Transportation
Bridges and Highway Structures
Foundational ideas for rebuilding infrastructure and providing the expertise to address bridge and related structural challenges at any stage of the asset's life cycle.
Strengthening the Way Forward
Both reducing the number of poor bridges and ensuring new bridge infrastructure is built to stand the test of time is an ongoing priority throughout the U.S. Our engineers have the tools and the talent to address even your most complex bridge-related challenges.
The number of bridges needing significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement is an ongoing priority throughout the U.S. To address this challenge, a solid foundation is needed to explore ideas, define an approach and move forward. TRC’s foundation to address such challenges is both broad and deep.
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Expertise to Address Critical Infrastructure Needs
From conceptual studies, to safety inspection and load ratings, on through design and construction, TRC has the expertise to address your most critical infrastructure needs. Projects have been progressed through traditional design-bid-build or a variety of alternative delivery methods. Led by dozens of structural engineers with a passion for bridges and related structures, our vast supportive resources in the environmental, geotechnical and construction fields offer a value-added benefit that helps proactively explore and define the regulatory impacts, constructability issues, seismic concerns and subsurface complexities that impact your project.
TRC provides the expertise to address bridge and related structural challenges at any stage of the project life cycle. From planning and permitting, to design and construction, we serve as the foundation to support your needs.
Inspections and Ratings
Our experts conduct regular in-depth bridge inspections in accordance with the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) and AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation. These inspections identify areas of distress and ensure that appropriate maintenance can be completed before impacting motorist safety or increasing overall structure life-cycle costs. Adhering to established FHWA guidelines and stringent QC/QA procedures, our inspection work is accurate and consistent. Our assignments include small and medium-sized bridges, culverts, railroad grade separations, viaducts, and major water crossings in both rural and urban environments.
Bridge Studies and Design
TRC provides ideas to build upon and serves as the foundation to support your needs from conceptual studies, to the evaluation of rehabilitation or replacement options, to the load rating of structures and anything in between. While the majority of our work follows the traditional design-bid-build process, we are very well-versed in the advantages of pursuing alternative delivery mechanisms, such as design-build and public-private partnerships, and actively participate on such projects when possible.
Leveraging the talents of seasoned professionals across a broad spectrum of disciplines, TRC confronts head-on the many regulatory, design and construction challenges you face.
Construction Services
TRC’s construction services professionals work to ensure that constructed elements achieve detailed design objectives while applying effective management and QA techniques to control schedule, cost and quality. From pre-construction through construction closeout, TRC serves as your on-site expert to manage project execution and quickly resolve obstacles to completion.
With a bench strength of several hundred construction engineers and inspectors nationwide, we can precisely match your project’s needs with qualified personnel regardless of scope, size or complexity.
Source Inspection
Reliable structural concrete and steel products are vital to constructing safe, aesthetically pleasing structures that survive the test of time. Deficiencies in fabrication are quickly exposed, resulting in lost time, wasted money and potential claims. To ensure products perform as intended, TRC offers robust in-plant quality assurance, auditing and non-destructive testing capabilities to confirm that thresholds for quality are achieved. We employ more than 100 source inspection staff globally, all of whom are equipped with the needed certifications and testing equipment to effectively carry out their role.
Environmental Services
A proven leader in solving complex environmental challenges, our ecological, cultural resources, hazardous waste, and air and noise professionals work cohesively to develop comprehensive NEPA-compliant documents that satisfy project regulatory requirements. A valued partner to our design staff, they identify potential impacts to the environment and provide recommendations to avoid, minimize and/or mitigate environmental impacts while supporting public involvement efforts.
614,387
National Bridge Inventory
9.1%
Percentage of Bridges Rated Poorly
$123B
Cost
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