Elite Eight: 2024 AISC/NSBA Prize Bridge Award winners

From Modern Steel Construction July 2024

INNOVATION ABOUNDS in the steel bridge industry, and eight recent bridges projects are especially captivating showcases of it.

AISC and the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) handed out the 2024 Prize Bridge Awards to eight recently completed structures, from short creek overpasses to major river crossings and even a taxiway bridge at an airport.

“Steel bridges have connected American communities for centuries,” said NSBA Senior Director of Bridge Projects Jeff Carlson, PE. “This year’s Prize Bridge Award winners continue that proud tradition and showcase the innovation—at all scales, from showcase bridges to local lifelines—that will keep Americans moving for centuries to come.”

​More than 600 bridges of all sizes from all four time zones have earned a Prize Bridge Award since 1928, when AISC gave the inaugural honor to Pittsburgh’s Sixth Street Bridge. Some of those long-ago winners are still in service and have even outlasted the companies that built and designed them.

Prize Bridge Awards are handed out biennially. This year, two winners were in the long span category (one span of at least 300 ft), two were medium span (one span between 140 and 300 ft), two were short span (no span longer than 140 ft), and two were special purpose. The rehabilitation category did not have a 2024 winner.

A team of five acclaimed bridge experts served as the 2024 jury:

• Jim Nelson, PE, Bridge Engineer, Iowa Department of Transportation
• Deanna Nevling, PE, PhD, Senior Bridge Engineer, HDR
• Natalie McCombs, SE, PE, Associate Fellow, HNTB
• Tom Murphy, SE, PE, PhD, Senior Vice President, Modjeski and Masters
• Brian Witte, Vice President, Construction Engineering, Parsons Corporation

View original article in the Modern Steel Construction's July 2024 Issue.