASHTO Value Engineering Conference in San Diego, California in July 2001 for its Value Engineering work with the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
The awards were for the “Most Cost Effective Proposal During Process Improvement” and “Most Innovative During Engineering” on the I-25/I-40 System Interchange “Big I” project in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The NMDOT also received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from FHWA.



Rais Rizvi, New Mexico State Highway & Transportation Department Value Engineer, shown left and Bill Ventry, President of Ventry Engineering, L.L.C. receiving the two AASHTO Awards at the AASHTO Value Engineering Conference in San Diego, California, July 2001

Rais Rizvi, New Mexico State Highway & Transportation Department Value Engineer, shown right and Bill Ventry, President of Ventry Engineering, L.L.C. receiving the 2001 Value Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award

 

 

Also at the 2001 AASHTO Value Engineering Conference in San Diego, California, VE Group, L.L.C. Again received recognition for its assistance to the Alabama Department of Transportation. The Award was the “Outstanding Achievement Award” given by the FHWA.


VE GROUP, L.L.C. , again received national recognition at the 2003 AASHTO Value Engineering Conference Tampa, Florida for its work with the Wisconsin DOT for the Value Engineering Study of its “Major Projects Program” (21 projects studied in three weeks)

On left is Bill Ventry, VE Group, L.L.C. shown with Pete Garcia, FHWA, Wisconsin Division Office





VE GROUP, L.L.C. , received recognition at the 2005 AASHTO Value Engineering Conference for assisting the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for winning the FHWA award for Outstanding Achievement in Value Engineering.


(Left to Right) Bill Ventry, Ventry Engineering; Dwight Horne, Director, FHWA Office of Program Administration; Richard Savoie, LADOTD VE Coordinator; Don Jackson, FHWA Value Engineer; and Scott Nelson, FHWA Division Value Engineer -- LADOTD receiving 2005 VE Outstanding Achievement Award-Category 3 at AASHTO Conference in San Francisco



VE GROUP, L.L.C. , again was recognized at the 2007 AASHTO Conference for assisting the Florida Department of Transportation District 3 in winning the “Most Value Added Proposal” for the VE Study of the Protection of US 98 on Okaloosa Island.
(Left to Right) Kurt Lieblong, Florida DOT State Value Engineer,
H.T. Waller, Florida DOT District Three Value Engineer and Bill Ventry, VE Group