The new Grant Street Pier at Vancouver Waterfront Park earned the American Public Works Association Award, adding to a growing list of honors earned by the park.
The association’s Washington chapter recognized the Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department on April 25 with the award for the concrete structure that extends nearly 100 feet over the Columbia River.
The pier’s design has no in-water structures, which minimizes impact to the river’s ecosystem.
“The iconic nature of the design, brought to reality with technically excellent and fiscally efficient engineering, provides Vancouver with a new sense of civic identity and pride,” the association said in its news release about this year’s awards. “To our knowledge, there is no other structure in the world like the Grant Street Pier. The single-abutment, post-tensioned, cable-stayed pier is a first-of-its-kind example of what engineers can achieve.”
Since its early planning stages in 2010, the Vancouver waterfront project has racked up 10 awards, including the 2019 Project of the Year from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington and Oregon, and the 2018 CRE Transformer Award from the Portland Business Journal.
