Yesterday afternoon, crews from Sundt took down the barricades to the West 7th Street Bridge in Fort Worth, Texas, opening the thoroughfare to traffic for the first time in nearly four months. The bridge, which links downtown Fort Worth with the city’s cultural district, was supposed to be closed into November, however Sundt’s bridge construction experts adopted an aggressive schedule and innovative construction techniques in order to open lanes for traffic a month early.
“Our team did a fantastic job with this project,” Sundt Senior Vice President and Texas District Manager John Carlson said. “We promised the people of Fort Worth, and our client the Texas Department of Transportation, that we would deliver this project safely and efficiently, and our team exceeded everyone’s expectations.”
The West 7th Street Bridge was built with precast, post-tensioned concrete arches – making it the first of its kind in Texas. Each of the 12 arches measures 163 feet long and weighs more than 300 tons. Sundt built the arches offsite over a period of several months and moved them into place one by one before the old bridge was demolished and the new one was constructed in its place. Click here to read more about the arch placement and see a short video.