Bridges : Long Span Bridge Design

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2013   Brooklyn Bridge - Approaches and Ramps Rehabilitation
Brooklyn, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
URS Corporation
Design for redecking 7 steel approach structures, ramp structures, and approach roadway on brick arches. Rehabilitation of substructure. In-depth inspection of bridge and towers.

2012   San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Suspension Bridge Design
San Francisco, California
California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS)
TY Lin/Moffatt & Nichol (JV); MacDonald Architects
Design of world’s longest single-tower, self-anchored suspension bridge; first in US. Largest earthquake load imposed on a bridge.

2009   Bronx-Whitestone Bridge - Deck Widening and Cable Replacement Study
Bronx, New York
MTA NYC Transit Authority/TBTA
Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas/WAI (JV)
Conceptual designs for deck widening and cable replacement with analysis of their effects on bridge components, traffic flow, cost, and aesthetics.
 
   Manhattan Bridge - Lower Roadway Rehabilitation Design and Construction Support Services
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
WAI Prime
Design and construction support for replacement of lower roadway, including framing, deck, substructure, anchorages, towers, lighting, fire standpipe, and traveler.

2008   Aerial Tramway - Tower and Anchorage Design
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Delaware River Port Authority
WAI Prime
Design of innovative aerial tramway connecting Philadelphia and Camden.
 
   Metrorrey Light Rail Viaduct - Line 2
Monterrey, Mexico
Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey
WAI Prime; Grupo GP Construction
Design-build for 4-mile-long elevated precast-concrete segmental viaduct, including design of platform structures for six elevated stations, for extension of light rail system.
 
   Triborough Bridge - Dehumidification and Reanchoring of Cable Strands
New York, New York
Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority
WAI Prime
Design of dehumidification system, re-anchoring of strands, condition survey for additional strands, anchorage rehabilitation, concrete and steel repairs.

2007   Bronx-Whitestone Bridge - Deck Replacement Design and Aerodynamic Study
Bronx, New York
MTA Bridges & Tunnels/TBTA
WAI Prime
Design of lighter steel orthotropic replacement deck essential to stiffening system. Coordination with design of wind fairings for aerodynamic enhancement.
 
   Moses Wheeler Bridge
Stratford, Connecticut
Connecticut Department of Transportation
STV Incorporated
Technical consultant for concept development and final design of 3,000-foot-long precast segmental concrete box-girder bridge carrying 6 lanes of I-95 over the Housatonic River.

2004   Bronx-Whitestone Bridge - Wind Fairings
Bronx, New York
MTA Bridges & Tunnels/TBTA
WAI Prime
Major reconstruction of 2,300-foot main span to improve aerodynamic stability and reduce excessive dead load strain on cable. Largest civil application of composites to date.
 
   Manhattan Bridge - East Side Rehabilitation Design and Seismic Retrofit
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
WAI Prime
Final phase of East Side main-span rehabilitation, including torsional stiffening of suspended spans, reconstruction of approach roadway framing, replacement of lower roadway.
 
   Manhattan Bridge - North Span Rehabilitation Design and Construction Support
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
WAI Prime
Design and construction support for completion of north span rehabilitation. Replacement of subway framing, stringers, upper roadway deck; stiffening of main span; bikeway.

2003   Tappan Zee Bridge - Partial Deck Replacement
Tarrytown, New York
NY State Thruway Authority
WAI Prime
Resident engineering services for partial deck replacement at west approach truss spans. Miscellaneous repairs.

2001   Newark Liberty International Airport - Parking Lot E (P4) Bridge
Newark, New Jersey
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
WAI Prime
Design of new precast concrete beam bridge near Terminal C (under On Call civil and structural engineering contract).

2000   Brooklyn Bridge - Deck Replacement
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
WAI Prime; Yonkers Contracting Company
Emergency redecking of suspended spans, rehabilitation of 200 floor beams. Design, traffic maintenance, resident engineering, construction management. Fast track, design-build.
 
   Tappan Zee Bridge - Pier Protection System Replacement
Tarrytown, New York
NY State Thruway Authority
WAI Prime
Design, resident engineering, construction inspection services for protection system replacement; pile-supported platforms at main towers, new permanent bulkhead at shoreline.
 
   Throgs Neck Bridge - Approach Deck Superstructure Rehabilitation Design
New York, New York
MTA Bridges & Tunnels/TBTA
WAI Prime
Remediation design for connections of retrofitted orthotropic deck to original steel approach structures that were cracking and had failed.

1999   Brooklyn Bridge - Franklin Square Bridge Retrofit
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
URS Grenier Woodward Clyde
Aesthetic retrofit of Roebling structure with structural steel arches to support overloaded original trusses without altering them. Seismic analysis and rating.
 
   Manhattan Bridge - West Side Approaches and Suspended Spans Rehabilitation Design
New York, New York
NYC Department of Transportation
Edwards and Kelcey
Rehabilitation of west side approaches and suspended spans, one of several large contracts for bridge carrying 7 vehicular lanes and 4 rapid transit tracks.
 
 
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