Municipal

Marr Assists in Braga Bridge Restoration

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Braga Bridge under construction

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Marr Scaffolding on the Braga Bridge

Fall River, MA – Since August 2014, Marr Scaffolding has been working with Barletta/O&G and Aetna Bridge on the Route 79/Braga Bridge Improvements Project, which is one of the five largest projects of Governor Patrick’s Administration’s Accelerated Bridge Program. This program entails a $3 billion effort to reduce the number of structurally deficient bridges in Massachusetts.

In an effort to improve the structural integrity of the bridge, Marr Scaffolding has provided staging and scaffold towers to help expand the existing Pier Cap. Throughout the fall, the scaffold crew concentrated its efforts on Pier 25, where they’ve had to transform staging into multiple configurations to accommodate the project’s more challenging features, which involve tight spaces, heavy wind loads, as well as unique tie-off applications and extensive engineering.

Most recently, the crew has erected sectional scaffold stair towers on the westbound side of Route 195 for girder beam strengthening. Due to space restrictions on the active roadway, the towers were erected atop jersey barriers. In the new year, these towers will be dismantled and re-erected correspondingly on the eastbound side of Route 195.

Beginning in January, Marr will erect four suspended systems scaffold work platforms for girder beam restoration on the underside of the bridge. And in the spring/summer of 2015, the scaffold crew will begin restoration work on Pier 15, located over the Taunton River.