The Institution of Structural Engineers, the world's largest membership organization dedicated to structural engineering, presents the award to recognize individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Robert Halvorson is an industry leader in the structural design of high-rise buildings and long-span structures. Over the last four decades he has engineered more than sixty buildings of forty stories or taller, including Wells Fargo Plaza (formerly Allied Bank Plaza) in Houston, 111 West Wacker in Chicago, Torre Caja Madrid in Madrid, Burj Mohammed bin Rashid Tower in Abu Dhabi, and Hanking Center in Shenzhen.

In his acceptance remarks, Robert Halvorson addressed some of the factors that influence great building design: 'The best, most elegant and most interesting buildings that I have been involved with resulted not from the designers having complete freedom - a large site, an unlimited budget, no program and no zoning restrictions - but rather from having a seemingly impossible constraint on the design. Some of these constraints have been external to the design process, like too small a site, or an unlikely mix of building uses, or trains running below the building, but some have been created within the design process.'

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