Please note that this schedule is estimated and subject to change.

Watch the demonstration bridge construction. Click here to view the video from the live webcam.

Fabrication:

Aug 27 – Sept 17: Fabrication at US Bridge including hole drilling and cutting for plates, beams and diaphragms), welding stiffeners. railing fabrication

Sept 18: ship to AZZ in Canton, Ohio for galvanizing

Sept 20 – 25: Galvanizing and quality check prior to shipping to job site.

Week of September 23: Delivery to Buchanan County, Iowa job site

On-Site Bridge Construction Schedule

Aug 20 –  22: Structural removal. road closure and equipment hammer and ball

Aug 23  – 26: Begin shaping slopes

Aug 27: Begin placing fabric and riprap  Non-Woven geotextile and Class E revetment (trucks)

Aug 28 – 30: Placing riprap and fabric

Sept 3 – 4:  Bore holes for H-piles (sub contractor with rock drill

Sept 5 – 6  Tie abutment steel. Galvanized rebar, chairs, hoop steel, wire ties

Sept 9: Pour one abutment

Sept 10: Strip forms tie abutment steel

Sept 11 – 12: Tie abutment steel

Sept 13:  Pour abutment

Sept 14: Strip forms and set beams

October 3: Delivery of beams and diaphragms

October 4:  Set Beams

October 7 – 9: Install diaphragms

October 10 : Decking

October 11: Stay in place forms

October 14:  Tie steel

Oct 15:  Deck preparation and deck pour

Oct 16: Deck pour

Oct 17 – 21: Set barrier rails and posts

Oct 22 – 25: Pour approaches

Oct 28:  Cleanup

Nov. 1: Ribbon cutting ceremony on site.

Nov. 1:  Open to Traffic

Research – Directed by Dr. Karl Barth, West Virginia University and Michael Gary Barker, University of Wyoming

Oct 23 – 24: Set measuring devices in place.