Environmentally sensitive solution honored

摘要

By the time it was decommissioned, the original Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge connecting Maryland and Virginia to Washington, D.C., was carrying 167% more trips per day than it was designed to. Its $2.4 billion replacement has earned a different distinction: as the American Society of Civil Engineers' Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement, awarded annually since 1960 to projects that contribute to both the civil engineering profession and the local community.