Awards

The American Council of Engineering Companies / MS (ACEC / MS) began its Engineering Excellence Awards Program in 1988. In 21 years of competition, NSI has won the Grand Conceptor Award six times; the Grand Award nine times, and the Honors Award seven times.

Grand Conceptor Award winning projects include:

• 2008 – O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant Expansion – Jackson
• 2007 – Design of the Popps Ferry Road Bridge Rehabilitation – Biloxi
• 2005 – Cogentrix Power Company Water Supply Project – Lowndes Co.
• 2003 – Riverview Parkway Improvements – Madison / Rankin Co.
• 2001 – SR 302 Germantown Road Interchange – Olive Branch
• 1988 – North Shore Access Road – Rankin Co.

NSI has been recognized in the Engineering News Record “Top 500 Design Firms” listings since 1994 and in the “Top 300 Design Firms” since 1998. NSI is the only Mississippi owned and operated firm to make this prestigious listing.

NSI won the coveted first place award in the 2007 Keep Mississippi Beautiful competition for development of a system to properly dispose of damaged appliances on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

In 2007, NSI was recognized as being among the top 40 fastest-growing privately held companies in Mississippi. This competition was jointly sponsored by the Mississippi Business Journal, and KPMG Peat Marwick.
NSI was listed by Roads & Bridges magazine as one of the top 50 road and highway design firms of 2007 in North America.

Also, in 2003, NSI was the proud recipient of the Mississippi Better Business Bureau and the Clarion Ledger’s Business Integrity Award.

ACEC has a peer review program. Member firms are reviewed in all areas of their practice by teams of trained principals from other firms. NSI has requested and received three peer reviews. This is an excellent indication of our commitment to quality as less than 100 firms out of 6,000 member firms have received three peer reviews.