McMullan Project Wins Top Honors Exhibit Award

On September 30, it was formally announced that the SNZP Bird House Revitalization earned the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ (AZA) Top Honors Exhibit Award for Operating Budget Over $8M.

In AZA’s official press release announcing the winners of its 2025 Honors and Awards, the associated stated that a “record 110 applications were submitted across all award categories, with 40 projects selected for recognition at AZA’s Annual Conference in Tampa, Fla., from September 13-18. 

‘These awards recognize the outstanding efforts of our members,’ said Dan Ashe, president and CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. “As the world evolves, AZA-accredited member facilities continue to innovate and adapt to the changing needs of the animals in their care, their visitors, and their surrounding communities. This year’s award winners showcase excellence throughout the field and are essential to advancing our mission. Congratulations to all the honorees!’”

AZA’s Honors and Awards recognize the excellence, innovation, and impact of AZA-accredited members across the zoo and aquarium community. Every year, at the AZA Annual Conference, facilities are recognized for their outstanding achievements in animal care and wellbeing, education, conservation, research, diversity, and more. 
Our congratulations to the entire project team, led by Quinn Evans Architects with construction delivered by Grunley Construction Company.

McMullan Project Named NCSEA Structural Engineering Excellence (SEE) Awards Finalist

Today, McMullan received official word that our project for the C&O Canal Locks 3 & 4 Rehabilitation has been selected as a Finalist in the Non-Building Structures Category for the NCSEA 2025 Structural Engineering Excellence (SEE) Awards. One winner in each of the 10 categories will be named as the “Outstanding Structure.”

The Outstanding Structure for each category will be announced prior to the 2025 NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit slated for October 2025 in New York City at the annual NCSEA Summit. So, stay tuned!

McMullan Principal Doug Bond, PE, SE states, “We are delighted to have been selected as a finalist for this award. The Locks 3&4 project was an interesting and challenging project to work with the National Park Service on rehabilitating these unusual historic canal structures that contain operating timber miter gates that control the flow of water through the locks.”

For more details about this project, please click on the hyperlink above as highlighted in bold.

Welcome the 2025 Year!

As we approach the challenges to the construction industry coming from the new administration, we look forward to working through those over the next year.

We are thankful... for our whole team at McMullan (a message from Principals Colleen Nasta, PE and Doug Bond, PE, SE)

Each day this past week, we have taken a few moments to express the gratitude we have for our clients and teaming partners along with highlighting some of our achievements. Today, it is only befitting for us to extend the same measure of appreciation, if not more so, for every member of the McMullan team.

Whereas 2020 presented us all with unique challenges, 2021 brought forward aspects of resiliency and adaptability that have inspired and left us in awe as owners. We are extremely fortunate to have colleagues who continually bring forward a tremendous level of positivity and commitment coupled with ingenuity and creativity to make each project, engagement, and fellow colleague all the better for the experience of such.

Together, we smile through adversity. We laugh. We learn, share insights, and even sample the cuisines of our heritages and cultures. We remain focused and determined. Most importantly, we collectively help one another keep family, friends, and our own well-being first and foremost. No one at McMullan is alone, and we remain here for one another, however and whenever needed.

All that is quite a bounty of blessings for which we remain honored and give our many thanks for each of you. We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, including those you hold near and dear,

McMullan Principals Colleen Nasta, PE and Doug Bond, PE, SE

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We are thankful... Valley Health Warren Memorial Hospital Ribbon Cutting & Opening

This next “We are thankful… ” series showcase celebrates the ribbon cutting ceremony held in June to mark the official opening of Valley Health’s Warren Memorial Hospital. On the morning of June 8, Valley Health and community leaders gathered to dedicate the nonprofit health system’s new $100-million Warren Memorial Hospital in Front Royal. The replacement facility fully opened for service on June 23.

In a press release issued in advance of the ceremony, Valley Health stated that the three-story hospital with adjoining medical building commands a 28-acre developed campus on a slope with stunning views of the Shenandoah Valley, offering a refreshing patient-centered environment for wellness and healing.

“This is an exciting day for Valley Health, but, more importantly, for residents of the Front Royal-Warren County area,” said Valley Health President and CEO Mark Nantz. “I commend the Valley Health Board of Trustees for their commitment to invest in this site and this remarkable, technologically-advanced facility, and I thank all who have supported our efforts to reach this point. We look forward to many more years of serving our community by improving health from this inspiring location.”

Over the course of nearly 30 months, McMullan provided structural engineering services in collaboration with Perkins+Will who led the full design team. Howard Shockey & Sons Construction was the general contractor.

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