Three IMEG projects received awards at the annual Dallas Preservation Achievement Awards.  

The awards honor outstanding projects that preserve, rehabilitate, and enhance Dallas-area historic structures and neighborhoods.  

The Gospel Lighthouse Church 

The Gospel Lighthouse Church in Oak Cliff, Texas, received an Achievement Award in the institutional Building Restoration Projects category.  

The church and a second adjacent building were built in 1948 for a tent revival preacher turned radio and TV evangelist. Nonprofit Dream Center Dallas now owns the building, which it renovated to support the organization’s ministry working to reduce homelessness, hunger, poverty, human trafficking, and other issues.  

IMEG provided structural and civil engineering for the project, which was recently featured on BD+C’s website.  

Harwood Park 

Harwood Park received an Achievement Award in the Historic Park or Landscape Restoration Project category. 

Harwood Park is a 4-acre urban park that links downtown Dallas with Deep Ellum. Design and play structures drew inspiration from Columbian mammoths that roamed the plains of North Texas 12,000 years ago.  

IMEG provided structural engineering for renovations of the existing buildings incorporated into the urban park. The project previously won an ENR Texas & Louisiana Award of Merit in the Landscape/Urban Development category. 

The Tower Building at Fair Park 

The Tower Building at Fair Park received the Gail Thoma Patterson Award, a special recognition award that honors a project for the highest level of restoration, carried out to original detail. The Tower Building at Fair Park was built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exhibition’s U.S. Government pavilion and features a gilded fluted tower topped by a gilded eagle.  

IMEG provided structural and civil engineering design and surveying services that included stabilizing and repairing the building envelope and repairing significant differential foundation settlement.