ABSTRACT ONLY:
The completion of a modern cable-stayed bridge across a major navigation channel in Charleston, South Carolina, was followed by the dismantling of two older, through truss structures. The deconstruction of Charleston’s Grace Memorial and Silas N. Pearman bridges relied on both conventional methods and specialized techniques, and how the challenges ranged from time restrictions to the ever-changing structural condition of the bridges as key elements were removed.
BIOS:
By Charles Spaulding, P.E., M.ASCE, a regional manager of Austress-Menard Pty. Ltd., the Australian division of Menard Soltraitement, a soil improvement design and construction firm based in Nozay, France; Frederic Masse, M.ASCE, the vice president of engineering for DGI-Menard, Inc., the division of the firm that covers the eastern United States; and Justin LaBrozzi, M.ASCE, a project engineer for DGI-Menard, Inc.