 The History & Heritage Committee is responsible for collecting information relating to local civil engineering projects and prominent engineers of historical interest, nominating civil engineering landmarks, maintaining a history of the Met Section, presenting historical programs, and working with the media to publicize Historical Civil Engineering Landmarks.
ASCE was the first national engineering society to establish a permanent History & Heritage Committee to enhance the knowledge and appreciation of our history and heritage. The Met Section and its members have been recognized for their contributions towards this objective. In 1984, the Met Section was the second Section to receive a History and Heritage Citation from ASCE. The Society played a large role in the restoration of the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty for their centennial celebrations in 1983 and 1986. Met Section members have been the recipients of the Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award and the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award from the Society.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Robert Olmsted, P.E., F.ASCE, Chair
Phone: (718) 899-6753
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The Queensboro Bridge and Manhattan Bridge will each celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2009. The Met Section is planning to submit a nomination for each of these East River bridges to ASCE's History & Heritage Committee for National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (NHCEL) status. Any published papers, articles, or reports about either bridge or biographical information on their principal designers would be helpful in supporting the nomination and could be included as attachments. Met Section members aware of any documentation that could be helpful are encouraged to contact Robert Olmsted, Chair of the Met Section History & Heritage Committee at
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 In May 2008, New York City commemorated the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge with a spectacular five-day birthday celebration featuring fireworks, light shows, musical and dance performances, a Brooklyn Bridge film series, walking tours, a series of lectures and readings at the Brooklyn Historical Society and Manhattan's Surrogate's Court, a bicycle "Tour de Brooklyn", the opening of a new pedestrian connection between the Brooklyn Bridge and DUMBO, and a telectroscope connection to London, England.
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 Text and drawing by M.D. Morris, P.E., F. ASCE.
Worldwide recognition allows that the George Washington Bridge is an outstanding symbol of the City of New York. It is one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of Gotham, just as San Francisco boasts the Golden Gate Bridge; Australia, its Sydney Harbour Bridge; and London, its Tower Bridge.
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 The year 2006 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Augustus Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent civil engineers. To celebrate the occasion, the ASCE History and Heritage Committee and the New Jersey and Metropolitan Sections sponsored the Roebling Symposium in Brooklyn from October 26-29, 2006. The symposium included an icebreaker reception at Polytechnic University, a symposium at the Marriott Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge, a bus tour to Roebling-related sites in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the ASCE landmarked Roebling Aqueduct Bridge over the Delaware River, and a tour of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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