Port of Miami Tunnel /photo by Parsons-Brinckerhoff.
Boston – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff a winner of the 2016 Gold Engineering Excellence Award for its work on the Port of Miami Tunnel in Miami, Florida.
The 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards were announced at the recent ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala with emcees Mass. State Senator Karen Spilka and Mass. Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, with offices in Boston, received the award for its work on the Port of Miami Tunnel, that provides a long desired second means of accessing the Port.
The project was the first developed under Florida’s Public-Private-Partnership legislation and approved by the FHWA as an availability payment.
Distinguished as the first major tunnel in Florida and the largest soft ground bored tunnel in North America, the project also widened MacArthur Causeway Bridge and reconfigured Port roadways.
Benefits of the project include a direct connection of the Port to the Interstate Highway system, decrease in downtown traffic congestion, reduction in noise and air pollution and a safer and friendlier pedestrian environment.