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22 Hartford Business Journal • March 14, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com OF NOTE CT FLOWER & GARDEN LANDSCAPE SHOW AWARDS LOCAL BUSINESSES The top landscape awards of the 2016 Connecticut Flower & Garden Show were recently announced at the 35th annual show at the Connecticut Convention Center. The top three 2016 design awards included: Best of Show, AquaScapes of Connecticut LLC of Portland; Best Horticulture Award, Earth Tones Native Plant Nursery & Landscaping of Woodbury; and Best Design Award, Hillside Landscaping Co. of Berlin. • • • AMENTA EMMA ARCHITECTS RECEIVES DESIGN AWARDS Three projects from Hartford-based Amenta Emma Architects recently received top awards at the International Interior Design Association New England Design Awards. The awards included: Best in State, for the firm's design work on the CREC Discovery Academy in Wethersfield, which opened last September; Best Office Design, for the new 70,000-square-foot corpo- rate headquarters of New York-based Xylem; and Best in Healthcare, for the redesign of 20,635 square feet of space at Reproductive Medicine Associates of CT, which has offices in Danbury, Trumbull, Norwalk and Stamford. • • • WRIGHT-PIERCE RECOGNIZED FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CT WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY Wright-Pierce of Middletown has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies' 49th annual Engineering Excellence Awards for upgrading the Mattabasset District Water Pollution Control Facility in Cromwell. The upgrade replaced aging processes, equipment and building sys- tems with modern efficient technology, which qualified for more than $1 million in energy rebate grants from the electric utility. • • • UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS RECOGNIZES ENGINEERS OF THE YEAR UTC Aerospace Systems and the Hartford chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers honored two Distinguished Engineers of the Year, including David Anderson, Pratt's chief engineer on the Boeing 787, and Mark Zaffetti, Pratt's principal engineer on space systems. Both engineers were recognized for their dedication to UTC Aerospace Systems principles of people, integrity, ideas and performance. Please Note: All electronic submissions for Accolades should be sent to news@HartfordBusiness.com. For more information about the Hartford Business Journal's Accolades Page, please visit www.HartfordBusiness.com. ▶ ▶ To celebrate National Reading Month and Dr. Seuss' birthday, Amazon surprised students, teachers and staff at Windsor's Poquonock Elementary School with a birthday party for the author. The surprise included a hardback copy of a Dr. Seuss classic for every one of the school's 300 students to take home and a read-along led by Eric Powell, general manager of the Amazon Windsor Fulfillment Center. Pictured are Poquonock Elementary students receiving free Dr. Seuss books. ▶ ▶ East Hartford's Pratt & Whitney Hangar recently hosted the 2016 Special Olympics Connecticut Winter Games floor hockey contests. More than 40 Pratt & Whitney employees, family members and friends worked to set up and host the venue. Pratt & Whitney was a bronze sponsor of the Connecticut Special Olympics Winter Games and has hosted the floor-hockey competition at the Pratt & Whitney Hangar since 1998. BOB'S DISCOUNT FURNITURE SUPPORTS PAJAMA PROGRAM AMAZON DONATES DR. SEUSS CLASSICS TO ELEMENTARY STUDENTS PRATT & WHITNEY HOSTS SPECIAL OLYMPICS CT WINTER GAMES ▶ ▶ Bob's Discount Furniture recently presented a $60,000 check to the Pajama Program, a national children's charity, as part of its Café Collections for a Cause initiative. Bob's Outreach Director Cathy Poulin dressed up as the Cat in the Hat and read the classic children's book to children in the program, and gave them each their own book and hat. The donation will translate into 4,500 new pajamas and 4,500 new books for children. Pictured (from left) are: Genevieve Piturro, Pajama Program executive director; and Cathy Poulin, Bob's Discount Furniture outreach director, with children in the Pajama Program. Pictured (from left) are: Scott Walowski, Steve Walowski and John Wilcox, owners of Hillside Landscaping Co. ACCOLADES & MORE