Calling all photographers and videographers! The NCSPA Photo & Video Contest is your chance to showcase your talent and win some great prizes. Submit your best work in each of our exciting categories for a shot at winning a Visa gift card. Three prizes are awarded in each category: $100 for 1st Place, $50 for 2nd Place, and $25 for 3rd Place. Plus, one exceptional entry will be awarded the coveted “Best Of” title and a grand prize of a $250 Visa gift card!
Entries are collected till March 31st and voting begins April 1st, 2026! Contest ends April 30, 2026.
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This photo is from a phased construction bridge replacement on I-75 near Findlay, OH. The project consisted of adding 2 lanes of traffic (going from 4 lanes to 6 lanes) to the existing interstate corridor. Rather than widening the existing bridges from 2 lanes each to 3 the DOT option to replace them with a buried bridge. The buried bridge consisted of a 48' span x 21.1' rise deep corrugated structural plate structure. It was partially assembled adjacent to the bridges and then pulled into place beneath them. The structure was backfilled with the existing bridges in place. When the backfill reached the point where it was not possible to compact it, the existing bridges were removed to complete the fill. The bridge piers were left in place. Lanes were shifted above the structure as the road was widened, eliminating the need for a detour.
This is a picture of the VT Route 2B bridge crossing over the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail in St Johnsbury, VT. This buried bridge was constructed to replace a 3 span steel bridge constructed in the 1930s and had to be sized to accommodate possible future restoration of the pedestrian trail back to rail traffic as is so often the case for these types of projects. The structure has a span of 47.9 ft and rise of 26.8 ft. The existing bridge was a local landmark, so the community wanted to make sure the replacement structure was visually appealing. This was accomplished with the use of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls with colored concrete and incorporation of a decorative concrete railing to resemble the railing for the old bridge. The structure was build using precast concrete footings and an accelerated schedule to minimize the time required for a convoluted detour due to the undulating topography of the area. The project was completed ahead of schedule.
This is a 6x2 structural plate vertical ellipse carrying Lamoille Valley Rail Trail below I-91 near St Johnsbury, VT. I found this while working on a buried bridge structure about half a mile away on the same trail. This structure was built in the 1960's when the the trail was built on an old rail bed. The structure has no signs of deterioration inside or out - in spite of being located below an interstate in the northern US and being subjected to deicing salts every winter. All indications are that this structure should be able to easily achieve a 100+ year service life.
This is the inside view of one structure of twin deep corrugated structural plate 39.7' span buried bridges in Laguna Niguel, CA. The structures were built to replace a low water crossing into a community park that was frequently flooded. The buried bridges eliminated the flooding issue and also provided a signature entrance to the park. This picture was taken inside one of the structures and shows the clean lines and consistent quality of the deep corrugated plates as they are traced along the perimeter of the structure.
Decommissioned structural plate arch providing shelter from the elements in it’s retirement.
Forestry access road 600mm culvert installation in progress.
A full load of safety slope end sections shipping safely to their destination.
Barrier-free access to a historic landmark was achieved with a precision-engineered corrugated steel enclosure protecting a passenger cable incline lift on a 46% slope. The nearly 40-meter structure had to fit precisely between two fixed stations with near-zero tolerance while maintaining consistent internal clearances. ViaCon designed a modular corrugated structural plate system (8 mm) oriented perpendicular to the slope and accurately connected to both terminals. Hot-dip galvanization to DIN EN ISO 1461:2009 ensures long-term durability. Close cooperation between the architect, contractor and ViaCon enabled precise surveying, phased installation and strict quality control. The enclosure was assembled on site in just eight weeks, delivering a robust, visually coherent solution that protects the lift, improves user safety and enables barrier-free access in a sensitive heritage setting. More: viaconacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/V-1-1029-DEVP-CAS-EN-A01_LeuchtenburgCastle.pdf
Steel Structural Tunnel Liner Plate was specified by Minnesota DOT to reline twin 10' X 10' reinforced concrete box culverts. The project was in St Peter, MN on TH 22. An arch shape on steel channels was used for relining instead of round pipe. The invert of the culvert could not be raised so a hot dip galvanized horseshoe shaped arched was used to maximum the flow and not raise the invert elevation of the culvert. The culvert invert could not be raised as it would affect the hydraulics of the culvert. The entire project was constructed without disrupting any traffic. A new concrete headwall was poured around the plate arch to finish construction of the culvert.
During the construction of a new Steel Structural Plate culvert for the US Forest Service in UP of Michigan, a black bear visited the site providing important instructions on proper installation.
This 132" Corrugated Steel Pipe crane tower enclosure was used for the construction of a high rise building in downtown Minneapolis. CSP crane tower enclosers are a stay in place enclosure that allows for the crane to be placed at basement level. During the building construction process, fill is brought up around the pipe to final ground surface elevation. After the project, the crane can be disassembled from inside the pipe enclosure. After the crane is removed the CSP is filled with compacted soil. CSP played a vital role in the construction of the high rise building.
Proper compaction around CSP is important. A vibratory compactor is the compaction equipment of choice for multiple pipe installations.
The new Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, IL required underground storage to meet local permitting requirements in Cook County, IL (MWRDGC). Two CMP Detention Systems (54" - shown and 30" diameter) were chosen for their structural capacity, design flexibility and economics. In the photo above, the 54" systems sits between the larger of two buildings and the western property line and is connected to vast array of 54" CMP between the two buildings on site. The two systems provided a total storage of 61,807 CF.
The City of Bloomington, MN called for an underground detention system to be installed under a green space. The pipe was 144" solid 10-gage Aluminized Steel Pipe with 24" wide corrugated levee bands and 24" wide flat gaskets to provide for a tight-fitting band connection.What makes this large pipe installation fall under the sustainability category, is native coarse sand, meeting ASTM Class II material, was used as backfill. No special backfill was needed to be imported onto the project site. This saved the owner a substantial amount of tax dollars as well as saved several transportation trucks that would have been otherwise needed to haul off existing fill and bring in select fill.
A failing reinforced concrete box culvert needed rehabilitation. This central Iowa county chose Corrugated Steel Pipe as the answer to the problem. 64" inside diameter pipe was used to maximum the flow of the water while still allowing enough room to back grout the new pipe. Corrugated Steel Pipe can be manufactured in any pipe diameter because it is not extruded list plastic pipe or cast is set forms like concrete pipe. This allows for the most hydraulically efficient reline pipe for inlet flow culverts. The inlet and outlet of the culvert have new steel end sections as a cost-effective end treatment.
Pipe Arching process of 96" Aluminized Steel, 60' long single piece with an external chain arch machine. Another big advantage of CSP culverts is the ability to make the culvert pipe in one piece without have pipe joints.
142" X 91" CSP made in one 70' long piece. The resilience of CSP allows for a high beam strength helping in cross culverts to be installed in one piece, with not joints. This is a big advantage for CSP versus HDPE or PP culverts, particularly in cold weather culverts where freeze thaw effects on joints is a real issue. HDPE and PP have 14 times the thermal expansion of steel. High thermal expansion properties are bad from joints in cross culvert applications.
108" diameter Aluminized Pipe with 24" wide corrugated band (10 C band)
144" Aluminized Steel Pipe for Underground Detention used in the parking lot area of US Band Stadium in Minneapolis (MN Vikings).
Triple 120" Aluminized Steel Culvert with heavy gage hot-dip-galvanized (HDG) headwalls and wing walls.
Rules & Regulations:
Contestants may submit one photo or video per category to the NCSPA Photo & Video Contest. All submitted photos and videos must be the original work of the entrant and adhere to all OSHA guidelines for safety. By entering, entrants grant NCSPA the right to use all submitted materials in marketing and informational materials. All contestants must be 18 years of age or older and be a U.S. Citizen. Photos must be submitted in their original state and cannot be altered in any way, including but not limited to removing, adding, reversing, or distorting subjects within the frame. AI-generated photos and videos will not be accepted. Violators will be removed from the contest, stripped of any prizes, and banned from future contests.
Entries must be submitted via the official contest channel; submissions through other channels will be deleted. Entries will be judged by NCSPA members and the general public via online voting. All decisions are final. NCSPA reserves the right to disqualify any entry deemed inappropriate or non-conforming to contest rules.
Submissions will not be accepted after the posted deadline. Prizes are non-transferable and must be collected by the winner. Winners agree to participate in reasonable promotional activities related to the contest, including, but not limited to, providing photographs and/or videos of themselves with their prize for use in NCSPA marketing and promotional materials. Winners will be contacted via the email address provided at entry. If no response is received within five (5) business days, a new winner will be selected, and the previous winner will forfeit all rights to the prize. Winners must have an eligible U.S. address to win. This contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.