Fall of 2017 Westbrook lead the construction administration for a 4.6 mile asphalt mill and overlay project on STH 23 north of Dodgeville, WI. Westbrook was on-site daily providing construction oversight and project managerial duties. The existing asphalt surface was milled two inches and overlaid with another two inches of hot mix asphalt.

Additionally, several beam guard terminals and existing signage was updated.

 

To Our Wonderful Clients: As we helped you reach your goals in the past year, we too, traversed several milestones. This New Year let us raise a toast to those wonderful journeys and be confident there are many more to come.

To Our Awesome Employees: Every success requires an effort and a year of hard work proved it once again. Our united staff was able to overcome many professional challenges and developed into a very beautiful and effective mechanism.

Thank You and Happy New Year!!! 

All of the steel girders have successfully been erected in Spring Valley, IL on IL 89 over the Illinois River. Pictured is one of the gate beam picks,
which tied the final unit together. The gate beams were nine-foot tall girders measuring 230 feet in length. They were lifted into place with a 300-ton crane floating on a barge.

Westbrook involvement with the girder erection included the design of the girder erection procedure and development of the associated plans: design of the 120-foot pick beam, design of the temporary bents both on land and in the waterway, and the crane on barge stability analyses for the 300-ton crane and accessory barges.

 

Westbrook has once again been selected to provide laboratory testing and management for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation materials laboratories in Madison & La Crosse.  Westbrook has been providing WisDOT and other clients superior service since its inception in 1974.  This multi-year contract continues the relationship that began in 2012 with Westbrook being selected for multiple renewals due to our staff’s expertise in construction materials as well as the excellent service provided to our clients.

Congratulations to Nancy and her team!

Built in 1930, the Coplay-Northampton Bridge connects Coplay in Lehigh County at Chestnut and North Front streets over the Lehigh River and railroad tracks to East Ninth and Main streets in Northampton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. As part of a three-year project, this bridge has been demolished as the concrete had started to degrade and the bridge was no longer able to support the weight it was intended to.

WAE designed the deck removal of the arch bridge structure. For the blasting of the arch ribbon, we designed the maximum of steel reinforcement that could be cut prior to blasting the arch. We also checked the stability of the remaining piers after the blast.

Check out this YouTube video showing the controlled demolition on October 11, 2017. https://goo.gl/kCFCuh