US 90 St. Louis Bay Bridge

General Description

US 90 St Louis Bay Bridge, between Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, Mississippi. Harrison and Jackson Counties Mississippi.

This project consisted of twin 2.1 mile long bridge structures crossing St. Louis Bay.

A brief overview of both bridge structures finds them founded with driven piles, a sub structure of cast in place concrete footings, cast in place concrete columns, struts, pile caps, and superstructure of prestressed concrete girders, and cast in place concrete bridge deck.

D.T. Read Steel Co., Inc. was a subcontractor on the above noted project purchasing reinforcement steel utilizing a joint check agreement and placement of reinforcing steel which was incidentally exclusively performed by our own in house employees. The approximate total quantity of reinforcing steel supplied and placed by D. T. Read Steel Co on this project was 6,952 tons. D. T. Read Steel forces placed reinforcing steel on the following components on this project: Misc. drainage structures, soffit slab, decorative pylons, approach slab, seawall rebar, slope paving areas, pile caps, diaphragms, bridge decks, barrier railing, pier footings, pier caps, and columns.

The aforementioned subcontract listed tasks would pertain to the State Road 90 project as D. T. Read Steel Co., Inc. has the knowledge, and experience from projects such as this to be considered for supply and placement of reinforcing steel.

Highway Bridge and Roadway Construction

In regards to our subcontract portion of the work on the noted project D. T. Read Steel Company has been placing reinforcing steel on bridge structures, and buildings for over 45 years. The noted project was a bridge replacement as a result of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. As far as we know the site conditions are similar to the State Road 90 project. The bridge designs appear similar and reinforcing steel bent cap cages can be pre tied and set into forms when the conditions allow expediting overall production time. As you will note from the three previous projects we have herewith submitted that they were all going on simultaneously. While this would present a labor challenge for most organizations we were successfully able to adequately man all three projects simultaneously and finish on or ahead of time to meet critical project milestones.

Environmental

On the noted project full respect for the environment were paramount with our employees assigned to this project. Full respect and compliance for environmental measures, and concerns pertained to our work on land, and over water. The work associated with this particular project was also a major concern for the endangered Pallid Sturgeon. The Pallid Sturgeon was designated on the federally endangered species list in 1990. Our employees utilized portable toilets provided by the General Contractor on the bridge in our work areas. Any trash generated by our forces was placed in dumpsters whether on the land or water portions of our work area. Transportation to and from the above water work sites was provided by the General Contractor in the form of crew boats.

Cooperation

Over the 45 year existence of D.T. Read Steel Company and as so noted on this project full compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations is a prime objective. Consequently our primary core customers are federal, state and local agencies. All Environmental Protection Plans, Storm Water Prevention Plans, Etc. were the distinct responsibilities of the General Contractor which we fully abided by, and complied with.

Management

It has always been the philosophy of D. T. Read Steel Company to adequately staff this and all projects with competent, experienced supervisors, foremen, and iron workers to adequately handle the anticipated work loads and constraints of the overall project schedule. Experienced and competent employees also insures the quality of our work and favorable acceptance by the inspecting authority as to not hold up the forward progress of work by having to redo our work. 

Problems

Fortunately on this project we did not experience any major problems that were as a direct result of our workmanship, project staffing, production, or supply of critical materials. Due to the fact of open communications with the General Contractor, and other subcontractors as well as participation in weekly meetings all major problems were able to be staved off ahead of time. As is the case on most construction projects minor problems were encountered (i.e. minor weather incidents) and subsequently dealt with in an expeditious manner as not to impede the forward production on this project.

Past Performance Information Sheet

  1. D. T. Read Steel Company, Inc.
  2. Contract Number: ER/BR-0003-01 (98) 104555/301000.

  3. US 90 St. Louis Bay Bridge between the town of Bay St. Louis to Pass Christian, Mississippi Harrison and Jackson Counties.

    This project consisted of twin 2.1 mile long bridge structures crossing St. Louis Bay. A brief overview of both bridge structures finds them founded with driven piles, a sub structure of cast in place concrete footings, cast in place concrete columns, pile caps, and superstructure of prestressed concrete girders, and cast in place concrete bridge deck.

  4. On the aforementioned project we performed reinforcing steel placement which is similar in nature to Solicitation Number W912EP-08-R-0025 with the exception of the length of the bridges and duration of the project.
  5. Mississippi Transportation Commission
    Mr. Larry Lee James, P.E.
    Deputy Executive Director/Chief Engineer
    Attention: Document Control Center
    Mississippi Department of Transportation
    P. O. Box 1850
    Jackson, Mississippi 39215-1850
  6. Granite-Archer Western, a Joint Venture
    P.O. Box 50024
    Watsonville, Ca. 95077-5024
    Attention: Mr. Allan Nelson 612-363-6839
  7. D.T. Read Steel Co., Inc. was a subcontractor on the above noted project purchasing reinforcement steel utilizing a joint check agreement and placement of reinforcing steel which was incidentally exclusively performed by our own in house employees.
  8. Our subcontract price for the noted project was $11,802,757.00 dollars.
  9. On the noted project we did not employ any subcontractors and self performed our work entirely.
  10. Our subcontract work on the aforementioned project commenced on June 6, 2006 and was successfully completed on November 18, 2007.
  11. Yes (please note attached MDOT Commercially Useful Function Performance Report)
  12. There was no termination or default of our subcontract agreement on the noted project.
  13. No liquidated damages were assessed for our subcontract work on this project.