PMI Honors Project of the Year, Others

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Overcoming complex safety and regulatory challenges to finish six months before deadline and millions under budget, a high-stakes chemical weapons destruction effort has received the 2012 Project of the Year Award from the Project Management Institute.

The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Operations Project, an initiative completed by engineering giant URS Corporation, has been honored by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as the winner of its prestigious PMI Project of the Year Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of a project team for superior performance, exemplary project management execution and innovation in project management processes.

Agility, risk management, communication and leadership are critical components of any high complexity project, especially when 7.4 million pounds of chemical agents are at stake. With the entire world watching, URS Corporation took on a project at the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (Hermiston, Oregon) to help the United States Army-owned facility comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty. This treaty, signed by 187 other countries, mandated that those countries with declared chemical weapons must have their stockpile destroyed by 29 April 2012.

“High stakes, high complexity and enormous risk made this project a unique challenge where success was non-negotiable,” said …

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