Crews Place Final Span at Genoa Bridge Replacement

摘要

A little over 20 months after the 1.1-km-long Polcevera viaduct in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and caused 43 deaths, the last span of its replacement went up the week of April 27. Bad weather and the coronavirus frustrated the contractor's ambitions to complete steelwork erection as originally planned by February, but construction has still been rapid since its start last April. Fast-tracking multiple operations, nonstop work at the site and individuals putting in 16 to 18 hours a day helped maintain the pace of construction, says Francesco Poma, the project director of the joint venture PerGenova. But given the enormity of the bridge disaster, "a sense of duty" was also in the mix, he adds.