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MTE Marine Project- Newark Bay Bridge
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Newark, NJ
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Bridge
References
- Owner:
- New Jersey Department of Transportation
- Architect:
- General Contractor:
Scope Of Work
PROJECT AT A GLANCE
- Fender system replacement
- Pile reattachment
- Underwater horizontal wailer replacement
- Underwater Lightning rod installation
MTE Solutions provided work vessel, barges, and a crew boat for our dock builders and commercial divers to remove and replace the marine fender system.
The fenders were broken, damaged and missing from years of barges and storms hitting the sacrificial timber system. The fenders protect the bridge piers from marine collision structural damage.
Over the years of tides currents and severe weather the bolts failed in a portion of the connection between the battered piles and the upper wailers. The MTE Solutions dock builders removed and replaced the hardware.
After the initial site inspection the lower structural wailer had fallen off. The MTE field engineering staff devised a way to repair the existing timber structure. We replaced the timber wailers with new wood and replaced the fender system. After we were finished the fenders system was brought back to its original strength.
Ferreira Construction the GC on the project installed a lighting protection system from the top of the bridge to the bridge pier. The MTE Solutions diving team anchored the conduit to the concrete pile cap. And buried a combination of ground rods and grounding plates into the mud to disperse a direct hit of lighting to the bridge. MTE electrical engineer aided the dive crew in the best way to maintain and electrical ground path.
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