Crews are set to begin paving, landscaping and other final work on April 19 for the $7 million Bridge Street Bridge replacement project in Gardiner, Maine—the city’s second accelerated slab and girder bridge construction project. The team relocated a major utility duct bank before laterally sliding the 700-ton single span structure onto its foundation last fall.
Consolidated Communication’s major utility duct bank and trunk line from their central office—located less than a block away—cross the bridge. “That feeds central Maine for telecommunications so they could not take any outage,” says Tim Merritt, principal for Stantec, engineer of record for the bridge projects.