R. L. (Bob) Reed

1926-2005

BSCE 1946 U.T. Austin

Ensign U. S. Navy

V-12 Program

THD D-5 (1947–1985)

Apprentice Engineer

Senior Inspector

Designing Engineer

Senior Designing Engineer

Engineer of Bridge Design

Humility

Duty

Love

Loop 12 South of Dallas

Urban Expressways Fort Worth, TX Late 1940s Early 1950s

Corpus Christi Harbor U.S. 181

Pecos River Bridge U.S.90

New Harbor Bridge

design squad created

September 1954

Destroyed by

Hurricane Alice

June 26, 1954

1954

D-5 Senior Bridge Designing Engineers

D. C. Greer promises: New High Bridge to let in September

August 3, 1955

Commerce & Buena Vista Over T&NO Railroad – San Antonio, TX

Designed by Bob Reed 1956 Completed August 1959

December 1959

THD & Ferguson Lab

Full Scale Beam Tests

IH30/IH635 interchange construction in Dallas, Texas

Student Satoshi Kashimi

Prof. John Breen

Engineer Alan Matejowsky

Ferguson Lab ca. 1971 (?)

One-sixth scale model tests

First balanced cantilever

segmental box constructed

in the US

New JFK Memorial Causeway Bridge ca.1972 (?)

JFK Memorial Causeway Completed 1973

Loop 360

Over Lake Austin

Pennybacker Bridge

Completed 1982

Ferguson Lab 1983

Some Bridge Facts:

Texas has 33,400 State and

Interstate bridges,

That is 15,900 more

bridges than any other

state.

60% of these bridges were

built during Bob Reed’s

career with THD.