Albert Caquot Prize
The Albert Caquot Prize (Prix Albert Caquot) is awarded annually by the French Civil Engineering Association (Association Française de Génie Civil, AFGC) to a civil engineer for his life's work, his scientific and technical achievements, but also ethical standards and his influence on the building world .
Every year French and foreign civil engineers alternate between the award winners. The prize is named after Albert Caquot and has been awarded since 1989.
Award winners
- 1989 Fritz Leonhardt
- 1990 Pierre Xercavins , consulting engineer
- 1991 Franco Levi
- 1992 Henri Mathieu , Engineer Général des Ponts et Chaussées
- 1993 Bruno Thürlimann
- 1994 Roger Lacroix , Jean-Claude Foucriat , consulting engineers
- 1995 Tung-Yen Lin
- 1996 Jean Muller , as the pioneer of prestressed concrete
- 1997 René Walther
- 1998 Jacques Bietry , director of the Center scientifique et technique du bâtiment (CSTB) in Nantes
- 1999 Jörg Schlaich
- 2000 Pierre Richard , Scientific Director at the Bouygues construction company , inventor of Béton de Poudre Réactive (BPR), self-compacting concrete.
- 2001 Alan Garnett Davenport , Director of the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Project at the University of Western Ontario
- 2002 Jacques Mathivat , consulting engineer
- 2003 John E. Breen
- 2004 Jacques Brozzetti
- 2005 Jan Moksnes , consulting engineer
- 2006 Michel Virlogeux
- 2007 José Câncio Martins , consulting engineer
- 2008 Michel Lévy , Director of SETEC-TPI
- 2009 Jean-Marie Cremer , General Manager of Bureau Greisch in Liège
- 2010 Jean-Armand Calgaro , President of the French Commission for Eurocodes
- 2011 Manfred A. Hirt , Director of ICOM at EPFL in Lausanne
- 2012 Michel Placidi , former technical director of Razel, design of bridges
- 2013 Jiří Stráský , Czech bridge builder
- 2014 Jacques Combault , design of bridges
- 2015 Armando Rito , Portuguese bridge builder and consulting engineer
- 2016 Alain Pecker
- 2017 Klaus Ostenfeld
Web links
- Awarded to Hirt 2011 with a list of the winners by then , Le Moniteur, April 4, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurrer, History of Structural Engineering, Ernst and Son, 2016, p. 958
- ↑ Caquot price for Placidi, Le Moniteur, 19 April 2013
- ↑ Strasky, Search for the true structural solution, 26 Dresdner Brückenbausymposium, 2016
- ^ Finley Engineering, April 8, 2015 on the Caquot Price for Combault
- ↑ Armando Rito engineering office
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae, Alain Pecker (pdf)
- ↑ COWI 2018 on the Albert Caquot Prize for Ostenfeld