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Calling an audible: demolishing Oregon's Willamette River Bridge
One of the less glamorous aspects of a heavy highway construction project is the constant checking and rechecking for quality assurances and quality controls. On the Oregon Department of Transportation’s largest bridge replacement to date, the $187 million Interstate 5 Willamette River Bridge project, such continual comparison of as-built specifications with actual measurements and capacities paid off, big time.

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A day in the life of a connected civil engineering project manager
Digital technologies are changing the shape of everyday tasks required to manage projects, capture decisions, modify plans, and share information with larger project teams. The following account of a typical civil engineering project manager’s work day highlights how a new breed of software applications is saving time, reducing the risk of errors, and improving responsiveness to clients.
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Fast Facts: The Willamette River Bridge
What do the Empire State Building, a typical Costco store, Brayshaw black cottonwoods, and 14 adult blue whales have in common? Find out here, in this special section provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation.

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Taking control on Alabama highways
In Chilton County, Ala., about 30 miles south of Birmingham, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) was tasked with updating the north- and southbound highway rights-of-way along an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 65, a main artery that dissects the state and is heavily traveled. Several vehicle run-off areas were identified as being in need of widening. The project scope included clearing existing terrain and revegetating the rights-of-way to meet the FHWA safety requirements.
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First and 10: ODOT tackles $147 million Willamette River Bridge
The golden shovels flashed in the Oregon summer sun on Aug. 11, 2009. Transportation advocates U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio helped Oregon Department of Transportation Director Matt Garrett and those of us on the project team break ground to begin construction on the Interstate 5 Willamette River Bridge at Eugene and Springfield. With the groundbreaking, the goal line is finally in sight, though we still have many yards to go: The bridge’s anticipated completion date at the end of 2012 is now closer than the beginning of our journey to the kickoff ceremony...
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