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The restoration of the Arlington Memorial Bridge had to be completed within a tight, 1,000-day schedule, with traffic continuing to drive across the structure throughout the project. But the design-build team did get some initial assistance from a somewhat unexpected source.
The National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division - the bridge's owner and the administrator of the rehabilitation project, respectively - developed the design documents to roughly 60% completion before the design-build contract was awarded. For Ken Butler, P.E., the chief bridge engineer for AECOM's North American Complex Bridge Practice, this was only the second time in more than 20 years of working on alternative delivery projects that he had seen clients initiate that level of design development. |