Ageing US bridges gave Swedish group Skanska a big start to the year as it announced two bridge projects this month worth a combined $670m.
In North Carolina, it won a $450m contract to replace the 65-year-old Lindsay C. Warren Bridge over the Alligator River in Tyrrell and Dare counties, which has been rated “structurally deficient”.
Working for the state’s department of transportation, NCDOT, Skanska will replace the 4.5km-long bridge, which swings open to let ships through, with a two-lane, fixed-span, high-rise bridge just north of the existing one.
NCDOT says the old bridge is reaching the end of its lifecycle and needs frequent inspections and maintenance, which disrupts traffic.
Work starts immediately and is expected to finish in April 2030.
Also this month, Skanska won a $220m contract from the Delaware River Port Authority to carry out the phase-three painting and rehabilitation of the Commodore Barry Bridge linking Chester, Pennsylvania and Bridgeport, New Jersey.
Opened in 1974, it carries 41,000 vehicles a day.
The scope of the bid-build project includes blast cleaning and repainting the cantilever truss, steel barriers, and overhead gantries.
Skanska will also repair and strengthen the truss members, stringers, bearings, vibration absorbers, and wind pins.
Additional work includes concrete deck repairs, protective coatings, spall repairs to piers and pier caps, and replacing 14,000 feet of electrical conduit and wiring.
This project is expected to finish in the first quarter of 2028.
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