December 6, 2016 - 5:15pm to 7:30pm

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Design and Construction Aspects of the Main Span, Cable Stayed Portion of the New NY Bridge

This presentation will discuss some of the design aspects for the main span portion of the New NY Bridge project that will replace the existing Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River. This will include the Tower/Pylon configuration, the superstructure layout, the connection of the lower stay anchors to the edge girders, approach pier permanent tie-downs, the implementation of the redundancy truss and the 100-year service life design of the structure.  The presentation will then review the contractor’s level of success in implementing these design aspects into the construction of the project. 

Please register by Friday, December 2 to guarantee your place. Registrations made after that time will be accommodated if possible, but we cannot guarantee a place. 

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About the Presenter: Gowen E. Dishman, PE

During Mr. Dishman’s thirty-five-year engineering career, he has been involved in the design, construction, and the quality control/quality assurance of some of America’s most premiere and innovative bridge projects, starting with the one of the first modern segmental bridges built in the U.S. (Long Key Bridge in the Florida Keys) to Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay (pictured left) and the US 82 Mississippi River Bridge over the Lower Mississippi. His experience also includes light rail projects such as MARTA in Atlanta, Georgia and Tren Urbano in Puerto Rico and bascule bridge projects in Florida and Massachusetts.

Mr. Dishman has performed constructability and bid-ability reviews on many major bridge projects, including the US 82 Mississippi River Bridge in Greenville, Mississippi (pictured right); the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Washington, D.C.; and the I-70, New River Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri. He serves on the American Segmental Bridge Institute’s Construction Practices Committee for Segmental Bridges.  This committee has just completed the 3rd edition of the “Handbook for the Construction of Segmental Bridges.”

Mr. Dishman is currently serving as the Main Span Component Lead for the New NY Bridge, which will replace the existing Tappan Zee Bridge.  He is a 1979 graduate of Tennessee Technological University and he has served as an HNTB Fellow since 2011.

 

Location:

Cliff Dwellers Club

200 S. Michigan Ave, 22nd Floor

Chicago, IL

 

Cancellation Policy:

If you make a reservation and cannot attend, please cancel by Friday, December 2.  If you do not cancel by that time, please send a colleague, as you will be charged.

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Participants

Derek Boeldt ( Chicago Transit Authority )
William Walton ( GEI Consultants, Inc. )
Orwin Youngquist ( TERRA Engineering, Ltd. )
Jonathan Tavarez ( Amec Foster Wheeler )
David Horos ( Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP )
Carol Drucker ( Drucker Zajdel Structural Engineers, Inc. )
Roger Winkelmann ( STV )
Michael Zelisko ( Primera Engineers )
Deborah Zroka ( Milhouse Engineering & Construction, Inc. )
Howard Tenner ( Milhouse Engineering & Construction, Inc. )
Vincent Scarpa ( Milhouse Engineering & Construction Inc. )
Eduardo Prieto ( Rubinos and Mesia Engineers )
Mathew Ingram ( Jacobs )
Parker Thomson ( Michael Baker International )
Ahmad Hammad ( Parsons Brinckerhoff )
Arthur Hall ( Sargent & Lundy LLC )
Justin Pattison ( STV Incorporated )
Mary Lou Kutska ( HNTB Corporation )
Meghana Kotha ( H.W. Lochner, Inc. )
David Nickell ( TGRWA, LLC )
Daniel Roig ( Roig Associates )
David Liu ( Transystems, Inc. )
Rami Asfahani ( Ciorba Group )
Salvatore DiBernardo ( Ciorba Group )
Joseph Lowrance ( Farnsworth Group )
Mark Converse ( Alfred Benesch & Company )
Dipak Shah ( Rubinos & Mesia Engineers, Inc. )
Mohsen Farahany ( Rubinos & Mesia Engineers, Inc. )
Nihar Shah ( Rubinos & Mesia Engineers, Inc. )
Dan Schriks ( Alfred Benesch )
Tina Revzin ( TranSystems )
David Bibbs ( CannonDesign )
Bryan Frey ( CannonDesign )
Stephaine Hautzinger ( CannonDesign )
Steve Elver ( GEI Consultants, Inc. )
Jessy Rojas ( EFK Moen, LLC )
Robert B. Johnson
Kevin Conroy ( Simpson Gumpertz & Heger )
William Colletti ( TranSystems )
IL Brazzale ( Lochner )
Chase Slavin ( Simpson Gumpertz & Heger )
Lawrence Kirchner ( TranSystems )
Christine Freisinger ( Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (Chicago) )
Adam Urbanek ( exp Federal, Inc. )
Brian Umbright ( exp US Services, Inc. )
James Bibby ( Rempe-Sharpe & Assoc. )
George Krupa
Enji Papazisi ( HNTB Corporation )
Al Spada ( NCSEA )
Patrick McCarthy
Christopher Knipp ( Michael Baker International )