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Roadbuilding
Cranes lift girders into place on Penn.’s Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway bridge
The video below was taken on February 20 and captures the placement of the first steel girders on the bridge piers of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project (CSVT) bridge. PennLive reports that the 4,500-foot-long bridge will carry traffic over the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Union Township, Union County, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department […]
March 8, 2018
Roadbuilding
Arizona DOT uses concrete columns to test aesthetics for Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has placed a series of painted concrete columns and walls near the southwest corner of 59th Avenue and Washington Street in Phoenix to test the aesthetics of shapes and colors for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway. The sample bridge piers and sound walls “provide a full-scale view of […]
March 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
Canadian researchers say bridge safety codes lead to overbuilt bridges, higher costs
A recent study of bridge types and their design requirements conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan concluded that, in building bridges to withstand the force of an earthquake, they are being overbuilt, driving up construction costs. “We’ve determined it’s very unnecessary to design a structure with that much reinforcement,” UBC professor Shahria […]
February 13, 2017
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