A 1.1-mile bridge carrying 160,000 vehicles per day on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through an industrial district—and over a long-polluted waterway—might not be the first place to look for green design and construction approaches.
But the New York State Dept. of Transportation’s construction of the replacement for the I-278 Kosciuszko Bridge—a project set to cost nearly $900 million and well along in its first phase—has a big sustainable design component, and could bring lasting environmental benefits to a long-distressed area.