Park Road Bridge
Iowa City, Iowa
Project Description
The 250' thru-arch-bridge is part of the larger Iowa City Gateway Project. The Gateway project raises the existing road 10 ft' along Dubuque Street and includes the new Park Road Bridge. Dubuque Street carries 25,000 vehicles a day from the interstate to the downtown business district and the University of Iowa Campus and the Park Road Bridge serves as a critical link. The previous road and bridge due to their low elevations have seen extreme flooding and been overtopped multiple times in the past 25 years; three times in the past 10 years. The new Bridge is 1 ft above the 200-year flood level.
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Our Role
Working with construction engineer, McNary Bergeron & Associates, Hatcher Technical performed a constructability review of the intersection of the arch, the deck edge beam, and a deck cross beam. As part of this constructability review, Hatcher Technical produced simple 3D models to analyse.
Location
Park Road Bridge over the Iowa River
Iowa City, Iowa
Owner
Iowa Department of Transportation
Contractor
Kraemer
Designer
HNTB
Construction Engineer
McNary Bergeron & Associates
Total Contract Value
$42 Million (Project)
Timeline
2016 - 2018
Construction Method
250 ft concrete thru arch bridge
