“For the past 14 years, our Awards program has constituted an industry reference for innovators across the globe,” noted C Patrick Sankey, president & CEO of the
The winning projects include a signature bridge linking San Francisco to Oakland designed to meet high traffic volumes while adhering to stringent seismic engineering requirements as well as Brisbane’s flagship road project whose construction incorporated state of the art environmental mitigation measures. Also featured this year is a remarkably successful campaign underway in Dubai to decrease the rate of fatal road injuries among children and youths.
Winners of the 2014 GRAA competition:
Construction Methodology
“The Zayed Street Tunnel”
(United Arab Emirates)
Design
“The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span”
(USA)
Environmental Mitigation
“Legacy Way”
(Australia)
Program Management
Hubei Changjiang Road & Bridge Co.
“Ma-Wu Highway Construction Project” (China)
Project Finance & Economics
District Department of Transportation (DDOT)
“11th Street Bridge Project”
(USA)
Quality Management
“Columbus Crossroads (I-670/I-71 Interchange) Design-Build Project”
(USA)
Safety
“Children Road Safety is a Shared Responsibility”
(United Arab Emirates)
Technology, Equipment & Manufacturing
“Smartphone IRI data collection”
(Sweden)
Traffic Management and Intelligent Transportation Systems
“Merge dynamic parking pricing”
(UK)
The 2014 GRAA trophy presentations will take place at the 1st IRF Asia Regional Congress & Exhibition in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, November 18.
