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ACEC National Recognition Award Winner 2025

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Clark Dietz  

Client: Clark Dietz is an established infrastructure engineering firm operating across six states. 

Target Audience: The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) hosts the Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA), an annual celebration of engineering excellence, honoring projects worldwide that demonstrate an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement, and value.  

Challenge: The EEA National Competition recognizes projects based on uniqueness and/or innovative application of new or existing techniques; future value to and enhancing public awareness/enthusiasm for the engineering profession; social, economic, and sustainable development considerations; complexity; and successful fulfillment of client/owner’s needs, including schedule and budget.

Solution: Following the success of the 2024 ACEC Award submission, Clark Dietz again asked Linda to work with their internal engineering team to develop a compelling narrative for the Stellantis Kokomo EV Plant Stormwater & Roadway Improvements Project responding to the EEA award criteria. Deliverables included Project Narrative and Executive Summary.

Services: project management, strategy, messaging + copywriting

Recognition: 2025 ACEC National Recognition Award Winner

HolcimUS

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HolcimUS (now Amrize)

Client: HolcimUS is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions including Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Solutions & Products.

Target Audience: architects, contractors, builders, developers, and building owners

Challenge: HolcimUS was redesigning its website and needed both copyediting and copywriting.

Solution: Linda provided copyediting for 34 pages and copywriting for 20+ pages following the company’s established Messaging Guide.

Services: project management, messaging + copywriting

 


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HolcimUS

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HolcimUS (now Amrize)

Client: HolcimUS is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, including Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Solutions & Products.

Target Audience: architects, contractors, builders, developers, and building owners  

Challenge: Holcim needed to build its portfolio of Noteworthy Projects featuring its sustainable product lines to support communications, marketing, and business development efforts. 

Solution: Linda proactively interfaced with HolcimUS internal stakeholders nationwide to gather data on identified projects to inform story development. Along with general project information, sustainability-related data points were the focus (i.e. tons of CO2 saved, etc.). Images for each project were also sourced.     

Services: project management, interviews, research + development, messaging + copywriting


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Project Management Advisors, Inc.

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Project Management Advisors, Inc.

Client: Project Management Advisors, Inc.(PMA) is a national real estate advisory firm that provides development and strategic consulting expertise within the built environment.

Target Audience: Commercial real estate owners

Challenge: Re-imagine the firm’s Qualifications Package to align with the updated messaging Linda created for the firm’s website. 

Solution: Linda created messaging + copywriting for the Core Qualifications piece including Project Case Studies. The digital format design allowed the firm’s six national offices to customize elements for each use based on market sector focus, specific project experience, and people featured.     

Services: messaging + copywriting

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ACEC National Recognition Award Winner 2024

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Clark Dietz

Client: Clark Dietz is an established infrastructure engineering firm operating across six states.

Target Audience: The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) hosts the Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA), an annual celebration of engineering excellence, honoring projects worldwide that demonstrate an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement, and value.

Challenge: The EEA National Competition recognizes projects based on uniqueness and/or innovative application of new or existing techniques; future value to and enhancing public awareness/enthusiasm for the engineering profession; social, economic, and sustainable development considerations; complexity; and successful fulfillment of client/owner’s needs, including schedule and budget.

Solution: Linda worked with Clark Dietz engineering team for the Evansville East Wastewater Treatment Plant Capacity Expansion (EEWTP), gathering and prioritizing abundant project data to develop a compelling narrative in response to the EEA award criteria. Deliverables included an Executive Summary, a 6-page Project Narrative, and a Press Release.

Services: project management, strategy, messaging + copywriting

Recognition: 2024 ACEC National Recognition Award Winner

Thought Leadership Campaign / Owned Media

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Thought Leadership Campaign

Client: Project Management Advisors, Inc.(PMA) is a national real estate advisory firm that provides development and strategic consulting expertise within the built environment.

Target Audience: Commercial real estate owners and organizations/institutions that own facilities

Challenge: The client envisioned a series of thought leadership content pieces to educate, inspire, and influence their target audiences and to establish itself as a leading expert on specific topics.

Solution: Linda worked with the client to outline the mission and objectives for the content campaign, including brand pillars and content categories. Internal subject matter experts (SMEs) were identified. Linda worked with each individually to develop an outline, research supporting documentation and reference material, and ghostwrite the article, typically for publication as owned media (website blog, LinkedIn). Linda also crafted LinkedIn posts providing introductions for the articles.

More than 30 pieces of thought leadership content were written over six years. Selected articles are featured below with additional titles available upon request.

Services: strategy, research + development, messaging + ghostwriting


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Commercial Property Executive

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Commercial Property Executive

Client: Project Management Advisors (PMA)

Challenge: article on California’s seismic retrofit mandates

Solution: Linda worked with subject matter experts (SME’s) from PMA and consulting engineering firm Tipping to write an article on challenges faced by commercial building owners in California to retrofit older structures that are highly vulnerable to seismic events per mandates in specific cities. Specifically, nonductile concrete buildings built before modern seismic codes established in the mid-1970s present significant life safety and resilience risks in the event of an earthquake because they are inflexible or brittle due to a lack of reinforcing steel. 

Publication: “Tackling California’s Seismic Retrofit Mandates” – Commercial Property Executive (2024)

Services: SME interviews, research + development, ghostwriting

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