OSAKA -- The American Society of Civil Engineers has picked Kansai International Airport as one of 10 "millennium monuments" in the world built over the past 100 years, according to sources close to the ASCE.
The ASCE, the most prestigious civil engineering society in the world, with 120,000 members, chose Kansai airport, the first in the world with foundations built underwater, as the "millennium monument" in the airport category.
Other landmark "millennium" construction projects to be honored by the ASCE include the Empire State Building in New York, the Panama Canal, as well as the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge, both in the United States. Kansai airport is the only structure in Japan chosen by the ASCE.