Tag: Bridge Design

Turn Your Aging Bridge into a Community Highlight

By Dan Sydow, PE Nearly 40% of the United States’ 600,000 bridges are over 50 years old, so chances are your community has an aging structure in need of replacement. But you may be able to turn an unavoidable expense into a bonus for your community, and maybe even draw in tourists. Your first priority… Read More »

Building Bridges without Tangling Traffic

By Dave Pantzlaff, PE Quite often in our world of designing bridges for clients, we come across situations where we cannot simply close the road, take out or rehabilitate the existing bridge, and provide a detour for the public while the bridge is under construction. Maybe the bridge is on a dead-end road, providing the… Read More »

Accolades Continue for Picturesque Courtney Campbell Bridge

The Ayres-designed Courtney Campbell Multiuse Trail Bridge continues to attract attention. The 3,258-foot-long pedestrian bridge, which runs adjacent to the busy Courtney Campbell Causeway in Florida, is the cover story in the current edition of the American Society of Highway Engineers’ newsletter, the ASHE Scanner. The bridge provides a safe route from Clearwater to Tampa,… Read More »