Saturday, November 23, 2013

Jupiter bridge construction earns national recognition | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

Nice to have national recognition of this sort. Click title for link to article by Jodie Wagner.
Roads & Bridges, a 103-year-old trade publication that covers the transportation, construction and maintenance marketplace, selected the Jupiter project — completed in February — as well as nine others based on their use of innovation to overcome specific design or construction challenges.
Construction on the project involved placing temporary work trestles at each of the four bridge locations. The trestles were built so the cranes used to demolish the old structures and build the new ones were able to move over the top of the structure with no impact to the waterway below, the FDOT said.
“Whenever we do projects like this, we always make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment,” said Chuck McGinness, FDOT spokesman.