The Prix Albert Caquot is an annual prestigious award presented by the French Association of Civil Engineering. It is named after Albert Caquot

Albert Caquot

Albert Caquot was considered as the "best living French engineer" during half a century. He received the “Croix de guerre 1914-1918” and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur...

, a famous and influential French civil engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

. The award is given for a lifetime of scientific and technical achievements, as well as high ethical standards and influence throughout the construction industry. It alternates between French and foreign nominees.

Award winners

• Fritz Leonhardt
  Fritz Leonhardt
  Fritz Leonhardt was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges...
  
  
• Tung-Yen Lin
• Jean M. Muller
  Jean M. Muller
  Jean Muller was a French bridge engineer who focused on design and construction of concrete bridges.-Early career:...
  
  
• Alan Garnett Davenport
  Alan Garnett Davenport
  Alan Garnett Davenport was a professor at the University of Western Ontario and founder of its Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory. He analyzed the wind's effect on a significant portion of the worlds tallest buildings including the building formerly known as the CN Tower, Sears Tower,...
  
   - 2001
• Michael Levy - 2009

External links

• Association Francaise de Genie Civil