Call for Awards

The 2010 Call for Awards is now closed. We encourage you to submit for the 2011 Conference which will open after the 2010 conference.

The five Awards will be presented on Monday, June 7, 2010 during the International Bridge Conference®.

  • John A. Roebling Medal (Sponsored by Roads and Bridges Magazine)
    To be awarded for lifetime achievement in bridge engineering. Major achievements may include design, construction, research or educational endeavors.
  • George S. Richardson Medal (Sponsored by Roads and Bridges Magazine)
    For a single, recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering. Fields of endeavor may include design, construction, research or education.
  • Gustav Lindenthal Medal (Sponsored by Bayer Corporation)
    For a single, recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating, as appropriate, technical and material innovation, aesthetic merit, harmony with the environment or successful community participation.
  • Eugene C. Figg Medal (Sponsored by IBC)
    For a single, recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering that, through vision and innovation, provides an icon to the community for which it was designed.
  • Arthur G. Hayden Medal (Sponsored by Bridge design & engineering Magazine)
    For a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating innovation in special use bridges such as pedestrian, people-mover, or non-traditional structures.

Projects may be eligible for more than one Medal. For all Project Medals, recent is defined as projects on which construction was completed within two years of the Awards ceremony. For example, for the 2009 Conference, project construction must have been completed between June 2007 and June 2009.

  •  Student Paper Competition (Sponsored by IBC)
    The annual student paper competition is available to all graduate and undergraduate civil engineering majors who attend an accredited college or university in the United States or worldwide. Students may download the application and submit it with a paper and cover letter from a faculty sponsor.

 

Past Award Winners 

  • John A. Roebling Medal Winners

Award for lifetime achievement in bridge engineering

2009 Harold R. Sandberg, PE, SE, Alfred Benesch & Company
2008 Leonardo Fernandez Troyano, Carlos Fernandez Casado S.A.
2007 William B. Conway, PE, Modjeski and Masters
2006 Charles Seim, PE, F. ASCE
2005 Dr. John E. Breen, The University of Texas at Austin
2004 William Brown, Brown Beech & Associates Ltd.
2003 Hiroyuk Fujikawa, President, Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority
2002 Jackson Durkee, Consulting Structural Engineer
2001 James Roberts, CALTRANS
2000 Gene Figg, Figg Engineering Group
1999 Abba G. Lichtenstein, P.E., Dr. Eng., A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates (retired)
1998 Dr. Man-Chung Tang, P.E., T.Y. Lin International
1997 Dr. Christian Menn, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
1996 Frank D. Sears, Modjeski and Masters, Inc.
1995 Dr. John W. Fisher, Lehigh University
1994 Dr. Jean M. Muller, J. Muller International
1993 Arthur L. Elliott, Consultant/California DOT (retired)
1992 Frank L. Stahl, Ammann & Whitney
1991 Herbert Rothman, Weidlinger Associates
1990 T.Y. Lin, T.Y. Lin International
1989 Blair Birdsall, Consultant/New York DOT (retired)
1988 Carl H. Gronquist, Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist & Birdsall

  • George S. Richardson Medal Winners 

Award for a single, recent, outstanding achievement 

2009 I 35-W Bridge over the Mississippi Bridge in Minneapolis, MN
2008 Sutong Bridge, Nangtong City, Jiangsu Province, China
2007 Maine Department of Transportation
for the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, Waldo and Hancock Counties, ME
2006 Dr. Donald White, Dr. William Wright, Mr. Michael Grubb
LRFD Unified Design Specifications for Steel Deck Girder Bridges
2005 GEFYRA S.A., Greece for the Rion - Antirion Bridge
2004 California Department of Transportation for the Al Zampa Memorial Bridge (New Carquinez Bridge)
2003 Massachusetts Turnpike Authority for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
2002 The British Columbia Ministry of Transportation for the Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver, BC
2001 Luis do Canto Moiniz, Rede Ferroviaria, Nacional EP, Portugal for the Tagus River Suspension Bridge Rail Addition Project
2000 Ray McCabe, HNTB Corporation for the Storrow Drive Bridge
1999 Gerard Sauvageot, J. Muller International for the Confederation Bridge, Northumberland Strait, Canada
1998 Honshu Shikoku Bridge Authority for the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
1997 Virginia DOT, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Tidewater Construction Corp. for the George P. Coleman Bridge, Yorktown, Virginia
1996 John M. Kulicki, Modjeski and Masters, Inc. for Development & Approval, LRFD Design Specifications
1995 Michel P. Virloguex, Designer, Bertrand Deroubaix, Project Manager for the Normandy Bridge
1994 Figg Engineering and Eastern Federal Lands Highway Div., FHWA for the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge, Tennessee
1993 Colorado DOT for the Hanging Lake Viaduct, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado
1992 Washington State DOT for the Lake Washington Floating Bridge
1991 James W. Neal, Jr., John F. Beasley Engineering, Inc. for the Roosevelt Lake Bridge
1990 Denny A. McLeod, Rigging International for the Oakland Bay Bridge, California
1990 L. Ray Davis, Hardaway Company for the Ben Sawyer Bridge, South Carolina
1989 Tsutumu Yamane, Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority for the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Routes, specifically the Kojima-Sakaide Route 
1988 Jean M. Muller and Eugene C. Figg, Jr., Figg and Muller Engineers, Inc. for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Across Tampa Bay, Florida|

  • Gustav Lindenthal Medal Winners

Awarded for a single, recent outstanding achievement demonstrating harmony with the environment, aesthetic merit and successful community participation.

2009 Woodrow Wilson Bridge, South of Washington, DC linking VA and MD
2008 Route 50 Bridge over the Ohio River and Blennerhassett Island, Parkersburg, West Virginia
2007 Construction Command Office of Nanjing No. 3 Yangtze River Bridge
for the Nanjing No. 3 Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing, P.R. China
2006 South Carolina DOT for the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge
2005 Compagnie Eiffage du Viaduc de Millau, Millau, France for the Viaduct of Millau
2004 The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for the Mingo Creek Viaduct, Pennsylvania
2003 Alexandre Chan, for the President JK Bridge, Brazil
2002 Figg Engineers, for the Broadway Bridge, Daytona Beach, Florida
2001 Henrik Christensen, �resundskorsortiet, Denmark, for Oresund Fixed Link Bridge Project
2000 Celia Kupersmith, Golden Gate Bridge GGB Highway & Transportation District
1999 Kazu Hayashida, Hawaii Dept. of Transportation for Interstate H-3 Winward Viaduct

  • Eugene C. Figg Jr. Medal For Signature Bridges

Awarded for a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering that, through vision and innovation, provides an icon to the community for which it was designed.

2009 Sanhao Bridge over the Hunhe River, Shenyang, China
2008 High-Main Street Bridge, Hamilton, Ohio
2007 Florida Department of Transportation for the Royal Park Bridge Replacement, West Palm Beach, FL
2006 T.Y. Lin International for the Dagu Bridge, Tianjin, China
2005 Turtle Bay Museums and Arboretum on the River, Redding, California, for the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay
2004 Shanghai Lu Pu Bridge Investment Development Co., Ltd. for the Lu Pu Bridge, China
2003 Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for the Rama 8 Bridge, Chaiyuth Na Nakorn
2002 Jiangsu Provincial Department of Communications for the Jiangyin Bridge, China

 
  •  Arthur G. Hayden Medal

Awarded to recognize a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating innovation in special use bridges such as pedestrian, people-mover, or non-traditional structures.

2009 Seattle's Museum of Flight Pedestrian Bridge, Seattle, WA
2008 Tri-Countries Bridge, Weil Am Rhein, Germany
2007 Project Bureau Ijburg for Nesciobrug, Ijburg, The Netherlands
2006 BAA Gatwick, Gatwick Pier 6 Airbridge, Gatwick Airport, London U.K.
2005 City of Greenville, South Carolina, for the Liberty Bridge
2004 The City of Winnipeg for the Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge, Canada
2003 Schlaich Bergermann & Partner for the Duisburg Inner Harbor Footbridge, Germany 

 

An annual competition available to all graduate and undergraduate students attending an accredited college or university that offers a civil engineering major

2009 Michael Loy, Oregon Episcopal High School for his paper entitled: Developing a Novel pH Buffer Methodology to Inhibit Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement in Concrete
2008 Woo Soek Kim of the Pennsylvania State University for his paper entitled: Simplified Nonlinear Numerical Method for Integral Abutment Bridges
Undergraduate Student Award: Heidi Clayville, Theresa Howell and Kristen Erickson of Washington University in St. Louis for their paper entitled: The New Daniel Boone Bridge Project: US Route 40/I-64 Across the Missouri River.
2007 Jessica T. Newlin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and K. Sham Bhat, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania University, University Park, PA
for Paper: Identification and Prioritization of Stream Channel Maintenance Needs at Bridge Crossings (IBC-07-18)