Pittsburgh-based L.B. Foster Company has received a $13 million award from general contractor American Bridge Company, headquartered in Coraopolis, PA, to supply steel grid decking and galvanized drainage grating for the Walt Whitman Bridge Suspension Span & Anchorages Project.
The bridge’s original roadway will be replaced with custom engineered steel grid decking which will help enhance the structural integrity of the Delaware River span. Ready-to-install panels will be fabricated and sized for specific roadway placement to lessen traffic disruption on the busy span.
The material will be manufactured at L.B. Foster’s Fabricated Bridge Products facility in Bedford, PA. The first of seven roadway replacement stages will begin in May 2011 and be timed to meet tight project scheduling throughout the next 12 months.
The Delaware River Port Authority’s Walt Whitman Bridge is an 11,981 foot suspension span that links Philadelphia with Gloucester City, New Jersey.
via PRNewswire
