LAREDO, TX — Wilson & Company Inc. has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 59th annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA). The award comes for the Second Track Span of the Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge in Laredo, Texas.
Wilson & Company served as lead designer for the new double-track span that eliminates a long-standing single-track bottleneck restricting train flows at the busiest rail port of entry in North America. By enabling simultaneous northbound and southbound traffic, trains can now cross the border in just 25 to 30 minutes — compared with more than two hours for trucks — thereby reducing congestion and accelerating delivery times.
Because a single railcar carries four times the capacity of a truck trailer, and a 60-car train removes approximately 240 trucks from highways, the shift to a double-track crossing improves mobility in border communities, reduces roadway maintenance costs, and lowers emissions by expanding the use of a more energy-efficient transportation mode, directly strengthening North American supply chain reliability.
Wilson & Company provides a wide range of engineering services from 16 offices in nine states.
Judging for the awards program was conducted by a national 32-member panel of built environment leaders, along with experts from government, the media, and academia. Award criteria focused on uniqueness and originality, technical innovation, social and economic value, and excitement generated toward the engineering profession.
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All 240 award winners — including 16 Honor Awards, eight Grand Awards, and the announcement of the Grand Conceptor Award for the year’s most outstanding overall engineering achievement — will take place at the 2026 EEA Gala at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C.
ACEC is the business association of America’s engineering industry, representing more than 5,200 independent engineering firms and more than 600,000 professionals throughout the United States engaged in the development of America’s transportation, water, and energy infrastructure, along with environmental, industrial, and other public and private facilities. Founded in 1906 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations.
