Transportation

Building Bridges to Handle the Heat – On the Road with Randy Reimer

Welcome to “On the Road with Randy Reimer”, a Q&A series featuring Hamilton Kent’s director of Sales

When Chicago’s DuSable Bridge overheated in early July, it had to be closed down and sprayed with cold water before it could be reopened for boats and two levels of road traffic. The double-decker steel bridge was apparently exposed to surface temperatures above 100°F that week, causing the bridge’s expansion joints to swell until they could no longer move.

How to Keep the World’s Longest Floating Bridge Afloat

If there was ever a good test of the effectiveness of your expansion joints, it would be to recruit 7,000 cyclists, 12,000 runners and 27,000 pedestrians onto the world’s longest floating bridge in its inaugural 24 hours.