A decoration for the Millau Viaduct engineer

As each year, the « Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale » will award the « Chaptal de l’Industrie ». These high decorations consecrate personalities, authors of great French economic or industrial achievement.

Among the prize-winners 2017, we find Michel Virlogeux, French engineer, conceiver of the Millau Viaduct, the Normandy Bridge, the Bridge to Île de Ré, and recently the bridge Yavuz-Sultan-Selim on Bosphorus inaugurated in August, 2016.

A beautiful reward for this specialist of bridges, behind more than 200 works through the world!