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Roadbuilding
Implosion wipes away old Ky. bridge with flash of fire and smoke
This is easily one of the best bridge videos we’ve seen, offering several angles of the blast from an up close and personal perspective. The old Henry Lawrence Bridge over Lake Barkley in Trigg County, Kentucky, was demolished on the morning of April 11, WPSD Local 6 reports. The 3,104-foot bridge, which opened in 1932 […]
May 4, 2018
Roadbuilding
Penn. bridge demolition interrupted by unexpected collapse
As Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) crews worked to slowly and carefully bring down the 100-year-old Harrison Avenue Bridge in Scranton over Central Scranton Expressway on April 19, one span of the bridge came crashing down unexpectedly, WNEP News reports. The expressway had been closed to traffic for several hours before the demolition began, and […]
May 1, 2018
Roadbuilding
Crews implode historic Lake Barkley Bridge in Ky.
The old U.S. 68/KY 80 Lake Barkley Bridge in Canton, Ky., was demolished on Wednesday morning, April 11, 2018. Crews used explosives to take down the 90-year-old historic bridge. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet closed the new replacement bridge running alongside the old one during the explosion and reopened it after crews checked to […]
April 23, 2018
Roadbuilding
Drone captures implosion of N.Y.’s old Cohoes-Waterford Bridge piers
All traffic was halted on the Cohoes-Waterford Bridge on October 5 as workers imploded the six piers from the old bridge, timesunion.com reports. The bridge carries vehicles on Route 32 over the Mohawk River in New York. The New York State Department of Transportation recorded the implosion from different angles with a couple of cameras and […]
October 16, 2017
Roadbuilding
Old Hunter Station Bridge demolished for PennDOT replacement project
In the video below, taken October 4, Demtech demolishes the last of the Old Hunter Station Bridge superstructure on Route 62, which spans the Allegheny River in Tionesta Township. The demolition was part of a $23.7 million Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) bridge replacement project, which involved the construction of a new bridge approximately 100 feet […]
October 9, 2017
Roadbuilding
Bridge replacement time-lapse covers demolition, gives great view of deck placement
The video below shows time-lapse footage of the demolition and reconstruction of the 140-year-old Station Road Bridge in Hucknall, Nottingham, England, which passes over a railway. The project was done as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan. The especially interesting thing about this video is the view from the piece of equipment used to move the […]
December 23, 2016
Roadbuilding
Excavators eat away one bridge, cranes build another in CDOT replacement time-lapse
The fascinating video below, filmed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), might be our new favorite construction time-lapse. From several different angles, the video shows how Manafort Construction Co. demolished and replaced the Lindley Street bridge on the southbound side of Route 8/25. The CtPost reports that the video shows design/build construction that allowed […]
August 31, 2016
Roadbuilding
Kentucky’s Eggners Ferry Bridge implosion captured by drone
Built in 1932 and functionally obsolete, the old Eggners Ferry Bridge spanning Kentucky Lake near Aurora, Kentucky, was demolished earlier this week by the state’s transportation cabinet. According to a report from the Kentucky New Era, thousands gathered to watch the implosion of the bridge which took place Monday at 6:30 a.m. The drone video below […]
July 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Route 219 bridge demolished in 3 seconds over Cattaraugus Creek in New York
Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Transportation oversaw the implosion of the old Route 219 bridge over Cattaraugus Creek in Springville, N.Y. According to a report by WIVB TV, the bridge was imploded to make room for a $16.9 million design-build project to replace the bridge with a modern structure. Construction of the new bridge is […]
June 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Tidy explosion drops Pittsburgh’s century-old Hulton Bridge into Allegheny River
A Pennsylvania bridge with more than a century of history was demolished Tuesday morning with more than 500 explosives above the Allegheny River. The Hulton Bridge connected the eastern Pittsburgh suburbs of Oakmont and Harmarville for 107 years, but the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that it was time to make way for the new bridge in part of a $66 million project. […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
Oklahoma DOT blows up a bridge as part of expansion project
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation needed a bridge out of the way for a new highway expansion project. So what better way to get rid of it than with some explosives? ODOT blew up a portion of the bridge on US 169 near Owasso, and luckily, the department set up a camera to get the […]
December 30, 2015
Roadbuilding
Caltrans implodes San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge old east span pier
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Nov. 14 imploded the largest pier of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s old east span (Pier E3) after months of planning around minimizing environmental impact from the demolition. Engineers set off the implosion early in the morning during “slack tide” using 600 controlled charges. The effort weakened the 50-foot […]
November 15, 2015
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