Seven winners were selected in the Portland Cement Association's Twelfth Biennial Concrete Bridge Awards Competition. The competition, instituted in 1988, recognizes excellence in design and construction of concrete bridges. This year’s competition was co-sponsored by Roads & Bridges magazine.
The 2010 competition attracted 38 outstanding entries from the U.S. and Canada. All structures were essentially completed between April 2008 and September 2009.
Entries covered all types of bridges—highway, transit and pedestrian—in which the basic structural system is concrete. The competition included short-, medium- and long-span bridges constructed of either cast-in-place concrete or precast concrete. Newly constructed, reconstructed and widened structures were all represented in the competition.
The winners were selected based on creativity and skillfulness in the structural, functional, aesthetic, sustainable and economic design and construction of concrete bridges. The selection was made by a jury of three prominent bridge professionals: Fred Gottemoeller, principal, Bridgescape LLC, Columbia, Md.; Myint Lwin, director, Office of Bridge Technology, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.; and Kendal Walus, state structure and bridge engineer, Virginia Department of Transportation.
All winning entries received an Award of Excellence at the 2010 Concrete Bridge Awards reception held at the 2010 Concrete Bridge Conference on Feb. 25 in Phoenix.
The award-winning bridges for 2010 are listed below without regard to ranking or category:
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Seattle Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail, Tukwila Segment, Seattle;
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Pedestrian Bridge Over I-5, Eugene and Springfield, Ore.;
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New I-35W Bridge, Minneapolis;
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106th Street and 126th Street Bridges, Carmel, Ind.;
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Wilson Street Bridge Replacement, Batavia, Ill.;
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Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Bridge, Matagorda, Texas; and
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Hawk Lake Bridge, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
