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Epoxy-coated reinforced steel bars help prevent salt water corrosion

Floating equipment played an important role in construction

Ford Island and Halawa transition spans with floating pontoon section
From geotechnical engineering to operational facilities

For this initiative, PB's many roles included:

  • Performing the geotechnical engineering investigations
  • Preparing project plans and specifications, environmental site assessments and regulatory permit applications
  • Supporting construction with services including geotechnical quality control, shop drawing review and preparing as-built drawings

The completed project includes:

  • 1,110-meter-long (3,638-foot-long), pile-supported fixed bridge element and 315-meter-long (1,035-foot-long) movable bridge element
  • 285-meter-long (930-foot-long) retractable floating draw span providing a 200-meter-wide (650-foot-wide) navigational channel-the world's largest movable span
  • Movable bridge element: Two movable transition spans connecting the floating draw span with the fixed bridge
  • Fixed bridge element: 30-meter-wide (100-foot-wide) boat channel with a 9-meter (30-foot) vertical clearance
  • 1,175 meters (3,860 feet) of approach roadways
  • Control house, containing controls for the movable bridge components and the roadway traffic gates and signals
  • Sentry house, with vehicle turnaround located on the bridge
  • Shoreside facilities: a major arterial highway intersection, and a 610-meter-long (2,000 foot-long) roadway extension on Ford Island that includes a roundabout (rotary) intersection and a bikeway/pedestrian tunnel.
   
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