Market Street Bridge

Category
Historic Bridges

Client
Delaware Department of Transportation

Location
New Castle, Delaware

Key Challenges & Project Details

• Corman was given 260 calendar days to rehabilitate a historic twin cantilevered span bridge built in 1922
• Bridge improvements were constructed in two major phases while maintaining two lanes of traffic
• Existing ornamental components were removed, stored, or replaced with numerous new precast replicas.
• Removed and replaced P.C. concrete deck and sidewalk, repaired concrete encasement of steel girders with shotcrete
• Repaired substructure concrete and ornamental concrete elements including the towers
• Repaired the shear lock system
• Cleaned and painted structural steel
• Pointed existing masonry
• Milled bridge approaches
• Overlaid bridge approaches with bituminous concrete
• Corman completed the project on schedule in 8 short months

Awards

• 2003 New Castle County Historic Review Board Historical Preservations Award
• 2002 Delaware Department of Transportation Outstanding Project Award