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Innovative and Cost Effective Repair of Highway Bridges
The State of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Maintenance Section is responsible for the mandatory safety inspection of all state and locally owned bridges. The Structures and Facilities unit is the section within Maintenance that is directly responsible for these inspections. District 5 of the FDOT comprises nine counties in central Florida, which includes Disneyworld, Kennedy Space Center and Daytona Beach. All bridges having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 6.0m (20 feet) are inspected at regular intervals not to exceed 2 years. The District is comprised of 875 Stated Owned Bridges of which 8 are movables, 25 are high level of 20.0m (65 feet) or higher and 4 are segmental concrete box girders. All inspections of state owned bridges are done by in-house bridge inspection teams lead by a Certified Bridge Inspector (CBI) or a Professional Engineer. Design resources include in-house staff from Maintenance or the District's Structures Design section, districtwide consultant contracts or individual bridge specific contracts, depending on the magnitude of the project. In addition the Tallahassee structures research group, formerly headed by Dr. Mohsen Shahawy has provided valuable resources to the District in developing bridge repair designs. The District receives a budget of approximately $4,000,000 per year to accomplish these bridge repair and rehabilitation projects throughout the nine county area. This budget amount is based on the inventory of the District's bridges. Large dollar repairs exceeding this amount or specialized types of projects can be funded by special discretionary funding approved by the Department's Maintenance Office located in Tallahassee. Most of the repair and rehabilitation work is performed by contract using the low bid process. The low bid process can be waived by executive declaration during emergency situations. The District has an in-house Heavy Bridge Crew that can undertake a great variety of work ranging from routine maintenance to fairly complex projects.
Innovative and Cost Effective Repair of Highway Bridges
The State of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Maintenance Section is responsible for the mandatory safety inspection of all state and locally owned bridges. The Structures and Facilities unit is the section within Maintenance that is directly responsible for these inspections. District 5 of the FDOT comprises nine counties in central Florida, which includes Disneyworld, Kennedy Space Center and Daytona Beach. All bridges having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 6.0m (20 feet) are inspected at regular intervals not to exceed 2 years. The District is comprised of 875 Stated Owned Bridges of which 8 are movables, 25 are high level of 20.0m (65 feet) or higher and 4 are segmental concrete box girders. All inspections of state owned bridges are done by in-house bridge inspection teams lead by a Certified Bridge Inspector (CBI) or a Professional Engineer. Design resources include in-house staff from Maintenance or the District's Structures Design section, districtwide consultant contracts or individual bridge specific contracts, depending on the magnitude of the project. In addition the Tallahassee structures research group, formerly headed by Dr. Mohsen Shahawy has provided valuable resources to the District in developing bridge repair designs. The District receives a budget of approximately $4,000,000 per year to accomplish these bridge repair and rehabilitation projects throughout the nine county area. This budget amount is based on the inventory of the District's bridges. Large dollar repairs exceeding this amount or specialized types of projects can be funded by special discretionary funding approved by the Department's Maintenance Office located in Tallahassee. Most of the repair and rehabilitation work is performed by contract using the low bid process. The low bid process can be waived by executive declaration during emergency situations. The District has an in-house Heavy Bridge Crew that can undertake a great variety of work ranging from routine maintenance to fairly complex projects.
Innovative and Cost Effective Repair of Highway Bridges
Hyman, Alan E. (author)
Construction Institute Sessions at ASCE Civil Engineering Conference 2001 ; 2001 ; Houston, Texas, United States
2001-10-08
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Innovative and Cost Effective Repair of Highway Bridges
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