He was awarded the first "National Engineering Survey and Design Master" granted by the Ministry of Construction in 1989, has enjoyed the special allowance of the State Council since 1990, awarded the "Mao Yisheng Bridge Award" in 1994, awarded the "National Outstanding Young Expert" twice, awarded the National Advanced Worker in 1995, successively awarded the Shanghai Top Ten Science and Technology Elite, Shanghai Science and Technology Hero, Shanghai Construction Systems Luminaries in Nineties; elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005; awarded Science and Technology Achievement Award of Hong Kong Liang Ho Lin Fund. Lin Yuanpei is also the NPC member of the 15th National Party Congress.

Academician Lin Yuanpei has high attainments in bridge design theory. He studies the theory of beam bridge load transverse distribution, the theory of prefabricated hinged plate transverse distribution coefficient, and studies and puts forward the oblique bending theory. He originated in applying the Kalman filtering method into the control of cable-stayed bridge construction and put forward the nonlinear finite element theory of close-loop thin-walled bar.

Academician Lin Yuanpei is China’s former chief and impeller of cable-stayed bridge design. Since the 1970s, the test bridge of Maogang Bridge in Shanghai, through continuous summary, he developed the bridge design into use of Shimen Bridge, Jialing River of Chongqing in 1989, (awarded the First Prize of National Award for Science and Technology Progress) which became a world-lever cable-stayed bridge. As the chief designer, he led to build the Nanpu Bridge in the early 1990s (awarded the First Prize of National Award for Science and Technology Progress), and Yangpu Bridge which made the cable-stayed bridge of China into the world’s advanced level.

Lupu Bridge, whose design was taken charge by Academician Lin Yuanpei, is a large span steel arch bridge with a main span of 550m, which is the first long-span arch bridge in the world (awarded the 2004 American Eugene Ferguson award and the outstanding structural award of the International Association of Bridge and Structure in 2008). He was also the chief design for Donghai Bridge of Shanghai, which is 32 kilometers and the first national bridge across the sea (awarded the First Prize of National Award for Science and Technology Progress).

Master Cui Jianqiu has made outstanding achievements in road engineering research, planning and design, and he has very high prestige in innovation of design theory. He presided dozens of major engineering design, especially in the design of high-grade automotive proving ground which filled the gaps of our country and made a pioneering contribution.

The typical engineering projects presided by Cui Jianqiu are: the Inner Ring Elevated Road of Shanghai, South-north Elevated Road, Bund Traffic Comprehensive Renovation Engineering Project, Shanghai Section of Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway Construction Project, Shenzhen Binhai Road(reclaimed), Reclamation of Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Expressway, Road Engineering Project of Dalian Development Zone and New Town of South China Sea of Guangdong, Guangzhou-Sanshui Expressway, Mountain Roads of Jiangxi Lushan and the major traffic engineering consulting work of many provinces in China. Especially the first proving ground (Hainan) and the first military proving ground(Anhui), the first and the second automobile factory site and China’s first tractor proving ground (Luoyang), etc., are chiefly designed by master Cui Jianqiu. Projects designed by Master Cui Jianqiu won 15 awards such as the silver medal of Zhan Tianyou Award, the National Silver Medal, Lu Ban Award, the second prize of the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology and the first prize of Urban Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, etc.

Master Yang Shousheng has engaged in urban water supply and drainage engineering design and research work for more than 50 years, in the 60s and 70s of last century, he did the studies and tests on the management technology of phenol containing wastewater, oil refining wastewater, petrochemical wastewater and printing and dyeing wastewater. He designed the urban sewage drainage engineering planning and design for Suzhou city of Jiangsu province and Xiamen of Fujian province. Since 1984, he has been the total technical director for some biggest world bank loan projects such as the first phase of the combined wastewater in Shanghai, the second phase of the combined wastewater in Shanghai, and the river water environmental governance in Shanghai Suzhou, etc. He has also successively presided over the design of dozens of sewage treatment plants. He has won many first prizes in excellent design of the country, the construction ministry and Shanghai. His representative works include Theory and Practice of Aeration and so on.

Master Shao Changyu has engaged in the work of bridge engineering design and research for nearly 30 years. He presided over a number of national key large-scale bridge engineering design and research work, which covers highway bridge, railway bridge, highway-railway composite structure bridge and highway-track composite structure bridge. These bridge projects contain complicated construction conditions like cross-river, cross-sea, strong wind resistance and strong quake resistance, etc. He has strong innovation and pioneering.

Since the beginning of this century, as one of the pioneers of cross-sea bridge construction technology in China, he presided the design and research work over the East Sea Bridge and Hangzhou bay bridge, which made an outstanding contribution to the construction of the bridge at the international advanced level. In recent years, he presided the engineering design and construction consulting over Shanghai Yangtze river bridge, Hangzhou nine-fort bridge as well as the main bridge body of the Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau bridge. He indulges in the exploration and engineering practice of the research and application of the composite structure bridge, and the bridge design method which is based on a one-hundred-year life span bridge.

He has successively won several prizes such as the first prize of national scientific and technological progress, several items of first prizes of provincial scientific and technological progress, and 3 items of Gold Medal of national excellent design. And he has also published more than 50 papers in recent years.

Master Zhang Chen has been engaged in urban water supply and drainage engineering design and research for many years, and presided in over 40 major engineering and scientific research projects including the Asia's largest Shanghai Bailonggang Sewage Treatment Plant, Shanghai Shidongkou Sewage Treatment Plant which possess the world's largest integrated biological reaction tank and the first set of sludge drying incineration device, Chongqing Jiguanshi sewage treatment plant, the most important environmental engineering in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Key Technologies Research and Application in Shanghai Suzhou River Environmental Governance. He was awarded the Second Prize in the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, First Prize in the Shanghai Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, one gold award and two sliver awards in the National Excellent Design Award, ten first prizes in National Survey and Design Industry Award and eight first prizes in Shanghai Outstanding Design Award, etc.; presided over the preparation of ten national, industrial and local standards; six edited works and received 18 patents.

Shanghai Lupu Bridge completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of technology won 2008 silver award of national excellent engineering design and 2005 second prize of national science and technology progress award. This bridge is the super-large arch bridge firstly innovated to use the box arch structure in the World and became the landmark building of 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Lupu Bridge has created the world record of arch bridge and has made great contribution to catch up the world advanced level for the bridge technology of China. Xupu Bridge completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of technology won 2000national ninth excellent engineering design gold award. This bridge is the first cable-stayed bridge of long-span concrete girder and steel-concrete combined girder structure in the world, which provides a new choice for widely adapting various construction conditions economically and reasonably to construct the long-span bridges.

The main bridge of Shanghai Nanpu Bridge completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of specialty won 1993gold award of national excellent engineering design and 1995firstprize of national science and technology progress award. This bridge is the first bridge successfully realizing a breakthrough in the main span above 400 m in China, and has made a great contribution to the development of long-span cable-stayed bridge in China.

Hangzhou Desheng Expressway Project completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of technology is about 24 km long totally. Its total investment is RMB 4.46 billion yuan. This bridge won the silver prize of the fourteenth national excellent engineering survey and design award. The existing facilities are fully utilized in the overall design of this project with the layout form of ramp intensification. The design concept of people foremost is adhered to improve the traffic in the central area of Hangzhou.

Shenzhen-Hongkong Western Corridor Shenzhen Side Connection Project completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of technology is about 4.5 km long totally. Its investment is RMB 1.43 billion yuan. This project won 2010 silver prize of the national excellent engineering survey and design award. The sunken road in the connection project is the first super-large tunnel located under the urban trunk road in China. This project has successfully solved the deformationcontrol and durability problems of large tunnel structure under the complicated construction conditions.

In recent years, Ningbo Mingzhou Bridge completed by Mr. Ma Biao in charge of design is ranked first in the world of long-span double-limb steel arch bridge. And Shanghai Minpu Bridge has fully showed the intensification characteristics. The innovationstructureof the bridge has realized the breakthrough in the key technologies with many patents. The successful construction of bridge has powerfully promoted the technological progress of long-span double-layer highway bridges, and has played an important demonstration and leading role for the bridges towards the sustainable development in China.

In the important development stages of China's road traffic, especially urban road traffic, he has successively taken charge of design and consultation of a batch of high-grade, pivotal road traffic projects, such as Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway (Shanghai Section), overall design and Puxi Northeast Section Engineering of Shanghai Middle Ring Road, Foshan 1st Ring Expressway, Wuxi Inner Ring Expressway, Nanjing South Railway Station Integrated Traffic Hub, Shanghai South Railway Station Integrated Municipal Supporting Facilities, Pudong Airport 1st and 2nd Phase Municipal Supporting Facilities.

In the field of automobile R & D in China, he has successively been responsible for the design of pioneering projects such as Shanghai Volkswagen proving ground and Shanghai General Motors proving ground, filling in the blank of comprehensive passenger vehicle R & D test base in China, and making important contributions to the progress of road traffic technology in China.

He has won dozens of design and technology awards, including Zhan Tianyou Award, National Excellent Engineering Design Silver Award, National Excellent Survey and Design Award, provincial and ministerial level science and technology progress award. He is the editor-in-chief of one National (industry) standard and one local (industry) standard, as well as the co-editor of one National (industry) standard and three monographs. He has published many papers and obtained multiple patents in combination with engineering innovation.