According to the project team working on the design and construction of the new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi, Texas, everything is on schedule for its 2025 opening.
According to Flatiron/Dragados, the team behind the project, work continues on the new bridge, which is designed to withstand hurricane force winds. It is also being built with materials meant to last up to 170 years.
The cable-stayed precast concrete segmental bridge is being built symmetrically using a method called “Balanced Cantilever Construction.” The bridge, built by that method, does not require scaffolding or support beneath when the two sides meet over the ship channel.
“All of the anchorage is at the towers and within the segments and there's nothing in the water,” Flatiron/Dragados spokesperson Lynn Allison said. “It will be a much taller bridge than the existing bridge and a much wider bridge at the horizontal level.”
The current bridge has 138 feet of clearance beneath it, whereas the new bridge will raise it to 205 feet of space above the water.
Flatiron and Dragados as a team have built 32 cable-stayed bridges worldwide, with ten being in the United States. They have worked on three cable-stayed bridges together.
The project is about a year away from being finished, according to Allison. The bridge is expected to be open to traffic by late next spring.
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Source: KIII-TV Corpus Christi
