Reconnected

This article describes the design and construction of the replacement bridge over Biloxi Bay. The old bridge, destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, carried close to 35,000 vehicles per day. The article describes the various challenges faced by engineers, such as ensuring that one lane of the new bridge would be open in each direction in 18 months and that the entire bridge, designed to carry three lanes in each direction, would be open in under two years. The article relates in detail how precast construction and a design-build delivery method resulted in the bridge's completion in just 22 months.

• Record URL:
  • http://pubs.asce.org/magazines/CEMag/2009/Issue_07-09/article1.htm
• Record URL:
  • http://pubs.asce.org/NR/rdonlyres/CDB17291-2F73-4BB8-B835-EAAF79869EF6/0/0709Feature.pdf
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/10480594
• Authors:
  • Cassity, Patrick
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Illustrations; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 50-57
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 79
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge design; Design build; Precast concrete
• Identifier Terms: Biloxi Bay Bridge (Mississippi)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01141288
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 2009 9:59AM