Sherwin-Williams Now Accepting Impact Award Entry Submissions For Water And Wastewater Projects

Prestigious award honors outstanding projects featuring Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings

Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings is now accepting entry submissions for its annual Impact Award, which recognizes outstanding water and wastewater projects completed in North America. The Impact Award honors application contractors, specifiers and owners for excellence in delivering long-term asset protection for the wide array of systems and structures that make up North America’s water and wastewater infrastructure.

The 2019 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award will be presented at the Water Environment Federation’s Annual WEFTEC Conference and Exhibition, which takes place September 23-25 in Chicago.

Any new, restored and/or rehabilitated water-related structure that used Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings from January 1 through December 31, 2018, is eligible for the award. Such projects include water treatment, water storage, water transmission, sewer collection and wastewater treatment structures, and are not limited to highly visible structures.

“The commitment the water and wastewater industry demonstrates in protecting and preserving our planet’s most essential resource – water – is unrivaled. Contractors, specifiers and asset owners are not just concerned about their operations or bottom line. They’re committed to ensuring future generations have access to clean, safe drinking water,” said Murray Heywood, North America Market Manager, Water & Wastewater, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings. “We take great pride in honoring their contributions to enhancing public safety, protecting assets and extending infrastructure life with the Sherwin-Williams Impact Award.”

Applications for the prestigious award will be accepted June 17 through August 16, 2019, via the Sherwin-Williams website at https://protective.sherwin-williams.com/again/impact-award.htm.

An independent panel of respected water industry experts will determine winners. Judges will rate entries on the difficulty of the submitted project; challenges overcome by the participants; solutions provided to the owner; how satisfied the parties were of the outcome; and the overall uniqueness of the project.

The 2018 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award winners included:

• First Place:
  • HCI Industrial & Marine Coatings Inc., the city of The Dalles, Oregon, and engineering services provider CH2M Inc. won for their challenging restoration of a 3-million-gallon water storage tank. The project team had to ensure smoke from a nearby wildfire would not absorb into the interior tank coating and affect the taste of water stored in the tank.
• Co Runners-Up:
  • Cor-Ray Painting Co. applied coatings for the expansion of the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP) in San Diego, California, with Black & Veatch serving as construction manager and coatings inspector.
  • An in-house maintenance crew from Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Waterworks District No. 1 completed an intermediate restoration of a 1-million-gallon elevated water storage tank in Houma, Louisiana.
• Honorable Mention:
  • The 2018 honorable mention project covered extensive repairs and restorations performed for the Benton/Washington Regional Public Water Authority (BWRPWA) by Kimery Painting Inc. (KPI), with Crist Engineers Inc. serving as the project engineering firm.

For more information or to submit your project, visit https://protective.sherwinwilliams.com/again/impact-award.htm. Required submission information includes: project name and location; owner, specifier, coating inspector and contractor names; coating system(s) applied; date of project completion; the story/scope of the project; and a signed project release form.

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Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings delivers smart asset protection and unmatched commercial, technical and specification service to customers in a wide array of markets, including Oil & Gas, Water & Wastewater, Bridge & Highway, Steel Fabrication, Flooring, Food & Beverage, Mining, Rail, Marine, Power Generation and Fire Protection. From alkyds to zincs, Sherwin-Williams offers a complete line of time-tested, high-performance coatings and systems to combat corrosion, supported by the largest group of NACE-certified professionals in the industry. Our world-class product portfolio is backed by premier technology and innovation platforms, and includes a growing line of Global Core products available at the same quality and performance standard anywhere in the world, and delivered from over 4,600 company-owned North America locations across our rapidly growing international distribution footprint. The Protective & Marine Division is part of the Sherwin-Williams Performance Coatings Group, which supplies a broad range of highly-engineered solutions for construction, industrial, packaging and transportation markets in more than 120 countries in the world. Founded in 1866, The Sherwin-Williams Company is a global leader in the manufacture, development, distribution and sale of paints, coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial and retail customers. For more information, visit http://protective.sherwin-williams.com.