Spotlight On The State Of Highway Bridge Inspection Work
One of the mainstays of state DOTs is bridge inspections. Among the various other duties that fall on these agencies, conducting the required regular, or routine, inspections of the nation’s highway bridges that are located within their borders is a major undertaking...
Finding The Right Equipment For Facilitating Bridge Inspections
Highway bridges come in a wide range of heights, widths, and lengths as well as a broad variety of construction designs. All of which means that inspecting them presents different challenges and equipment needs. But the single most important aspect of facilitating...
Bridge Access: Western United States Transportation Infrastructure
As anyone in the transportation or highway construction industry is well aware, back on November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The IIJA is also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The massive...
When It Comes To Highway Bridge Inspections, Bridge Size Matters
They take place almost every day somewhere across the country. Highway bridge inspections, that is. But the truth is that most of us never see them happen. That’s a bit different when the traffic across a bridge or overpass that we travel on our way to work is closed....
The Reason That Routine Bridge Inspections Are Never ‘Routine’
For those who work in the industry of inspecting highway bridges or repairing and maintaining them, the work can seem somewhat insignificant. For many, bridge inspections have been conducted since long before they were even born. But that wasn’t always the case, nor...
Under Bridge Platform Equipment Isn’t Just For Inspections
No one in the highway bridge construction, inspection, or maintenance industries would argue that bridge inspections are absolutely essential and critical. They would also agree that these inspections are instrumental for ensuring and preserving the safety and...
Conducting Highway Bridge Inspections: Types And Tools
Across the United States, state DOTs, engineers, and other contractors are busy working on highway bridges. This work entails routine maintenance, repairs, and even rehabilitation in many cases. And then there are the highway bridge inspections. With more than...
Not All Bridge Inspection And Repair Are For Large Bridges
It’s not news to anyone working with or on highway bridges that there’s much work to be done. In addition to routine inspections for the more than 610,000 highway bridges across the country, there are necessary maintenance and upkeep tasks that must be done. And...
Bridge Inspections: The Need For Under Bridge Access Equipment
With more than 220,000 U.S. bridges, 36 percent of them in need of repair work, and 79,500 needing to be replaced, bridge inspections, maintenance, and repair may be at an all-time high. In addition, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s...
The Changing State of Highway Bridge Inspections In The U.S.
State DOTs, engineers, contractors, and others have been regularly and routinely inspecting highway bridges in the United States for over 50 years. As the Federal Highway Administration has stated in their Highway History, “The modern highway bridge safety program...
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