Collaborate Disseminate
When you think of driving up or down an embankment, do you ever wonder how much foam you’re currently driving on? Probably not, because it hardly seems like a suitable …read more Continue reading Bridging The Gap Between Dissimilar Road Types With Foam
Every day roughly 178 million people in the US travel over bridges in need of “urgent” repair. Continue reading Repairing All the ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges in the US Would Take More Than 80 Years
About two months ago I rode my bike to work like any other day, but on the way home a construction project seemed to have spontaneously started at one of the bridges that I pass over. Three lanes had merged into one which, for a federal highway, seemed like a poorly planned traffic pattern for a such a major construction project. As it happens, about an hour after I biked across this bridge that morning both outside sections of the bridge fell into the water. There was no other physical damage that seemed to explain why parts of a bridge …read more
Continue reading Local Infrastructure: The Devil is in the Details
About two months ago I rode my bike to work like any other day, but on the way home a construction project seemed to have spontaneously started at one of the bridges that I pass over. Three lanes had merged into one which, for a federal highway, seemed like a poorly planned traffic pattern for a such a major construction project. As it happens, about an hour after I biked across this bridge that morning both outside sections of the bridge fell into the water. There was no other physical damage that seemed to explain why parts of a bridge …read more
Continue reading Local Infrastructure: The Devil is in the Details