Best Bridge with Spans over 150 ft (46 m): SC 802 Bridge over the Beaufort River/Intracoastal Waterway

摘要

One night in 2007, a crane boom on a river barge slammed into the J. E. McTeer Bridge over the Beaufort River in South Carolina, destroying two beams and seriously damaging a third. It was one of only two bridges connecting the town of Port Royal to Lady's Island, creating a huge traffic problem. Thai Trinh, PE, engineer for Collins Engineers Inc. in Charleston, S.C., was brought in to design the new bridge, and he chose high-performance precast concrete because it met all of the cost, schedule, durability, and aesthetic goals of the project.