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The War on Corrosion

Watch how the Bay Bridge battles the ravages of corrosion, from the top of the 525-foot-tall SAS tower to inside the concrete decks of the 1.2-mile-long Skyway.


Watch how we’re building the Yerba Buena Island Transition Structure, including a massive concrete pour and how we made that concrete stronger with steel tendons.


Read the Skyway Tendon Corrosion Reports.

Latest News

SEISMIC JOINTS AT OAKLAND TOUCHDOWN

Watch as crews install the seismic joint that will connect the Skyway to the Oakland Touchdown. The nearly 80-ft-wide joint is an important seismic feature of the new Bay Bridge, allowing the bridge to expand and contract up to 1 meter, while still keeping the frames solid. The newly installed joint covers the East Span’s hinge pipe beams, another state-of-the-art seismic innovation. Embedded deep within the roadway, hinge pipe beams act as seismic lightening rods, absorbing seismic energy in an earthquake.

BAY BRIDGE MAINTENANCE TRAVELERS

Crews have installed four of five large moving scaffolds, known as "travelers", which will be used to maintain the new East Span. The motorized travelers are suspended from tracks beneath the bridge, providing safe access to the workers who will conduct bridge inspections, repairs and painting operations.The fifth and final traveler is scheduled to be installed this summer. Watch how the travelers were built and transported from Southern California.

Statement in response to media coverage of welds in the Self-Anchored Suspension Span tower

There are millions of welds on the bridge, and this issue involved about 20 of them. This is not a safety problem, and these welds do not affect structural stability. We have consulted with top industry experts, and we are on top of the problem.This is not an unusual issue, and this will not affect the schedule for opening the bridge.

BAY BRIDGE ROD UPDATE

For the latest on the ongoing investigation into the broken rods on the new East Span of the Bay Bridge, click here.

Read the SF Chronicle Op-Ed here.

Self-Anchored Suspension Span Update

American Bridge/Fluor has finished painting the SAS main cable, and removed the footbridges the week of April 22.

Watch how crews painted the main cable and its 200 steel-wire suspender ropes. White was selected by architects to reflect the container cranes found at the nearby Port of Oakland.

Watch the load transfer media event

Take an exclusive look inside the SAS cable anchorage.

The Bay Bridge Will Be Closed Labor Day Weekend 2013

The bridge will be closed to take the original East Span out of service and to open the new East Span to traffic. Check back often for information about the closure and transit planning/ transportation alternatives.


Want to celebrate the opening of this iconic bridge by walking, running or biking across the new East Span? Visit BayBridgeCelebration.com for more information

FINAL DECK SECTION OF NEW BAY BRIDGE NOW IN PLACE

Oakland Touchdown Construction Update

The final deck section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s new East Span was poured into place March 9, marking another milestone in the completion of the new East Span. Watch how 136 trucks delivered enough concrete to fill a section of bridge deck roughly the size of three football fields. Read the press release.

SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON BAY BRIDGE DESIGN

From the single, elegant tower to the unique asymmetric shape of the Self-Anchored Suspension Span, the new Bay Bridge is a testament to innovative design and aesthetics. On November 29, the second installment of the free Joseph Nicoletti Lecture Series focused on the aesthetics of the new East Span and how the design of the forthcoming engineering icon came to be. Clive Endress (Senior Landscape Architect), Michael Fitzpatrick (Bridge Architect from T.Y. Lin International) and Donald MacDonald (of Donald MacDonald Architects) discussed the innovative look of California’s largest public works project.
Watch the lecture. Watch the Q & A Session.

 

Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the first lecture series about the complexities of load transfer and materials testing.

Watch the June 15 webinar about testing protocols and procedures.

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