The 27th November 2009, the University of Ghent granted Professor Juan José Arenas with the Gustave Magnel Gold Medal; pretigious award given each five years to those engineers that have achieved an outstanding work made of concrete.
During the award ceremony, Juan José Arenas exposed the main concrete bridges designed by him along his career, as a prelude to the journey traveled to reach the conception, design and realization of the Third Millennium Bridge, to finally, explain the intricacies of the awarded structure.