Jumping on the Christmas train.

Okay so it has been a little while and I have honestly not been too busy with work but I have been pretty busy enjoying life. For me that means a lot of doing stuff outdoors (biking, skiing and even joined a rock gym too). 

 

An engineer playing with legos and wearing a star wars shirt, it seems so out of place right! 

Since these only take a few minutes I figured it was time to make an update again.

Just wrapping up a few inspection reports for RIDOT. Currently wrapping up a prestressed concrete I-beam ramp located in East Providence.

The I-195 off ramp has severe deterioration to the pier caps and columns. Timber cribbing was added a few years ago. The concrete I-beams have a few locations of spalling with sections loss to the exposed rebar and stirrups.

The best part of the inspections was that the bridge was near my favorite pizza place in Providence Fellini's.

Concrete I-Beam

I have been pretty busy the past couple weeks with design work for five bridges out in Western Mass.

A few weeks ago on I was out Providence RI inspecting the Public Street bridge. The bridge consists of 24 concrete I-Beams.

The bridge was strewn with pigeons and their debris and waste which made a messy rainy day even messier.

  

Several of the beams had spalling at the ends along with bulging elastomeric bearings and a few locations the beams were touching the abutment bridgeseats.