Broadway Bridge / Portland Streetcar
Portland, Oregon
Start Date: March 2010
End Date: March 2011
This project will take the Portland Streetcar from the Pearl District across the Broadway Bridge. Work included replacing the existing bridge deck with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) deck panels, structural steel replacement, and mechanical work on the bridge's bascule spans. The high point of the project was the team's success in completing a complicated and demanding work schedule on the bascule span of the bridge during a 60-day bridge closure – which involved staging work so the 100-year-old Willamette River bridge could be lifted every four days or so to let ships pass through to an upriver grain elevator.
