January 2020 
Calendar of Events
January 16th, 2020: Luncheon with Jeffrey Hunter, PE presenting on the Milton-Madison Bridge.
February 7th, 2020: SEAI Winter Party, details to come.
Please join us January 16th, 2020, for the first luncheon of the year!
Date: January 16, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Cottonwood Grille
Register for Tickets: HERE
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Presentation: The Milton-Madison Bridge made history when its new steel truss superstructure was moved 55 feet onto its permanent, rehabilitated piers. The 2,428-foot-long main truss span was slid along steel rails and plates into place, making it the longest bridge slide in North America. The bridge, which connects Milton, Kentucky and Madison, Indiana, opened to traffic one week later after final inspections were completed.
The bridge is owned by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) and is one of only two crossings over the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky, which are 100 miles apart. A requirement of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding used to build the project was that the bridge needed to be replaced on its current alignment. The project was implemented as a design-build with provision for a contractor-supplied ferry service to maintain traffic during the bridge replacement. The ferry service, free to users, was to accommodate 240 vehicles per hour during daylight hours for one year. During the bidding process, the successful design-build team proposed an idea to eliminate the ferry service and instead build the new superstructure next to the existing bridge on temporary piers and slide it laterally into place onto refurbished existing piers. This allowed traffic to be maintained on the existing bridge, except for two brief closures. The 2,428-foot-long truss was pulled laterally via sliding harnesses and utilizing its permanent bearings. A 110-foot-long prestressed concrete girder approach span was also pulled laterally using temporary sliding bearings. This innovative approach generated a winning bid of $103.7 million, well below the engineer’s estimate of $122 million.
This presentation will provide an overview of the project, a description of the concepts used to maintain traffic, and the processes used for the bridge slide. While the approach span slide was on a much smaller scale than the main span slide, the unique set of challenges encountered will also be discussed.
Bio: Jeff is a bridge engineer and project manager at Burgess and Niple, Inc. with 12 years of experience. He is experienced in the design, analysis, load rating and inspection of steel, concrete and timber bridges. His experience includes work across the country including the states of Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, Arizona, Oklahoma, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University.
