Project Highlights

Brightman Street Bridge
Fall River, Massachusetts

The work under this Contract consisted of the construction of piers, abutments and pier protection structures for the Brightman Street Bridge Replacement (Relocated US Rte. 6) in the City of Fall River and the Town of Somerset.

The work was comprised of construction of reinforced concrete piers and abutments, installing turbidity screens, steel sheeting, and pier protection structures, structural and cofferdam excavation, embankment, transporting, stockpiling and dewatering of excavated material, construction of drilled shafts, rock-socketing of drilled shafts, dredging, rehandling and stockpiling of dewatered material, axial and dynamic load test, instrumentation, navigation lights, mechanically stabilized earth wall, steel piles, fender bumpers, erosion, siltation, dust and rodent control, constructing, maintaining and removal of a dewatering area, utility work, maintenance and protection of traffic and other incidental items of work. More specifically, work consisted of: reinforcing concrete abutments and piers on land and water, steel sheeting for 11 cellular cofferdams, steel H-piles, 14 temporary deepwater cofferdams, cofferdam and structural excavation, transport, stockpile and deepwater excavated material, 36” diameter pipe piles, and mechanically stabilizing earth walls.