Terracon Begins 800 Bridges Project

Terracon has begun geotechnical engineering and laboratory  services for the Missouri Safe & Sound Bridge Improvement  Project as part of the Missouri Bridge Partners design-build team.  Terracon is the geotechnical consultant on the design contract and a  subconsultant to Parsons Transportation Group. The Safe &  Sound program will replace or rehabilitate 802 of Missouri's  lowest-rated bridges, with at least one in every county, within the  next five years. To complete the  investigations, Terracon assembled a team of engineers and field  technicians from its St. Louis, Columbia, Springfield and Kansas  City, Mo., offices as well as the Bettendorf, Des Moines and Cedar 

Rapids, Iowa, offices. "Our goal as a  subconsultant is to provide reliable geotechnical data for the  design-build team," said David Harwood, P.E., senior project  principal. "Terracon's capabilities and resources are especially  suited to the demands of a multi-site design-build project, which  requires successfully responding to intensive workloads, deadlines  and budgets."

Other major  participants on the Missouri Bridge Partners team include: Zachry  American Infrastructure, Fred Weber, Inc., Clarkson Construction,  HNTB and Infrastructure Corporation of America. Total costs for the  Safe & Sound program are estimated at $400 million to $600  million, and project completion is expected in October  2011.

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