Shortening the Long Road for West Virginia Bridge Replacements

Historically, building roads across the Mountain State has proven an arduous task. So when the West Virginia Parkways Authority undertook an ambitious 30-year deck replacement program on the West Virginia Turnpike, it looked for alternative methods to ease the pain. WVPA plans to use accelerated bridge construction (ABC) to replace decks on nearly all of the 116 bridges along the 88-mile turnpike that have been identified for replacement. Using ABC, concrete panel decks are prefabricated off site and then installed within a highly compressed schedule, saving months of onsite construction time when compared with conventional methods.