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AWARDS
Ed Wasserman Named Recipient of 2019 Richard S. Fountain Award
The Steel Market Development Institute’s (SMDI) Steel Bridge Before joining Modjeski and Masters, Wasserman was director
Task Force has named Ed Wasserman, senior engineer of bridge of the Structures Division at the Tennessee Department of Trans-
design and engineering at Modjeski and Masters, as the recipient portation, which won 34 design excellence awards over the course
of the 2019 Richard S. Fountain Award. of his leadership. He served as chairman of the AASHTO T-14
Established in 2001 and named for the founder of the Steel Committee for 25 years as well as chairman of the AASHTO T-10
Bridge Task Force, the Fountain Award recognizes leader- Technical Committee for Prestressed Concrete Design (later sub-
ship in steel bridge research and outstanding efforts to advance sumed into the Technical Committee for Concrete Design). He
AASHTO specifications. Wasserman received the award at a has also won an AISC Lifetime Achievement Award.
Steel Bridge Task Force meeting in January in Orlando. The task
force was formed more than 40 years ago to coordinate research SMDI
that establishes safe, cost-effective steel bridges and to imple-
ment these developments into steel bridge design codes, specifi-
cally the AASHTO design codes.
“Throughout his career, Ed has made lasting contributions to
the improvement of steel bridge design,” said Robert Wills, vice
president of construction market development for SMDI, a busi-
ness unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). “When he
chaired the AASHTO T-14 Committee, Ed championed a multi-
year research project that completely overhauled the AASHTO
specifications to unify the design of straight and curved steel gird-
ers, resulting in more cost-effective steel bridge designs. He was From left to right: Chris Garrell, National Steel Bridge Alliance, AISC’s
always quick to engage the Tennessee Department of Transporta- bridge division; Wasserman; Ronnie Medlock, High Steel Structures
tion in the development and testing of new design strategies for and chairman of the Steel Bridge Task Force Oversight Council; and
Tom Macioce, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and chair-
construction innovations such as high-performance steels [HPS].” man of the AASHTO T-14 Committee.

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