As a project award, it recognizes the team effort of all the engineers involved in completion of the project.
As of 2005, sponsored project awards to Dartmouth faculty research amounted to $169 million.
The first project awards were made in 1985, all for privately owned sites.
Most of the packages has been awarded at this point with the project awards will be completed by end 2012.
There have been three rounds of project awards after city requests for proposals, two in 1985 and one last year, for a total of 46 projects.
Each project award is $100,000 dollars and is drawn from a Foundation funding pool of $100 million.
The members have won more project awards in more categories then any other school in the state of Florida.
As a project award, it recognizes the team effort of the engineer, the architect, the contractor, and the owner involved in completion of the project.
In 2006, they received 15 national and regional project awards and recognitions.
In all the schools studied, project awards were made in response to an appropriate set of circumstances and events.