The Texas Dept. of Transportation halted some work on its Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge replacement project in July after an independent engineering review found “significant design flaws that raise serious concerns about the safety” of the bridge.
TxDOT announced that it had temporarily suspended work on the bridge span superstructure July 15 over then-unspecified “safety issues.” The agency recently released the letter it sent to the Flatiron/Dragados joint venture building the bridge, revealing more details about the concerns. The design issues were discovered during an independent review by International Bridge Technologies (IBT), a subsidiary of French transportation engineering firm SYSTRA.