North Landing Bridge project on schedule

Posted December 9, 2009
By Pamela K Spaugy
Norfolk District Public Affairs

12/09/2009 - Repairs to the North Landing Bridge, which was built in 1951, are on schedule. The bridge repairs are expected to be completed by mid-January.

The bridge, located on the Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, Va. borders, where Mount Pleasant Road turns into North Landing Road, closed Nov. 16.Using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, is overseeing the project.

The two stimulus contracts were awarded in late August 2009, one to Luna Development, an 8-A contractor out of Norfolk, and one to U.S. Facilities, a minority owned contractor out of Philadelphia.

Luna Development work includes additional security and safety upgrades to the bridge house, upgrade bridge house windows, doors, roofing, AC, and heat (energy efficient), and installing an onsite storage building.

US Facilities work includes removal and replacement of existing bridge surface (steel grid and concrete fill), some structural steel work, paint structural steel and bridge, repair some underwater support pilings, repair concrete abutments, and replace traffic control gates, lights, and poles.

As of Dec. 9, all existing bridge surface has been removed and new steel grid arrived on schedule. Installation of the new steel grid will start this week. Painting started on Sunday, Dec. 6 with minor delays due to weather. New traffic gates and lights have arrived and are also being installed. Underwater sub-structure work is progressing and bridge house repairs will be completed by early January. Neither effect reopening of the bridge.

The project is currently 15% complete with the majority of work scheduled to take place in the next 3 weeks.

For more information, call Joel Scussel, Operations Branch, Norfolk District, Army Corps of Engineers, at (757) 201-7642 or (757) 201-7642. Media POC is Pam Spaugy, 201-7059 or 646-7472.