HART Airport Guideway and Station Segment Awarded 2025 ASBI Bridge Award of Excellence

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HONOLULU – The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) has received the 2025 ASBI Bridge Award of Excellence by the American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI) for design and construction of the Airport Guideway and Stations.

According to HART, this award “recognizes the owners of bridges which exemplify concrete segmental bridge design and construction excellence.” For the award, the criteria included design and construction innovation, aesthetics and/or harmony with the environment, cost, and construction impact on the public. 

On October 27, HART was presented the award at the ASBI Convention in Bellevue, Wash. At the event, HART Deputy Project Director Matthew Scanlon accepted the award on behalf of HART. 

HART Executive Director and CEO Lori Kahikina said, “I am so honored that HART has been recognized for the engineer feats that were achieved in the design and construction of the Airport Guideway and Stations segment. . . This portion of the alignment features the highest section of guideway that was required to clear the tallest airplane tail near Terminal 1 at the airport. Travelling west to east, the guideway then traverses what’s come to be known as the S-curve, which is a series of turns needed to navigate a challenging and congested path to the Airport station. On the way to the Lagoon Drive station, riders then experience the lowest point of Segment 2, designed this way to accommodate the flight path. Segment 2 also features what is believed to be the world’s deepest cast-in-place concrete column at 357 feet, which is part of the support structure for the Middle Street station.”