Crews began dismantling the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge in March, thus initiating the last act in a long saga to replace the 1960s-era structure located in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
In what a Skanska USA-led team says is the first-ever “energetic felling” of a New York City bridge and the city’s largest such demolition of any kind, 25,290 tons of steel remaining on the 78-year-old Kosciuszco Bridge, over Newtown Creek, were brought down on Oct. 1 using 944 small charges, detonated on bridge trusses.
Adjustments to increase the velocity of a 6,000-lb wrecking ball had its desired effect more than a week after Caltrans engineers determined that the key Highway 1 connection on California's coast had been irreparably damaged during a series of storms.