AISC / NSBAPrize Bridge Awards
The steel industry's highest design honour for bridges, awarded since 1928.
- Reach
- National
- Run by
- AISC / NSBA
- Disciplines
- Bridge & Structural · Civil
Who enters
Submitted for completed steel bridges in the United States, typically by the designer or the fabricator.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. AISC / NSBA publishes the current one.
- Long Span
- Medium Span
- Short Span
- Movable Span
- Reconstruction
- Special Purpose
The route, start to finish
- 01Entry submitted to AISC/NSBA for a completed American steel bridge
- 02Judged against others in its category, which are defined by bridge size and function
- 03Prize Bridge and merit awards announced
- 04Every eligible project also runs for Bridge of the Year — three finalists present at the World Steel Bridge Symposium and the audience votes
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not AISC / NSBA’s.
Running since 1928, which makes it the oldest credential on this list. Steel bridge design is a narrow specialism with a small national talent pool — a Prize Bridge project on a CV is one of the few reliable ways to identify someone who has actually done it rather than adjacent work.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Bridge Design Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Bridge Inspection Lead
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Prize Bridge Awards. The AISC / NSBA name and mark belong to AISC / NSBA, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.