The Taxiway R Bridge, Taking the Sky Train over the Planes

摘要

At Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, one of the ten busiest airports in the world, cast-inplace,post-tensioned concrete was successfully used to provide superior value, meet an aggressive constructionschedule, squeeze into a tight construction corridor, and clear span an aircraft taxiway.The City of Phoenix Aviation Department, Gannett Fleming the lead designer, Austin Bridge & Road the bridgecontractor, and Hensel Phelps Construction Company the Construction Manager-at-risk, all worked together toconstruct the world’s first transit system crossing over an active aircraft taxiway.