Politics & Government
RIDOT Receiving Kudos on Stillwater Viaduct Bridge Rehab
The $9.4 million 2012 Stillwater Viaduct Rehabilitation of the 80-year-old Rte. 116 bridge over the Woonasquatucket River has won the Best Rehabilitated Bridge award from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute.
“Maintaining the look of the old bridge was very important to the owner,” said Bharat Patel, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin’s engineer of record for the project, according to a release on the PCI's website. They preserved the bridge's features with precast concrete, finishing a month ahead of schedule.
The project is also a contender for the America’s Transportation Awards competition.
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According to the RIDOT's entry for that award, the bridge had been identified by RIDOT as “severely deteriorated". The precast process also saved the RIDOT $110,000 and winnowed what would have been a three-year conventional project down to seven months.
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