Awards & Recognition

HELIX Environmental Planning (HELIX) has received local, state, and national recognition for our contributions to a variety of projects as well as our workplace practices, wellness programs for employees, and sustainable efforts in the community.

 

Recent awards and recognition for HELIX include:

  • Best Firms to Work For by ZweigGroup in 2023 (2nd place in the environmental category for firms across the U.S. and Canada, and 7th place across the AEC industry for our size category)
  • ACEC California 2020 Engineering Excellence Honor Awards - HELIX was recognized for a significant role in support of awarded prime consultants for the following projects:
    •  I-5 Genesee Improvements
    •  Upas Street Pipeline Replacement
  •  APWA Sacramento Award for 2019 Project of the Year
    • Historical Restoration/Preservation Category: Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District’s (Regional San) Nicolaus Dairy Repurposing Project
    • Parks & Trails Category: City of Elk Grove and City of Sacramento’s Lower Laguna Creek Open Space Preserve Trail Project
  • AEP San Diego Award for 2018 Outstanding Technical Report for the Sweetwater Vistas Project Biological Technical Report
  • Top 100 Hot Firm List by Zweig Group in 2018
  • Zweig Group 10 Best Environmental Firms to Work For in 2018
  • ASCE Outstanding Flood Management Project Award 2018 for the City of San Diego Chollas Creek Watershed Project
  • Calmentor 2017 Award for Outstanding Performance
  • Best Firms to Work For by ZweigGroup in 2016
  • Del Mar Fair 2016 Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show Exhibit:
    -2nd Place Overall, Small Professional Landscape Exhibits
    -Cuyamaca College, Botanical Society Award
    -San Diego Horticultural Society, Excellence in Horticulture Award
    -Master Gardener Association of San Diego County, Earth Friendly Garden Award
  • San Diego Business Journal’s 2016 Healthiest Companies, Finalist
  • 2015 APA California Planning Award of Merit for Innovation in Green Community Planning for the Inyo County General Plan Amendment and Programmatic Environmental Impact Report
  • 2015 APWA San Diego/Imperial Chapters Project of the Year Award for the Ted Williams Parkway Overcrossing Project
  • APA California Central Chapter, 2015 Planning Award of Merit for Innovation in Green Community Planning for Inyo County Renewable Energy General Plan Amendment
  • APA California San Diego Chapter, 2015 Transportation Planning Award for the City of San Diego Bicycle Master Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)
  • American Heart Association, 2015 Fit Friendly Worksite Platinum Achievement
  • APWA San Diego and Imperial Chapters, 2015 Project of the Year, City of San Diego Ted Williams Parkway Overcrossing at Shoal Creek Drive Project, HELIX Environmental Planning and the City of San Diego
  • American Society of Landscape Architects, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and the United States Botanic Garden, HELIX Headquarters Landscape Conversion Project certified in 2015 under the national Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) program for sustainable land planning, design, construction and maintenance
  • AEP California San Diego Chapter, 2014 Award for Meritorious Outstanding Environmental Analysis Document for the County of San Diego Campus Park West EIR
  • CalMentor, 2014-2015 Calmentor Outstanding Performance, for the mentorship of GE Permit and Tierra Data
  • CalMentor, 2015-2016 Calmentor Outstanding Performance, for the mentorship of Paleo Solutions
  • ZweigWhite, 2014 Best Firms to Work For
  • AEP California, 2013 Award for Outstanding Environmental Resource Document, Ocotillo Wind Project
  • Caltrans, Architectural and Engineering 2014 Prime Contractor of the Year Award
  • NAEP, 2013 National Environmental Excellence Award for NEPA Excellence, State Route 11 and the Otay Mesa East Port of Entry