Project Summary

Meet one of the longest clear-span plate girder bridges we have ever set. Ever. Part of a $20.7 million project to extend Hinckley Drive (also known as State Road 79) by almost a full mile to make a new connection with State Road 108, this project was a very heavy lift — literally. We spliced each girder line as a complete unit on the crane pad next to the crane. Each line then had to be passed out with the Kobelco SL6000 in super heavy lift configuration to a second crawler crane which crawled the load to a specific location. Other cranes were required to help with girder stability until more lines were erected and connected to each other.