SR 520 Floating Bridge Wins ACEC National Grand Conceptor Award
The SR-520 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Landings project won the 2017 “Grand Conceptor” Award at ACEC National’s 50th Anniversary Engineering Excellence Awards gala, held April 25, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
Wood Harbinger provided the electrical and fire protection engineering as well as commissioning services for this project. We are so very proud of our involvement in this iconic public work! Congratulations to the full project team on this award achievement!
HDR INC submitted the winning national competition entry.
Wood Harbinger won an ACEC Washington Best in State Gold Award for Complexity for our scope of the project.
The full project team included KPFF Consulting Engineers, Kiewit/General/Manson, BergerABAM, Helix Design Group, Inc., International Bridge Technologies, IBI Group, Hart Crowser, Geo Engineers, Floyd|Snider, EnviroIssues, Parametrix and Parsons Brinckerhoff in the USA! What an extraordinary effort for an extraordinary project!
See the ACEC National press release below and on the ACEC website, here.
Seattle’s SR 520 Floating Bridge Named Year’s Most Outstanding Engineering Triumph
Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Showcased Nation’s Top Engineering Firm Efforts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seattle’s gleaming new 1.5-mile SR 520 Floating Bridge has won the 2017 “Grand Conceptor” Award signifying the year’s most outstanding engineering achievement in the 50th Anniversary Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA)—a national juried competition sponsored by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
More than 700 attended Tuesday night’s 50th Anniversary black-tie Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Actor/Comedian Kevin Nealon, the event recognized 162 preeminent engineering accomplishments throughout the nation and the world.
Designed by engineering firm HDR, the new SR 520 Bridge is the world’s longest and largest floating bridge. The superstructure is supported by 21 of the heaviest, widest and deepest longitudinal pontoons ever built, each weighing nearly 11,000 tons. Further stabilized by 54 supplemental pontoons and cables and anchors, the bridge can resist winds of up to 98 miles per hour and 6.3-foot wave heights or the equivalent of a 100-year storm.
The new SR 520 Floating Bridge joins the San Francisco Air Traffic Control Tower (2016) the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span (2015); Wacker Drive/Congress Parkway Reconstruction (Chicago 2014); Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, (Kansas City, 2013); Lake Borgne Storm Surge Barrier (New Orleans, 2012) and the Hoover Dam Bypass (2011) as recent ACEC Grand Conceptor Award winners.