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By Alex Girda, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

The San Francisco\u2014Oakland Bay Bridge East Span is the recipient of the American Council of Engineering Companies\u2019 2015 Grand Conceptor Award. The honor was recently announced during the Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner and Gala held in Washington, D.C. Attended by around 600 people, the black-tie event acknowledged the accomplishments of some 170 engineering projects worldwide.<\/p>\n

The East Span is the world\u2019s longest single-tower, self-anchored suspension bridge, as well as the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the world\u2019s widest bridge. The span follows in the foot\"\"<\/a>steps of such past Grand Conceptor Award winners as the Wacker Drive\/Congress Parkway reconstruction in Chicago; the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo.; the Lake Borgne Storm Surge Barrier in New Orleans and the Hoover Dam Bypass. A vital link in the Bay Area\u2019s transportation network, the bridge handles some 300,000 vehicles daily.<\/p>\n

The western span had been previously retrofitted, but retrofitting the eastern span, which was severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, would have been prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n

A joint venture of T.Y. Lin International and Moffatt & Nichol designed the 2.2-mile-long structure to withstand the maximum credible earthquake that experts say could strike the region during the bridge’s lifetime. One standout seismic safety feature is the design of a 525-foot tall tower with independently-moving steel legs that provide shock absorption. Also of note, the bridge\u2019s 1.2-mile-long, twin-viaduct Skyway incorporates expansion joints that allow sections of the span to move several feet in a temblor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge East Span was recently given the 2015 Grand Conceptor Award at this year’s Engineering Excellence Awards. The award was announced during the Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner and Gala held in Washington, D.C., an event sponsored by the American Council of Engineering Companies. 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