The Route 36 Highlands Bridge connects Sea Bright and Atlantic Highlands over the Shrewsbury River in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The new bridge will replace the existing Route 36 Highlands bridge, which was built in 1932 and has reached the end of its service life. The existing Route 36 Highlands Bridge, with a 35-foot vertical clearance, has been rated the worst movable bridge in New Jersey. The two new fixed span precast segmental concrete box structures will provide a 65-foot vertical clearance over the Shrewsbury River channel and will carry two 12-foot lanes of traffic in each direction, with a median barrier.

Our Role

McNary Bergeron & Associates is providing construction engineering services including:
- Design of precast cofferdams and support system for footing construction
- Integrated shop drawings for precast column and superstructure segments
- Construction analysis
- Step-by-step erection procedures for substructure and superstructure
- Development and design of falsework, cantilever stability system, lifting assemblies and rigging, and misc temporary works
- Geometry control system, including casting software for column and superstructure segments.

Construction Method and Specifications

- Precast concrete cofferdams are floated into place above driven piles, then filled with concrete for bridge footings
- Precast hollow segmental box pier columns and caps
- Precast concrete segmental variable depth box girder superstructures
- Built using the balanced cantilever method with ground-based and barge-based cranes
- Segments are constructed using the shortline precasting method
- Four separate segmental superstructures with typical span lengths of 180' to 235'
- Deck widths ranging from 26' to 46'

Owner

New Jersey Department of Transportation

Contractor

J.H. Reid General Contractor

Designer

Jacobs Civil, Inc.

Precaster

Unistress Corporation

Total Contract Value

$124 million

Timeline

June 2008 to May 2011

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