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PEARL  HARBOR  MEMORIAL  BRIDGE  REPLACEMENTNew  Haven,  Connecticut

Originally built in 1958, Connecticut’s New Haven Interchange, was designed to carry 90,000 vehicles per day. Currently handling close to 150,000 vehicles per day, the old design was not meeting the area’s traffic needs. Contract E includes the reconstruction of the I-95/I-91/Route 34 Interchange, which is the largest project by scope to be undertaken by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

To efficiently build this project, O&G

Industries/Tutor-Perini, JV chose the EFCO PLATE GIRDER ® for the forming and support solutions to construct the 85 columns and 34 pier caps on this demanding project. Each of the round columns required custom chamfer and a flared transition section between the round column and the cap. Jointly EFCO and O&G/TP worked up a forming plan using standard round column forms and specially designed custom transition forms. The three sets of custom flare forms were cycled with various setups of standard equipment to efficiently form the varying height piers for the 34 pier caps on the project. EFCO also supplied two sets of self-spanning PLATE GIRDER forming solutions to form the concrete pier caps on the three stem bents.

The project includes the reconfiguration of the Interchange, construction of twelve ramps, removal of twenty-one bridges, construction of eighteen new bridges, widening of three bridges and construction of twenty-one retaining walls. The contract is valued at $357 million and is estimated to be completed by November 2016.

Mike Daley......................... Project ManagerLarry Doyon ..........General SuperintendentBob Nardi............Structure SuperintendentNick Carrieri .....Formwork SuperintendentSteve Kulla .....EFCO Sr. Territory ManagerLouis Szabo ..............EFCO Field Supervisor Joel Lindberg ....................... EFCO Engineer “

In addition to the competitive price, we

chose EFCO based on their experience

and background and we are confident

they could handle this job.

Kevin Bernard, P.E.Senior Structural Project Engineer

O&G Industries

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BRIDGES & HIGHWAYS

EFCO Support Brackets are mounted on the column using EFCO’s Bolt Thru

Tube Support System.

Special flared column capitals were designed

to tightly fit-up to standard EFCO Column

forms to create this unique look.