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Epoxy-coated reinforced steel bars help prevent salt water corrosion |

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Floating equipment played an important role in construction |

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