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Logan Mullaney: Introducing a Family-developed, Innovative, Semi-modular Bridge System to North America and the World
The InQuik system is gaining traction across three continents thanks both to its advantages and to Mullaney’s ability to build strong relationships.
Photo courtesy of InQuick/Logan Mullany
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The InQuik Group is all in the family. Logan Mullaney began working for his father Bruce at a young age, learning carpentry and other construction skills. Fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit, at age 21 he founded his own business building homes. He spent time in 2009 in China with his father building modular schools. After his father and uncle developed the InQuik bridge system—a prefabricated formwork tray with reinforcing steel that is placed on site and filled with concrete to create a fully cast-in-place concrete bridge structure—Logan and his brother Ben took the technology beyond Australia to the rest of the world.
“InQuik was collectively created through our family’s hard work, passion for innovation and with a like-minded solution focus,” says Bruce Mullaney. “When we introduced the system to the construction industry, we received amazement, support and encouragement, confirming that we had provided a high-quality engineered alternative to existing construction systems. Logan has been enjoying the challenge of working on sharing the vision of InQuik across the globe.”
The company built more than 200 bridges since its debut nine years ago, says Logan Mullaney, group CEO. After working with design firm Arup to verify that the system meets American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ standards, InQuik is now working with individual states to meet their specific requirements. “From our first conversations back in 2020 through today, Logan’s passion for InQuik’s potential to move bridge construction forward and his comfortable professional demeanor are directly responsible for InQuik’s growing success,” says John Eddy, Arup principal.
In 2019, the World Bank ranked the system No. 1 among modular bridge products. In 2024, Commercial Metals Company, a Fortune 500 construction solutions provider, formed a strategic partnership to deliver the technology across the U.S. “CMC values our partnership with InQuik and the opportunity it presents to combine their innovative technology with CMC’s experience in early-stage construction products and solutions to help rebuild America’s aging infrastructure and bridges,” says Mike Doucet, CMC’s senior vice president for emerging businesses.
John Emerson, construction manager with Gibson-Thomas Engineering, says InQuik’s market entry in the United States is “a real game-changer in the bridge construction industry. To bring a product that is both affordable and technologically advanced was something that this country had needed for a long time.”
Moreover, he adds, “the attention to detail, along with great customer relationships that are built, are a cut above any other bridging systems that we have seen. [Logan’s] dedication to provide a product that not only meets the needs of small townships and boroughs, but larger municipalities and states, has been a pleasure that is second to none. His understanding and knowledge of bridge design has been an unbelievable benefit to the clients we serve.”
With three brothers and two sisters, “we work together as a family,” Mullaney says. The untimely death of brother Hayden in 2018 made the survivors even closer. Ryan is focused on modular housing based on the technology while Logan and Ben are expanding InQuik into the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
One of the appealing aspects of the InQuik system is that “ultimately, it’s a system between precast and conventional,” Mullaney says. “It’s not a whole new material, just reinforced concrete in a slightly different way.”
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