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Today’s Bridge Company
MoDOT Meeting April, 2014
Great Traditions – Bridge Companies
Bridge Companies flourished
in the decades between 1860
and1910.
Designer/Fabricator/Construct
or
Dozens and dozens of
companies in numerous
states.
American Bridge consolidation
in 1901 (28 companies).
Produced innovation and
experimentation, especially
truss bridge types.
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Local History
Kansas City Bridge & Iron
Kansas City Bridge Company
Midland Bridge Company
Stupp Bros.
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Buffalo Road Bridge
Ray County, Missouri
Built 1908
Kansas City Bridge Company
U.S. Bridge History
Founded as American
Culvert in 1936
Herman & Ted
Rogovin
Began making bridges
in 1948
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Location
Cambridge, Ohio
Juncture of I-70 & I77
10 Acre Campus
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AISC Certified Fabricating Shops
CNC Shape Line
Process
CNC Plate Line Process
Highway Bridge Shops
Post & Beam Railing
Shop
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60-Year Bridge Portfolio
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Steel Post & Beam Railings
Supplied Bridge Items & Accessories
Multi-Span Highway Beam Bridges
Short Span Steel Beam Bridges
Short & Medium Span Steel Truss Girder Bridges
60-Year Portfolio
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Steel Truss Bridges
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Popular Economical Solution 100 years ago.
So why are they still being built today?
Who’s building them?
What makes them different than bridges from 75 years ago?
11th Street Bridge
Montague, MA
Built 1915
Eastern Bridge & Structural Co.
Recent Steel Truss Bridge Projects
Sauk River Bridge
Snohomish County, WA
Memorial Bridge connecting
New Hampshire & Maine
130th & Torrence Rail Bridge
Chicago DOT
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Nebraska/Iowa DOT’s
Mt. Si Bridge
King County, WA
Eggner’s Ferry Bridge
Emergency, KYTC
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Shallow Attractive Clear Spans
Solve a special problem for sites that present a
challenging combination of roadway & bridge
parameters that can benefit from a long clear span
and shallow superstructure depth.
Provide an aesthetic appearance that is appreciated
by users of the facility at the roadway level and by
stakeholders that experience the bridge from other
view points on or near the crossing.
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Project Suitability
Low-volume rural highways or city streets.
Facilities with three traveled lanes or less.
Spans between 100 ft. to 200 ft. for low trusses (half).
Spans between 160 ft. to 300 ft. for high trusses
(through):
When the superstructure depth, combined with profile
grade parameters, greatly impact the project footprint.
When piers are not desired.
When prefabrication can save time in construction.
Where site staging is limited … or delivery access is
difficult.
Where a visibility or aesthetics are important.
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Differences
State Departments of Transportation (PennDOT
1903)
Association of State DOT’s (AASHO 1914)
Decades of Material, Stability, Reliability, Corrosion
Protection and Safety Research
National Bridge Inspections
Crash Tested Railings
Specifically: Fatigue, Redundancy and Gusset Plate
Design
Collaboration
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Collaboration
Feasibility Assessments
Programming Costs
Specifications & Schematic
Details
Preliminary Engineering
Modeling & Rendering
Bid Quotations & Information
Engineering of Record (EOR)
Design & Plan Submittals
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Collaboration …
Construction
Phase Submittals
On-Site
Installation
Assistance
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Business Structure
5 USB Regional Sales
Managers
Contech Partnership
Expanded Coverage
Broader Markets
More Technology
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New US Bridge Website
New Design
Engineer Centric
Model Specifications
Drawings & Details
Bridge Models
Structure Depth Tool
DOT Manual/Standards
and Steel Spec. Links
www.usbridge.com
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New US Bridge Website
www.usbridge.com
Thank you
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Nelson RussellRegional Sales Manager
3862 Davis Ford Road
Marysville, TN 37804
Cell: (865) 808-4305
E-mail: [email protected]
Dennis Gonano, P.E.Director of Engineering
201 Wheeling Ave., PO Box 757
Cambridge, Ohio, 43725
Office: (740) 432-6334 x249
E-mail: [email protected]
