Roebling Award

The Roebling Award of the Construction Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is given for special achievements in the field of construction engineering. It is named after John A. Roebling , Washington Roebling and his wife Emily Warren Roebling , the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge . The winner must be an ASCE member. He gives a lecture at the annual meeting of the ASCE, the Roebling Lecture .

There is also a Roebling Award from the New York section of the ASCE (Metropolitan Section) specifically for bridge construction. There is also the John A. Roebling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Bridge Construction at the International Bridge Conference, awarded by the ESWP (Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania).

Award winners

• 1988 George A. Fox (1920–2001), former director of the Grow Tunneling Corporation and as such responsible for the construction of the largest US tunneling project, the Water Tunnel No. 3 in New York City
• 1991 Martin N. Kelley
• 1993 Joe B. McNabb
• 1995 Donald K. Stager
• 1997 William A. Eskins
• 1999 Man-Chung Tang (* 1940), bridge construction engineer, DRC Consultants (his engineering office), TY Lin International
• 2001 Bruce D. McKellar
• 2002 Raymond W. Henn
• 2003 Lester M. Hunkele III.
• 2004 John C. Shimmick
• 2005 F. Keith Jacobson
• 2007 J. Patrick Powers
• 2009 Edwin K. McNinch , bridge construction engineer, he was the first to receive the award posthumously.
• 2013 David W. Johnston
• 2014 Michael D. Flowers
• 2017 Raymond Paul Giroux
• 2018 Ahmad Itani
• 2019 Andres Baquerizo

Web links

• Roebling Award and Past Award Winners at the American Society of Civil Engineers (asce.org)

See also

The Roebling Medal is the Mineralogical Society of America's highest award .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roebling Award, Metropolitan Section
2. ^ Winner of the John A. Roebling Medal at the IBC ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Obituary at the New York Building Congress
4. ↑ Biography at Structurae
5. ↑ Obituary 2009