Resiliency and Rapid Bridge Replacement

CMC’s Jason Lloyd on the lessons learned after flooding destroyed a critical bridge in Adams County, Colo.
Roads & Bridges spoke to Jason Lloyd, CMC’s director of engineering and technical services, at the 2026 International Bridge Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md.

Lloyd, a P.E. and Ph.D., presented on rapid bridge replacement after devastating floods: designing for sustainability and resiliencies. During his presentation, he discussed the principles of sustainable and resilient design, and he also compared GalvaBar to hot dip galvanized rebar.

About the Author

Gavin Jenkins, Head of Content

Head of Content

Gavin Jenkins is an award-winning journalist based in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington PostThe AtlanticVICE, Narrative.lyPrevention, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Beijing Review

In 2020, two stories he wrote for Pitt Med Magazine earned three Golden Quill Awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. “Surviving Survival” won Excellence in Corporate, Marketing and Promotional Communications – Written, Medical/Health, while “Oct. 27, 2018: Pittsburgh’s Darkest Day, and the Mass Casualty Response” won Excellence in Written Journalism, Magazines – Medical/Health, as well as the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award: Magazines, a Best in Show award.

After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2003, he covered sports for the Bedford Gazette, in Bedford, Pa., and the Martinsville Bulletin, in Martinsville, Va. In 2006, he returned to Pittsburgh to write for Trib Total Media. Based out of the Kittanning Leader Times, he worked for the Trib for two years, and then he moved to Shenzhen, China, to teach English and freelance. After two years in China, he earned an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh.

When he's not at work, he's usually playing with his border-collie mix, Bob.

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