Awards
Polk Works awards Madrid Engineering Group "Best Places to Work" 2010 Award Winner
The Best Places to Work Award, sponsored by Polk Works WorkForce 2020, recognizes companies in Polk County who are taking the lead in developing quality workplaces to ensure their competitiveness for a skilled workforce. The ranking of the best companies will boast the innovative workplaces that improve the quality of life for employees and their families. Madrid Engineering Group, Inc. is among the few awards winning companies recognized as being the most innovative in the areas of motivation and retention of employees, training and development initiatives and workplace practices which include commitment to work/life issues. Each year, the companies that excel in meeting the challenges of the changing workforce with innovation and commitment will be honored as one of the Best Places to Work.
Hispanic Business 2011
Madrid Engineering Group, Inc. ranked 21st on the 100 fastest frowing companies in Hispanic Business Journal.
Madrid Engineering Makes Tampa Bay Business Journal's Fast 50 List!
We are pleased to announce our company is a list-maker for the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2010 Fast 50 Awards!
Larry Madrid Inducted into the Academy of Geo-Professionals, 2010
The Academy of Geo-Professional (AGP), held its third induction ceremony on February 21st in West Palm Beach, FL at the Geo-Florida 2010 Geotechnical Conference. During the event, Larry Madrid, MSc, PE, D.GE was inducted in the ceremony; he is one of only 160 geotechnical engineers worldwide with this designation. Over 30 engineers were inducted with the Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE) credential. Qualifications include at least 8 years (post-licensure) in the geotechnical field, a P.E., and a Masters or equivalent.
"Specialty certification provides an advanced certificate of achievement, which greatly enhances the engineer's career development. It also gives the public further confidence in the competence of our geo-professionals" said Arlan Rippe, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, AGP president.
The AGP is an independent organization that is associated with the ASCE GeoInstitute, the Deep Foundations Institute and other professional organizations.
Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in Florida 2010 – DiversityBusiness.com
Ridge Branch Engineer of the Year 2009
Larry Madrid named one of South Florida's Mover & Shakers 2009
Business Leader Media has honored Larry Madrid as an up-and-coming business leader in South Florida at its annual Movers & Shakers awards. Winners were honored at a ceremony on November 16, 2009 at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa, and will be featured in the November issue of Business Leader magazine.
DiversityBusiness.com
A multicultural e-business solutions company, has named Madrid Engineering Group, Inc. to one of the Top 100 Diversity-Owned Businesses in Florida (#64) as well as one of the Top 500 Hispanic American Owned Businesses in the U.S. (#271).
This is the 9th annual listing of the State's and Nation's top businesses by DiversityBusines.com. The companies listed on the Top Business Lists represent the Nation's top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a privately held business is small or insignificant. Winners are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with small businesses. “Entrepreneurs are a growing force in the U.S. economy, and a force to be reckoned with,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. This is a whole business segment that can carry its own, that provides jobs, products and services, and generates wealth for their communities. These are the new leaders in American business.”
OUTGOING SBA 8(a) COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Madrid Engineering Group, Inc. (MEG) was awarded the top graduating 8(a) company by the US Small Business Administration South Florida office in Miami. As part of this selection, MEG was nominated for the national award, given at a ceremony in Washington DC. The 8(a) program is a business development program that allows small businesses to have more opportunities to obtain federal government contracts. MEG was in particular singled out for its innovations in the area of chemical stabilization of waste phosphatic clay, known as PhosphoCrete, and its patented process to significantly reduce phosphate from stormwater runoff and non-point source pollution, called Phos-Filter.