Finalist -- Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Award

The Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Award was established to recognize excellence in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) field. This award provides an exciting and unique way for end user organizations to share their ECM project implementations with their peers and for ECM solution providers to showcase the ROI that their solutions can achieve.

Geometrica submitted their entry based upon the use of a wiki to implement a ISO9001 Quality Management System, and further develop it into a full knowledge management system.  The company now also uses its wiki for information sharing with clients, suppliers and potential clients. Geometrica’s entry has garnered them a finalist position in the Small Company Category (100 employees or less). Wikis are a new tool for effective collaboration in document creation and editing. Geometrica has found that using a wiki enables the experts in the organization – the wiki users – to read, edit and maintain documents right at points of use.

AIIM is the organization that provides education, research and best practices to help companies find, control, and optimize their information.  The winners of the award are picked by the international membership of AIIM and will be announced at the annual awards ceremony banquet on April 20, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.  For more information on the award, see the AIIM press release.

2009 ISO 9001 Certification

After 9 months of developing a wiki-based Quality Management System, Geometrica was visited by BSI personnel and successfully passed the ISO 9001:2008 auditing process. By implementing the QMS through wiki, the certification was achieved in a minimal time and proved that this ground-breaking approach to quality systems taken by the company was the best option. A paper Using a wiki to implement a QMS was written to explain the steps for the implementation. It has been published in several journals and websites that understand the enormous contribution of a wiki for such an endeavor.

2007  Marchwood "Jewel in the Crown"

Geometrica provided the structure for the Veolia Environmental Services Marchwood, UK facility.  Veolia's CEO Denis Gasquet called the facility the "jewel in Veolia's crown", and a major achievement among the 50 incinerators it runs accross Europe. It was also described by Veolia's UK chief executive Jean-Dominique Mallet as a "unique, state-of-the-art facility". The architect for this remarkable dome is Jean Robert Mazaud of S'Pace in Paris, France.

2006 Safety Certificate - Bateman / Lafarge

Geometrica was granted a Safety Certificate for contributing in achieving 50,000 man hours accident-free on the Lafarge Limestone Stockpile Domes Project. The certificate was issued by both Lafarge Cement and Bateman.

2005. Safety recognition from Nemak Corp. 

Geometrica's commitment to safety was acknowledged by Nemak for not having any accidents while building the Nemak structures.

2002. JEA receives Powerplant Award from Power Magazine

Geometrica provided the dome structures for the JEA project, which received the prestigious Powerplant Award for outstanding achievement in the development of a successful repowering strategy for converting existint oil/gas-fired steam plants to solid fuels to increase efficiency while reducing both emissions and the cost of electricity.

2001. Houston One Hundred Fastest Growing Private Companies. 

Geometrica's fast-pace development of technology and business were recognized by the University of Houston with this prestigious award only given to the fastest growing companies in Houston.

1998 First Place in Structural Design contest from CEMEX and the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry.

Geometrica achieved the first place on the yearly Structural Design contest organized by CEMEX and the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry.

1997 National Steel Award and CNIC Award

Geometrica was awarded the 1997 National Steel Award in the category: Industrial Use of Steel for the structural design and construction of multiple manufacturing facilities for Nemak. Approximately 150 km of galvanized tubing and 30 thousand connectors were used in the construction of each dome. Spans of 224m column-free in their major axis, make them the longest industrial domes in the world.

Geometrica was also destinguished with the 1997 Mexico CNIC Award (Premio de la Cámara Nacional de la Industria de la Construcción) for the structural design of it's Nemak manufacturing facilities. Each dome coveres an area of 17,900m2 with no internal supports and are the record holders for being the longest industrial dome enclosures in the world.