Top 10 Bridges 2014
Roads & Bridges' Top 10 Bridge awards, created in 2000, recognize the top projects in North America. Each year, nominations are submitted to the R&B editorial staff, which determines the Top 10 list based on project challenges, impact to region and scope of work.
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When putting together a complicated 3-D puzzle, you really cannot build around a missing piece.
As FIGG and PCL Civil Constructors were attempting to…
December 15, 2014
Postal delivery workers aren’t the only ones who work year-round in all conditions.
The crews of Kiewit Infrastructure West working on the Northern…
December 15, 2014
When it came time to replace the Henry G. Gilmerton Bridge in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in 2009, the project team had very strict…
December 15, 2014
The North Torrey Pines Road Bridge, built in 1933, was classified as structurally and seismically deficient in 1990, receiving a sufficiency rating…
December 15, 2014
Downtown Louisville is home to an intersection of three interstate systems, I-65, I-64 and I-71, and three corresponding bridges taxed to capacity.…
December 15, 2014
One of the primary trucking routes on the West Coast is
bringing in a major haul. California’s I-5 is getting a new
1,942-ft-long bridge. The…
December 15, 2014
You want to follow a trail. The design of the Elk Grove
Creek Trail Crossing was infl uenced by the existing trail
space topography at the site, as…
December 15, 2014
Public transportation in Portland will soon have a bridge
to call its own. When complete, the Tilikum Crossing
will be the longest car-free transit…
December 15, 2014
There are times when something special is needed to do
all the heavy lifting. The 3,300-ton structure was lifted
55 ft into place using 900-ton…
December 15, 2014
The new dual bridges span a wetland, river and three
railroad tracks. To maximize effi ciency of the bridge
design, the team chose a modifi ed 77-in…
December 15, 2014
