Parsons Employee Wins Engineer of the Year Award

PASADENA, CA (March 31, 2016) – Parsons is pleased to announce that it was named Consultant of the Year at the Oman Construction Week Awards 2016 held on March 28 in Muscat. In addition, Parsons’ Kashinath Thodupunoori won the Engineer of the Year Award. The annual Construction Week Oman Awards recognize and reward individual excellence, corporate prowess, sustainable efforts, and project success.

“Parsons is honored to receive this Construction Week award and to have a team member selected as Engineer of the Year,” said Gary Adams, Parsons Group President. “This recognition reflects greatly on our team of talented people in Oman.”

Two other Parsons entries were shortlisted: Vladimir Opricovic was shortlisted for Program Manager of the Year, and the Farq-Marfaa Daris Road Dualization project was shortlisted for Infrastructure Project of the Year.

Parsons has been involved in the infrastructure development of Oman for more than 25 years and has worked on over 400 projects in Oman in the last 10 years alone. Parsons has been working in the Middle East Africa region for more than 60 years and has offices in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Bahrain. Parsons’ portfolio of ongoing work in the region includes major oil and gas projects as well as highways, bridges, rail and transit, airports, ports, water infrastructure, plus hospitals, public schools, universities, mosques, and other public buildings.