DBM Vircon joined Arup, Civmec and Cays Engineering in the submission for the 2018 ASI WA Steel Excellence Awards in Engineering Projects.

BuildingSMART International Awards Program credits exemplary demonstrations of openBIM best practice or innovation within project delivery and lifecycle asset management. The Queen’s Wharf Brisbane project has been selected as one of the three finalists competing.

The event included the official announcement of all Western Australian category winners of the ASI Excellence in Steel.

The Wells Street Bridge is the longest double deck, double leaf, bascule bridge built over the Chicago River, and only one of two remaining bascule bridges in the city of Chi­cago that carries both automobile and transit (Chicago Transit Authority elevated trains) on two levels.

A sample steel plate girder bridge employ­ing A1010 is the 123ft long, 42ft, 8in wide Mill Creek Bridge along Lower Columbia River Hwy, only the second A1010 plate girder bridge for public use in the world.

The Hastings Bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota, is a record breaker. Built as a replacement for the functionally obsolete Hastings High Bridge (built in 1950), the new 1,938ft long bridge with a 545ft main span is the longest freestanding tied-arch bridge in North America

DBM Vircon has captivated the globe with the newly opened Optus Stadium located in Perth. The 60,000-seat multi-purpose stadium and joint project of DBM Vircon, Arup, and Civmec bagged the Best Sports & Recreation Project in 2018's Tekla Global BIM Awards.

Using 5,000 tons of structural steel, the new 1,976ft long replacement bridge with 1,275 ft comprising the steel deck arch features three arch spans that support the 63ft wide to 90ft wide deck of the main river spans.

Prior to this project, no major rehabilitation had been per­formed on the Manhattan approach ramps to the RFK Bridge (officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Harlem River Lift Bridge) since its original construction in 1936.