Skanska dives into new job on Triborough Bridge.Skanska has been awarded a contract on the Triborough Bridge Triborough Bridge, New York City, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens. Completed in 1936, it comprises three separate sections—a bridge crossing the East River, a bridge spanning the Harlem River, and a fixed bridge across the Bronx in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The contract, amounting to $271 million, will be included in the order bookings for the third quarter. The customer is the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. The assignment is primarily for the replacement of bridge deck on approximately 1,200 meters of the Randalls Island and Wards Island Approach Viaduct viaduct (vī`ədŭkt') [Lat.,=road conveyor], type of bridge for carrying a highway or railroad over a valley, over low ground, or over a road. . Other parts of the contract include the construction of two new access ramps and a new pedestrian walkway, as well as the widening of a ramp leading to Manhattan. The contract also includes replacement of bearings, painting of the viaduct structure and the underside of the suspended span, the rehabilitation of the roadway lighting and the construction of a surface road on Wards Island. The project will be implemented by Skanska USA Civil's unit Koch Skanska. Work will commence in September 2005 and is scheduled for completion in 38 months. The Triborough Bridge is actually comprised of three bridges Coordinates: Three Bridges is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley, in the county of West Sussex in England. History , a viaduct and 23 kilometers of approach roads connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. The longest span of the Bridge is the East River suspension section to Queens, which connects with the Grand Central Parkway The Grand Central Parkway is a parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island. At the Queens-Nassau border, it becomes the Northern State Parkway, which runs across the northern part of Long Island through Nassau County and into and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway The Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) is an expressway which runs from southern Brooklyn, New York to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York. It is a portion of Interstate 278. The highway is mainly elevated in Brooklyn, with some open-cut sections. , as well as the neighborhood of Astoria. Last year Koch Skanska completed a $144 million project to replace the decks of the suspension span of the bridge and the Queens approaches. Koch Skanska is a business unit of Skanska USA Civil. Skanska USA Civil specializes in such infrastructure projects as construction of bridges, highways, power generation and public transit systems, as well as water treatment and water pollution control plants. |
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