Fluor Enterprises and Newmont Nevada Energy International Ltd. win PMI’s most coveted award, Project of the Year.

Video: Project of the Year Winner

The best of the best in project management were celebrated Saturday night during PMI’s annual awards ceremony held during the PMI^® Global Congress—North America in Orlando, Florida, USA.

One of the night’s most anticipated awards, PMI’s Project of the Year, was presented to Fluor Enterprises Inc. and Newmont Nevada Energy Investment Ltd. for their work on a state-of-the-art power plant in rural Nevada, USA.

Faced with a dearth of skilled talent and the threat of increased environmental regulation, the team brought the project in under budget and 10 weeks early.

David Constable, group president at Fluor Corp., said the project shows the power of a unified team.

“What made [the project] such a great success was the people and the true teamwork between Fluor and Newmont,” he says.

PMI also honored seven new PMI Fellows during the ceremony:

• • Iain Fraser, PMP
• • James M. Gallagher, PMP
• • Lee R. Lambert, PMP
• • Deborah O’Bray
• • Karen Tate, PMP
• • Vijay Kumar Verma, PMP
• • Karen R.J. White, PMP

“I was near tears, I almost broke down, so I think it must have meant a lot to me,” Mr. Lambert said.

Other honored recipients include:

• • PMI Component of the Year Awards:
• • Chapter Category II: PMI France SUD Chapter and PMI Mumbai Chapter
• • Chapter Category III: PMI Central Virginia Chapter
• • Chapter Category IV: PMI Mile Hi Chapter
• • Specific Interest Group (SIG) Category: PMI Information Services Specific Interest Group (PMI ISSIG)
• • PMI Component Leadership Awards:
• • Chapter Category: Girish Kelkar, president, PMI Pune-Decan India Chapter
• • SIG Category: Thangavel Subbu, PMP, 2008 SIG Chair, ISSIG
• • PMI Educational Foundation Awards:
• • Donald S. Barrie Award: Utilizing a Project Profile Matrix to Determine Project Management Requirements, Chad Josey and Kenric England
• • James R. Snyder International Student Paper of the Year Award—North America Region: A Final Project Report: Utilizing PMBOK^® Project Management Areas to Produce a Play and Discover a Gym, by Laura M. Sherrick
• • PMI David I. Cleland Literature Award: Managing Complex Projects: A New Model, Kathleen B. Hass, PMP
• • PMI Community Advancement through Project Management Award (individual category): Tim M. Mattimoe, PMP
• • PMI Continuing Professional Education Provider of the Year Awards:
• • Individual/Business Provider Category: Project Management: A Master Course in the Multidisciplinary Approach of Planning and Implementing Projects, Cadence Management Corp.
• • Corporate/Government/Association Category: Project Management Curriculum, IBM
• • PMI Continuing Professional Education Product of the Year Awards:
• • Individual/Business Provider Category: Seminar on Effective Project Management (SAEP), Alpha Consultoria
• • Corporate/Government/Association Category: Mayday, Mayday Workshop, Eurobank S.S.
• • PMI Research Achievement Award: Jeffrey K. Pinto, PhD
• • PMI Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award: Project Portfolio Control and Portfolio Management Performance in Different Contexts, Ralf Muller, PMP, Tomas Blomquist, PhD, Miia Maarit Martinusu
• • PMI Distinguished Contribution Awards:
• • Lung-Hung Roger Chou, PgMP
• • Larry Goldsmith, PMP
• • Timothy A. MacFayden, PMP
• • Beth Ouellette, PgMP, PMP
• • Mark R. Paden
• • Frank R. Parth, PMP
• • Cynthia Snyder Stackpole, PMP
• • Doug Treasure, PMP
• • PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award:
• • Upendra Giri
• • Peter Mello, SpS, PMP
• • PMI Distinguished Project Awards:
• • Final Manufacturing Organization IT & Manufacturing Partnership, Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
• • PMI Region 5 Volunteers, PMI Baltimore Chapter Inc.

The ceremony, hosted by Ricardo Viana Vargas, PMP, chair of the PMI Board of Directors and Eugene Bounds, vice chair of the PMI Board of Directors, included several performances by Cirque Odyssey.

Learn more about all of PMI’s professional awards.