The team of Arup and CFC has been tapped to complete engineering work on the new $930 million U.S. Route 181/Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi, Texas. Arup-CFC takes over for original engineer-of-record FIGG Bridge Engineering, which was removed from the design-build project in February at the request of the Texas Dept. of Transportation over concerns about the firm’s involvement in the fatal March 2018 collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University.
According to a TxDOT statement, Flatiron/Dragados, the joint venture leading the project, selected Arup-CFC to lead a team of experts tasked to review, recertify and complete design of the cable-stayed bridge’s signature six-lane, 1,661-ft-long main span, which will rise just over 200 feet above the Corpus Christi ship canal, and be supported by towers up to 538 ft tall. Flatiron/Dragados has previously stated that it anticipates no major changes to the existing design.