Karen I. Westphalen, P.E. worked as a civil engineer for close to ten years. Now she has returned to her long-time passions of audio production and photography, to produce engaging website content for architecture, engineering, and construction firms. Among other things, this blog will feature slideshows about the reconstruction of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon. See Blog Archive, right side, to find Sellwood Bridge posts. They link to the SiteSpecificMedia youtube channel.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Sellwood Bridge Construction (Slideshow 9)
On January 19, 2013, Multnomah County (Oregon), the Slayden/Sundt Joint Venture, and Omega Morgan completed a historic task in moving the 1100-foot long, 88-year-old Sellwood Bridge truss northward along a curved path, onto new piers, to become a temporary bridge. Maybe you saw it on TV or read about it in the local newspaper, or maybe you wandered over to Sellwood that day and saw the event yourself - so with Slideshow #9 I tried to cover some angles that might not have been as widely presented, and I tried to go into more technical detail, to show something you might not have seen. To view Slideshow #9, click on this link.
Kudos to everyone who worked around the clock during the week that the Sellwood Bridge was closed, moved and re-opened in a new location.
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