Scottish bridge awarded "Project of the Decade"

On 6th June 2018 Queensferry Crossing was named as "Project of the Decade" at the Ground Engineering (GE) award ceremony. The bridge opened on 30 August 2017 and was formally opened on 4 September 2017. It one of ten projects shortlisted in a special category to mark the GE Award’s 10th anniversary.

The Queensferry Crossing is a road bridge in Scotland. It was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. It is a three-tower cable-stayed bridge, with an overall length of 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometres) and the towers stand at 679 ft (207 metres).

The queen referred to in both South and North Queensferry, which are on either side of the Firth of Forth, is Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), who is believed to have established a ferry at this point for pilgrims on their way north to St Andrews. During archaeological excavations in advance of work on the new bridge archaeological deposits from the Mesolithic period were found on both sides of the Forth. On the northern side two post built structures and their surrounding pits were dated to the mid to the late Mesolithic period. On the south bank, in a field at Echline, the remains of a sunken floor structure was found. The structure, contained the remains of a hearth, stone tools, and bone from a variety of animals. Radio-carbon analysis returned a date of c.8300, making it the earliest known dwelling in Scotland.