Tanaka Award
The late Dr.Yutaka Tanaka, the first head of the Bridge Division of The Imperial Capital Reconstruction Board which was established soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake, is widely known for numerous bridge constructions that he worked for are found even today such as the symbols of Tokyo, Eitaibashi and Kiyosubashi bridges spanning Sumida River. Dr. Tanaka, a noted bridge and structural engineer, is widely respected for his outstanding achievements and contribution to the development of bridge and structural engineering.
Tanaka Award was established to honor Dr. Tanaka for his pioneering contribution to bridge and structural engineering in 1966. The fund for the award was endowed by his family and also provided through Dr. Yutaka Tanaka Commemorative Foundation which was established by his friends, colleagues, students and admireres in 1965. Since then, the award has recognized remarkable success, exellence, and contribution, at the same time, gained recognition internationally.
Nowadays the award is counted as one of prestigious and authoritative awards in the civil engineering field.
The award is made in the three categories:
1. Outstanding Achievement: the award is made to recognize outstanding achievements and contributions to the advancement of the field of bridge engineering. This award, founded in 1993, has been recognized as one of the most prestigious award in the country. Many of the recipients are the country's most eminent bridge experts.
2. Exellence in Research Paper: the award is made to recognize the author, or authors of research papers on planning, design, construction, maintenance and management, history and others, published in the JSCE journals/ magazine, which have made valuable and commendable contributions to bridge engineering progress.
3. Excellence in Bridge Design and Construction: the award recognizes constructed, or reconstructed bridges, or related structures which are produced based on excellent planning, design, construction, maintenance and management and excell technically and aesthetically. The award is made not to honor individual engineers' success, but rather the works and achievements made by the cooperative effort of engineers who worked together in a project.
- 2022 Winners
1. Kesennuma Bay Crossing Bridge
2. The First Shirakawa Bridge of Minami-aso Railway
3. YOSHINOGAWA SUNRISE BRIDGE
4. Large-scale renewal of the Yodogawa Ohashi Bridge
5. Cylinder-type viscous damper with unseating prevention function
- 2021 Winners
1. NEW BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OVER THE KELANI RIVER
2. Tamagawa Sky Bridge
3. ARIAKE CHIKUGO RIVER BRIDGE
4. DECK SLAB RENEWAL OF TADENO NO.2 BRIDGE
5. CONSERVATION AND REPAIR PROJECT OF MINO BRIDGE
6. Precast PC slab with UFC layer (UFC composite slab) - 2020 Winners
1. BESSODANI BRIDGE
2. SHIN-ASO OHASHI BRIDGE
3. NAKA BRIDGE
4. MORIMURA BRIDGE
5. Improvement Work of Dojima Ohashi Bridge
6. Tokiwabashi Restoration Project
7. Development of evaluation method and full scale adoption of water-based painting system for steel bridge in Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway
- 2019 Winners
1. Yokohama-kohoku Junction
2. KOMONODAINI VIADACT
3. MAMEDANI OHASHI BRIDGE
4. Myaung Mya Bridge
5. Tottori Castle Ruins, Giboshi-Bridge
6. Widening Construction of KIRIGATAKI BRIDGE
7. Seismic retrofit of a truss portion of the Hitsuishijima viaduct
8. OTSUCHI-GAWA RIVER BRIDGE
9. Screw Pile
- 2018 Winners
1. IKUNO BRIDGE
2. TENRYUKYO BRIDGE
3. TSUKIJI BRIDGE
4. TENJYO BRIDGE
5. REHABILITATION OF BOSPHORUS BRIDGES
6. The Road Bridge Renovation between Itabashi JCT and Kumanocho JCT
7. Miyamasu Overroad Bridge Rebuild (Saikyo-Nobori Line)
8. WIDENING METHOD FOR URBAN EXPRESSWAY (NISHI-SEMBA JUNCTION)
9. Dry air injection system for suspension bridge cables
10. Flat UHPFRC Deck Slabs to Replace Deteriorated Concrete Slabs
- 2017 Winners
1. Dejima Omotemon Bridge
2. DINH VU - CAT HAI BRIDGE
3. KESENNUMA OSHIMA BRIDGE
4. Namamugi Junction at Kanagawa Route No.7 Yokohama-Kita Line
5. Onahama Marine Bridge
6. Restoration of Aso Choyo Ohashi bridge
7. The seismic retrofitting of Oiwake Bridge
- 2016 Winners
1. OSMAN GAZI BRIDGE
2. The Mukogawa Bridge
3. The Asakegawa Bridge
4. METROPOLITAN EXPRESSWAY ROUTE 1 HANEDA LINE KATSUSHIMA DISTRICT VIADUCT
5. The seismic retrofitting of the Katashinagawa Bridge
- 2015 Winners
1. TSUBASA BRIDGE
2. YOKOHAMA EXPRESSWAY NORTH ROUTE TRUSS BRIDGE
3. The Okegawa Viaduct
- 2014 Winners
1. NHAT TAN BRIDGE (VIETNAM-JAPAN FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE)
2. SANRIKU Railway HAIPESAWA Bridge
3. Otagawa-Ohashi Bridge
4. Irabu Bridge
5. GENTA Bridge
- 2013 Winners
1. Bridges in the Hirose-gawa Area
2. Terasako Chocho-ohashi Bridge
3. Kakamigahara Bridge
4. Kasumi Bridge
5. Metropolitan Expressway Yaesu Route Shiodome Viaduct
- 2012 Winners
1. Shin-minato Bridge
2. Awa Shirasagi Bridge
3. Second Ondo Bridge
4. Sanagawa Bridge
- 2011 Winners
1. Dubai Metro Viaduct
2. Ikina Bridge
3. Third Agatsumagawa Bridge
4. Hiroshima Airport Bridge
5. Tokyo Gate Bridge
- 2010 Winners
1. Colorado River Bridge
2. Amarube Bridge
3. Connection Taxiway Bridge in Tokyo International Airport D-Runway
4. Fudo Ohashi Bridge
- 2009 Winners
1. Stonecutters Bridge
2. Sarutagawa Bridge and Tomoegawa Bridge
3. Kyushu Shinkansen Matsubara Intersection Bridge
4. Incheon Bridge
- 2008 Winners
1. Toyoshima Bridge
2. Sannai Maruyama Bridge
3. Yabegawa Bridge
4. Tokyo International Airport International Airline District GSE Bridge
5. New Metropolitan Bridge