{"id":7193,"date":"2016-09-28T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:10:14","slug":"230-million-kiewit-led-hwy-53-bridge-relocation-project-reaches-halfway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/230-million-kiewit-led-hwy-53-bridge-relocation-project-reaches-halfway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch video of the $230 million Kiewit project reach a milestone, the setting of 375t bridge girders with a 1375-ton crawler crane in MN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VIRGINIA, MN<\/strong>\u2014 The Highway 53 bridge and relocation project<\/a> hit a milestone Sept. 23 when it reached the halfway point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The $230 million project that began last November, with the bridge and roadway scheduled to open to traffic in November of next year, is now 50 percent complete, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And some other big \u2014 seriously big \u2014 things have been happening with the project this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0The first of the bridge\u2019s massive steel girders that will support the roadway and pedestrian walkway was placed Sept. 13. \u00a0The project\u2019s 80 girders, fabricated by a company in Eau Claire, Wis., are up to 16 feet tall and 120 feet long. They will account for 10 million pounds of the American-made steel used in the bridge that will span the Rouchleau Pit.<\/div>\n
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It takes massive equipment to install girders on what will be Minnesota\u2019s tallest bridge \u2014 rising 200 feet above water level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And the project, overseen by general contractor Kiewit Infrastructure Co.<\/a>, has brought in the right crane to tackle the job \u2014 the Sarens<\/a> owned heavy-lift crawler crane, known as the 1375-ton (US) capacity Terex CC 6800<\/a>.<\/p>\n