Tag: bridge projects

Roadbuilding

Texas’ first accelerated bridge construction project set for I-635

Texas will get its first accelerated bridge construction project this month, for one of its busiest highways in the northern part of the state, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The ABC method, which has been used in recent years around the country to rapidly replace damaged or deteriorated bridges with minimal traffic disruptions, […]

August 10, 2020

Roadbuilding

New designer named for Corpus Christi’s Harbor Bridge replacement after FIGG fired

A new design team has been hired for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi, Texas, to replace FIGG Design Group. FIGG was fired from the project by the Texas Department of Transportation last year after the company was partly blamed for the fatal collapse of a pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International […]

August 5, 2020

Roadbuilding

Work on Miami’s 6-arch bridge begins as part of I-395 reconstruction

The installation of more than 1,300 auger cast piles for the signature bridge to Miami’s $802 million Interstate 395 reconstruction project is underway. The 1,025-foot suspension bridge on I-395 will have six sweeping arches – the tallest of which is 330 feet high – over Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 2nd Avenue. The bridge will be illuminated, and […]

March 9, 2020

Roadbuilding

20 Franklin County, Mass., bridges slated for $80 million in repair/replacement

The list of bridge projects includes the General Pierce Bridge, which connects the east side of Greenfield with Montague City and many more. Details here.

June 18, 2019

Roadbuilding

Three bridges receive Slag Cement Association awards

Nine outstanding construction projects that used slag cement received 2017 Project of the Year Awards from the Slag Cement Association (SCA) during the American Concrete Institute’s 2018 Spring Convention in Salt Lake City. Each project was selected by the SCA’s Technical Marketing Committee because of its exemplary and innovative uses of slag cement in concrete […]

April 13, 2018

Roadbuilding

Nebraska DOR picks projects for County Bridge Match Program

The Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) has selected project proposals for the first round of the County Bridge Match Program, which provides funding to counties for the “innovative replacement and repair of deficient county bridges.” This round provides $4 million to be distributed to 22 proposals in 32 counties and 68 bridges across the state. […]

January 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Schultz Corp. completes bridge replacement in just 9 days for Conn. DOT

Schultz Corporation of Terryville, Connecticut, was recently able to complete a bridge project for the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) in Middlefield in just nine days using accelerated bridge techniques (ABC). CTDOT says the project involved replacing a bridge built in 1920 with a 12-foot wide by 6-foot high precast concrete box culvert and joined […]

August 11, 2016

Construction Equipment

Crews pull half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place in record-breaking slide

Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. It is now the largest bridge in North America (perhaps the […]

April 14, 2014