Valdes continues to honor the legacy of Silvan Larson who brought excellence, integrity, loyalty and the love of knowledge sharing to work each day. We are honored to recognize Senior Mechanical Engineer Robert Novak as this year’s Silvan Larson Excellence Award recipient. Congratulations Robert and we are grateful for your dedication, commitment, incredible attitude, and mentorship skills you bring to Valdes.
Valdes now has added Land Surveying to its list of professional licenses, which already includes Architecture, Professional Engineering, and Structural Engineering. This formalizes the growing Land Surveying department at the company and provides another important service that Valdes can offer its clients.
Valdes President Bob Valdes was recently recognized by Negocios Now as one of the Top 50 business leaders in the list of Who’s Who in Hispanic Business to celebrate the publication’s 15 years of covering Hispanic business. This award is timely as it precedes our 30th Anniversary in August, 30 years of Bob’s strong leadership and dedication to client satisfaction.
Valdes Director of Griffith Operations Maureen Foster Vasselli accepted the Safety Excellence Award during the Northwest Indiana Business RoundTable (NWIBRT) banquet held on May 12. In addition, Scott Gregory received the Outstanding Craft Persons Safety Leader Award and Brian Fordon received a Certificate of Appreciation. We’re proud of our team for their continued commitment to safety.
Valdes is proud to share that we have been awarded by Three Rivers Manufacturers' Association the Gold Award and Meritorious Performance Award for working without an OSHA recordable injury in 2021! A heartfelt thank you to each and every employee for committing to ensure that safety and quality are our top priority on every project, for every client.
Valdes is pleased to announce that Three Rivers Manufacturers' Association awarded us with the Gold Award and Meritorious Performance Award for working without an OSHA recordable injury in 2020!
"Valdes would like to thank each and every person for Planning and Working Safe each day!" Brian Fordon Director of Safety
Valdes is honored to share that Senior Project Manager Alan McCurdy’s article “Revamps and Retrofits: A Path to Evergreen Facilities” has not only been published in Chemical Engineering, but is the cover story for the December issue. Congratulations Alan!
This year Valdes recognizes Project Manager Phil Kompare with the prestigious Silvan Larson Excellence Award. Every year, Valdes recognizes a member of the team that embodies the excellence, integrity, loyalty, and immense love of knowledge that Silvan brought to work over his tenure. Phil exhibits many of these same qualities and it has been a pleasure to see his professional trajectory here at Valdes. Congratulations Phil!
Valdes Safety Director Brian Fordon accepted the prestigious Company of the Year Award along with Safety Excellence Award during the Northwest Indiana Business RoundTable (NWIBRT) banquet held on August 19. In addition, Chris Baccino received the Outstanding Craft Persons Safety Leader Award and Brian Fordon received a Certificate of Appreciation.
The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, otherwise known as the CREATE Program, hosted the Get On Board event and invited Valdes to present our capabilities during the April 29 Business Presentation Session. See Manager of External Affairs Jillian Garcia review our capabilities here at minute 25.
Valdes received its Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification from the City of Chicago. We look forward to supporting our clients and forming new partnerships on projects for the City of Chicago.
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Every year, Valdes recognizes a member of the team that embodies the excellence, integrity, loyalty, and immense love of knowledge that Silvan Larson brought to work over his tenure at Valdes. This year we recognize Principal Civil Structural Engineer Scott Nowinski with this prestigious award. Congratulations Scott and thank you for your exemplary work ethic and mentorship skills.
Valdes was included in the Chicago's Biggest Minority-Owned Businesses list published by Crain's Business Chicago on November 2, 2020. Valdes is the largest Hispanic MBE engineering firm on the list and the largest MBE engineering firm with a tradition of process engineering experience.
Valdes has been granted certification as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) under the Business Enterprise Program (BEP) within the Illinois Department of Central Management Services and is prepared to support our clients with their public sector projects within Illinois, especially projects within the Capital Development Board (CDB) portfolio.
At the most recent Diversity Alliance for Science GeoCluster Conference, Valdes was selected as one of the top eight companies for the innovative technologies it uses in its design process to save clients time and money. Valdes ultimately placed second overall in the competition.
Valdes was certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by The Supplier Clearinghouse of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and can support our clients' public sector work in California.
Valdes Safety Director Brian Fordon accepted the Northwest Indiana Business RoundTable (NWIBRT) Safety Excellence Award from Don Bull, NWIBRT Executive Committee Chairman and NIPSCO Director of Outage Management and Systems Engineering.
“This award is a direct result of everyone at Valdes making the effort each and every day to work safe. Our company’s dedication and success to safety was instrumental in receiving this award for the 6th consecutive year. Thank you to everyone on the Valdes Team,” said Brian Fordon, Director of Safety at Valdes.
At Valdes, safety is our first priority. Our teammates collaborated to discuss the importance of Process Safety Management (PSM) and the responsibility companies have to make every necessary effort to provide a safe working environment.
Read the full article here: Process Safety Management
Silvan Larson was a dedicated member of the Valdes team and each year this award is given to an employee that embodies his excellence, integrity, loyalty, and immense love of knowledge. The 2019 award winner is Valdes Manager of Document Control Jennifer Koenig seen here with the 2017 award winner Process Department Manager Dave Turnquist and 2018 award winner Senior Mechanical Engineer Jim Walker.
Valdes teammates come together to discuss the value of project management, as well as the key elements that make projects successful, no matter the industry.
Read the full article here: What Makes a Project Successful?
Thank you to our Valdes employees for taking time out of their day to meet with high school students and build bridges out of toothpicks and gummy drops. What a fun opportunity to interact with future engineers!
The Latin word for "engineer" means "to create." In honor of National Engineers Week, Valdes employees were encouraged to test their creativity by participating in a Mouse Trap Car Competition. Working together, our employees built race cars out of everyday household items... using only the spring on the mouse trap to power the car!
Members of Valdes braved the 15° weather and ran into Lake Michigan for the Chicago Polar Plunge. Thank you to our friends at ComEd for inviting us to join their team and raise money for the Special Olympics!
Valdes employee Cliff Tetrault attended the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) B31.1 Section Committee on Power Piping in New Orleans. During this meeting, he sat on the panel and discussed engineering standards for pipe stress analysis in the field. What an honor to be a part of this event!
We are pleased to announce that the Three Rivers Manufacturing Association awarded us with the Gold Award and Meritorious Performance Award for working without an OSHA recordable injury! Thank you to all our Valdes employees for ensuring quality and safety on every project, for every client.
We are honored to receive the ExxonMobil Merit Safety Award. With ZERO OSHA Recordables in the past 8 years and over 2,500,000 hours worked injury FREE, Valdes strives to continue this trend.
To spread more Holiday Cheer, Valdes employees collected and donated toys to the Chicago Toys for Tots. We hope the children are having fun with them!
Written by Valdes' Brandon Bell, P.E., a POWER Magazine Contributing Editor, the feature includes insight on how Valdes has been able to improve its total recordable injury rate, merge its safety and quality departments and make company investments to make the workplace safer.
