August 20, 2007
GENIVAR in Brockville Participated in this Extraordinary Event
GENIVAR's Brockville office was contracted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario to provide Contract Administration Services for the replacement of the Island Park Bridge over the Hwy 417 (Ottawa Queensway) in the City of Ottawa. The contract, valued at approximately $8,680,000,00, began in March 2007 and will end in December 2007. The bridge replacement was executed using Rapid Lift Technology. This was the first time this was done in Ontario. This Rapid Lift Operation saved about a year in construction time and resulting impact to Hwy 417 traffic. The Queensway was closed in its entirety (and detoured) from Saturday evening at 8:00 PM to Sunday morning at 11:00 AM August 11 while the bridges were being moved.
The new bridge was built in an offsite staging area and a Self Propelled Modular Transporter was used to remove the existing structure and place the new one. The removal and replacement took place over the weekend of August 10 -11. Moving was approximately 6 hours starting at 8:00 PM Saturday and ending by 2:00 AM Sunday.
This event received much media attention.
Bleachers were in place to accommodate spectators, there was a live feed on the web site
www.islandparkcamera.com.
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