Projects
This project involved the construction of 2 new steel girder bridges and concrete roadways adjacent to existing bridges. The challenge of providing the necessary equipment to this landlocked lake was accomplished by trucking to the site over 125 pontoon sections owned by Massman for assembly into crane barges and material barge.
Difficult FoundationsMassman Construction Co. led a joint venture on this large project for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission. This project was the cable-stayed main span for the New Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis. The bridge carries two lanes of Interstate 70 traffic each way between downtown St. Louis and the Metro-East.
Difficult FoundationsAs one of the most heavily-trafficked locks along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the Calcasieu Lock required repairs to its deteriorated south guidewall.
Water InfrastructureHeavy rains and a rapid rise on the Grand River led to an accumulation of drift pushing against Norfolk Southern’s rail bridge. After significant deflection from surging debris, rails were cut on either approach to salvage track leading into the river spans. Moments later, 270 feet of bridge was washed downstream, bringing rail traffic in and out of Kansas City to a screeching halt.
RailroadMassman Construction Co. was awarded a contract from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to replace and subsequently remove the existing Slingo Bridge across the Caney Fork River arm of Center Hill Lake in Central Tennessee.
Difficult FoundationsAs part of two contracts awarded through Best Value procurements, Massman partnered with USACE to construct major enhancements to two lock and dam complexes on the Upper Mississippi River.
Water InfrastructureThe original Champ Clark Bridge on US 54 over the Mississippi River was built in 1928. Construction for the new bridge included four river piers, each founded on 11-foot 6-inch-diameter drilled shafts, with three land piers that incorporate 48-inch-diameter pipe pile foundations and columns. The five river spans utilize steel plate girders, and the approaches utilized precast concrete girders. We doubled the current bridge’s width with 12-foot lanes and 10-foot shoulders to address issues with oversized loads and to provide a safer river crossing.
BridgesThis additional shiploader project entails upgrading Cargill's Westwego facility to loadout product on super-Panamax carriers. To accomplish this, Massman removed an old shiploader, conveyor gallery, and shiploader tower. As an added upgrade to the facility, all new conveyors and chutes were installed in the main loader tower.
To transport grain from the main loader tower to the new shiploader, a conveyor gallery foundation and tower were installed. Lastly, a mooring pile was added to assist ships in docking while being loaded.
Docks & TerminalsThe Pin Oak Marine Terminal petroleum liquids storage terminal project is a project along the east bank of the Mississippi River in Mt. Airy, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The project includes storage of 10 million barrels of crude oil, refined products, and chemicals on a 431-acre site for receiving and shipping of petroleum liquids and chemicals by rail, pipeline, barge, ship, and truck to and from both domestic and export markets.
Energy & UtilitiesThe Columbia Lock and Dam is owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District. In the face of an “exponentially increasing risk of failure” of the lock structure due to foundational undermining, the District declared an Official Dam Safety Emergency and suspended navigation through the lock in July 2018. We partnered with USACE to perform emergency repairs to the structure and restore the Ouachita River’s navigability, including the development of an alternative construction approach to address voids that were significantly larger than anticipated.
Water InfrastructureThe Belle Chasse Bridge & Tunnel Replacement Project received the Notice to Proceed from the Louisiana DOTD on December 20, 2019, and is currently in the design phase. This project is Massman’s second Public-Private Partnership (P3) in which we are the design-build contractor of choice. The developer, Plenary Infrastructure Belle Chasse, chose the Joint Venture of Traylor Bros., Inc. and Massman Construction Co. as their design-build contractor along with Huval & Associates, Inc. as the JV’s designer.
BridgesAfter a tow carrying a few rock barges collided with a pier on Union Pacific Railroad’s (UPRR) bridge 610.49 along the Atchafalaya River, the rail bridge was shut down and an emergency design and construction team (Modjeski & Masters and Massman Construction Co.) was called in to perform emergency repairs.
RailroadMassman Construction Co. was awarded an emergency work contract to build 210 feet of new bridge for BNSF Railways across a flooded cornfield near Fortescue, Missouri. This was part of BNSF’s plan to help relieve water pressure along their tracks from the swollen Missouri River and allow for the reopening of this heavily traveled rail line.
RailroadMassman constructed the $100MM replacement bridge for the existing Broadway Bridge, carrying US Highway 70, in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. The new bridge is a double basket network tied arch, constructed on the same alignment as the existing bridge, supported by three bents over the Arkansas River.
BridgesThis project was to construct a new intake structure for St. Louis County Water Company's, Central Plant No. 3, in St. Louis County, Missouri. The project included piledriving, concrete forming, underwater excavation and placement of riprap.
This water intake structure was initially constructed inside a temporary cofferdam until the top lift of wall pours and concrete cap rose above the sheetpile. Massman Construction Co. installed two 54 inch water pipes.
Energy & UtilitiesMassman completed the construction of the Nucor Steel Louisiana LLC ship unloading/barge loading dock facility on the Mississippi River near Convent, Lousiana. The facility offloads ocean going ships loaded with iron ore. The iron ore is transferred to a processing plant on land by a conveyor system. After processing the ore, the reduced iron is returned to the dock facility for loading onto barges for shipment to other steel mills which produce steel plate and shapes.
Docks & TerminalsThe IHNC Floodwall joint venture project is a 1.5 mile floodwall across the northern end of Lake Borgne, where the Inner Harbor Navigation Channel enters the harbor just east of New Orleans. This project is an essential component of the extensive New Orleans hurricane flood protection program that was implemented by the Corps of Engineers.
Water InfrastructureThis project for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is part of a 40-year, $1.5 billion design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract. The joint venture will design and build the project and turn it over to the developers in early 2018 for them to operate and maintain the structures for the remaining 40 year term. The existing bridge, which was built in 1928, was the Port Authority’s first bi-state project and is named after Major General George Goethals; a builder of the Panama Canal and first consulting engineer for the Port.
BridgesThe scope of work on the Zen Noh Grain Corp project includes repair of the barge slip, which involves driving pile that will go between the existing damaged plumb and batter piles. This phase of the job will continue through the end of 2020.
The project team was challenged to come up with innovative ways to complete the work, including driving pile beneath the structure from the outside in order to keep the slip open to minimize the financial impact on production.
Docks & TerminalsThis project for Ameren Corporation consists of sheet pile construction, mooring tripods and an access bridge for a coal unloading facility for Ameren’s Rush Island Power Plant.
Energy & UtilitiesThis project for the Corps of Engineers was to construct the main dam, spillway, power plant substructure & intake for the Clarence Cannon Reservoir near Monroe City, Missouri.
The dam is named after Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Energy & UtilitiesThe Pin Oak Marine Terminal petroleum liquids storage terminal project is a project along the east bank of the Mississippi River in Mt. Airy, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The project includes storage of 10 million barrels of crude oil, refined products, and chemicals on a 431-acre site for receiving and shipping of petroleum liquids and chemicals by rail, pipeline, barge, ship, and truck to and from both domestic and export markets.
Docks & TerminalsA Massman-led joint venture constructed this award-winning $230MM cable-stayed bridge across the Mississippi river in St. Louis, Missouri. This project was completed for Missouri Department of Transportation on budget and schedule. The cable-stayed portion of the project consists of a 1,500 foot long main span (the third longest in the US) with two 636-foot long end spans. Each of the two main (river) piers are founded on six 11-foot, 6-inch diameter drilled shafts with 11-foot diameter rock sockets.
BridgesMassman performed this project for the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District. The project involved the construction and installation of a reinforced sheet pile floodwall which ties into the existing levee system, underwater support structure and a cut-off wall. Massman built the flood control structure across a navigable waterway leaving a 110-foot opening for the local shrimp boats and other marine traffic to pass.
Water InfrastructureThis project for Little Rock Port Authority (LRPA) includes a new dock and rail system to convey product to and from Slackwater Harbor via barge and rail. Construction includes 2,200 feet of railroad track, two turnouts, 3,500 cubic yards of excavation, 21,500 cubic yards of embankment construction, and 8,500 tons of aggregate base course for new road construction. The new dock includes eight open cells composed of sheet pile.
Docks & TerminalsThe kcICON Project reconstructed and rehabilitated 4.7 miles of the Interstate 29/35 corridor just north of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This project added capacity to a busy corridor in order to better serve its 100,000+ daily users. A key feature of the project was the state-of-the-art Christopher S. Bond Bridge over the Missouri River, that replaced the existing suspension bridge. The Missouri Department of Transportation awarded this design–build contract to the Paseo Corridor Constructors joint venture as a result of a Best Value RFP.
BridgesThe Corps of Engineers awarded Massman Construction Co. a contract to perform repairs to the Marseilles Dam in Marseilles, Illinois. The dam was damaged from several runaway barges that collided with the dam as a result of strong river currents from heavy rainfall. Massman completely replaced three tainter gates and repaired two others.
Water InfrastructureThis project for the Illinois Power Company was to remove and replace riprap, construct sheet pile cells and install captive barge with barge guides, handrails and bumpers.
Energy & UtilitiesThe Corps of Engineers, as part of the overall extensive New Orleans hurricane flood protection program, raised the levees on the west side of the MRGO channel and Lake Borgne in St. Bernard Parish. The existing levee from Bayou Bienvenue to Cavernarnon is approximately 15 miles long, and was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The LPV 145 Project is the northernmost segment of the T-wall project, approximately 30,300 feet long. The pile supported concrete T-wall will extend the levee protection up to Elevation (+) 30 feet MSL from an existing levee embankment of (+) 18 feet MSL.
Water InfrastructureFor this project, we replaced the existing ship loader within Tower 1 with a new Buhler ship loader at Cargill's Westwego, Louisiana, terminal facility. Our scope of work required removal of the existing ship loader and associated components, structural demolitions, structural modifications to Tower 1 to accept the new unit, installation of a new transfer conveyor, and installation of the new ship loader with associated components.
Docks & TerminalsThe Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's Huey P. Long U.S. 90 Bridge over the Mississippi River is a key infrastructure component of the New Orleans and Louisiana economies, with 50,000 vehicles daily, along with passenger and freight train usage. Completed in 1935, the steel truss bridge supports 2 railroad tracks, and 4 narrow 9-foot wide traffic lanes.
Bridges, RailroadAs part of a joint venture, Massman constructed a new bascule span bridge over the Duwamish Waterway parallel to, and downriver of, the existing bridge, which had been prematurely closed due to its poor condition. Funded in part by a USDOT TIGER grant, the new structure reconnected South Park’s main business district with the rest of Seattle.
BridgesRaven Energy’s dock project extended their existing ship loading and unloading facility 1500 feet upstream and effectively doubled their material handling capacity by allowing two ships to berth simultaneously. The expanded structure that supported additional conveyors and ship loaders for the transfer of coal near Mile 160 on the Lower Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Docks & TerminalsMassman constructed this replacement for the Sligo bridge over the Caney Fork River arm of Centerville Lake for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The new bridge is a 1,545-foot continuous span, 8.5-foot deep plate girder bridge with five equal spans supported by two abutments; three piers in the water and one pier on land. The waterborne piers are supported by three 11.5-foot diameter drilled shafts with 11-foot diameter rock sockets.
BridgesMassman built this project to replace and enlarge the aging regional mooring facility for the US Army Corps of Engineers Service Base in downtown St. Louis. The existing timber pile mooring clusters were decomposing and had become unsuitable for securing barges. In addition, decades of fluctuating river elevations had deposited drifted debris for hundreds of yards along the river bank so the existing 1,100 feet of riverfront area was no longer sufficient to store all of the equipment used by the Corps.
Docks & TerminalsWe replaced the miter gates for the USACE at Lock 27 near Granite City, Illinois. To replace the miter gates in the main lock chamber, lock bulkheads had to be installed before the chamber could be dewatered. A total of 11 bulkheads were installed by floating plant on the upstream end of the lock, and nine bulkheads on the downstream end. Culvert valve bulkheads and stub recess bulkheads were also set. Dewatering of the chamber consisted of using a number of 10-inch submersible pumps.
Water InfrastructureThis record setting project for the Mississippi Department of Transportation involved the construction of a new bridge across a challenging stretch of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi. The project was to replace Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge also built by Massman Construction Co. in 1940.
Bridges, Difficult FoundationsThis joint venture project for the Corps of Engineers involved replacement of existing 300-foot and 600-foot locks with a new 1,200-foot lock on the Ohio River as well as replacement of existing swing and bascule bridges with a high clearance fixed span highway bridge. Construction also included installation of the culvert valves, upstream and downstream miter gates, installation of updated PLC controls for the lock operating systems, demolition of the existing cofferdam, and construction of the Upstream and Downstream Approach Walls.
Water InfrastructureThis project for Holcim (US), Inc., was just south of St. Louis, Missouri and consisted of the installation of sixteen driven sheet pile cells and a driven Z-pile material bulkhead. The cells and bulkhead are part of the harbor portion of a new one billion dollar cement plant constructed adjacent to the Mississippi River. The cells and bulkhead will be used for the transloading of produced cement onto barges for domestic and international shipment.
Docks & TerminalsThis unique project for the US Army Corps of Engineers featured construction of four floating approach walls for the Olmsted Dam on the Ohio River. The walls are concrete pontoons up to 350 feet long that were built in a dry graving yard 50 miles upstream from the project and towed to the job. At the jobsite, the walls are anchored in place with a guide system that is founded on 10-foot-diameter drilled shafts.
Water InfrastructureMassman Construction provided supply and installation of the the culvert valve for the Corps of Engineers at Lock & Dam 25 near Winfield, Missouri.
The concrete curb at the top of the four culvert valve pits (top of the lockwell) were removed. New concrete with embedded edge angles was poured back to provide recessed curbs for installation of the precast concrete pit covers.
Water InfrastructureThe LADOTD TIMED program selected a Massman Construction Co. joint venture to construct the $434 million project to replace the east and west approach structures and construct three traffic lanes on both sides of the existing Huey P. Long Bridge, also known as route 90, over the Mississippi River. Construction of foundations and bridge piers near the Mississippi River levees requires a highly coordinated effort with USACE and local area levee districts.
Bridges, RailroadThe US 90 Huey P. Long Bridge is one of 3 vital Mississippi River crossings in the New Orleans area. The combination railroad and highway bridge, 2400 feet main span, was completed in 1935, and carries two lanes of traffic each direction. The state of Louisiana, under the TIMED program, determined the optimum method to increase highway capacity was to replace the existing lanes and widen the bridge to 3 lanes each way. This unique substructure work included widening the 5 main span piers.
BridgesThis award winning design-build project for the Mississippi Department of Transportation consisted of removing and replacing the U.S. Highway 90 Bridge across Biloxi Bay, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The project included the design and construction of a 1.6-mile-long divided bridge, providing 6 lanes of traffic across the bay on a nearly parallel alignment to the old bridge. Work included the demolition and removal of the existing bridge and roadway debris.
BridgesThis Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development project consists of a 5,400-foot post-tensioned, precast concrete girder bridge with more than a mile of roadway approaches. The bridge is a high rise structure with 63 bents. The cast-in-place concrete deck rises more than 70 feet above the water at the center of the pass. Thirty-four bents are constructed on land and 29 bents on the water.
BridgesMassman performed work on the downstream protection cell at Lock 27. This project included setting armor plate around the cell.
The project included pile driving, grout placement, placement of protection stone, cell fill installation, hoisting and welding.
Water InfrastructureMassman Construction was asked by the Corps of Engineers to correct a problem that had resulted in significant scour occurring on the upstream side of Lock and Dam 25. At five of the piers, steel forms were pre-assembled on barges and then lowered into position, where they were attached under the pier footings by divers. Average water depth at time of the installations was thirty-seven feet with zero visibility. Divers used mechanical wedge anchors, pneumatic equipment and hydraulic equipment to attach the forms to the existing concrete.
Water InfrastructureThe twin, 13,000-foot-long bridges of Interstate 10 across Escambia Bay, just east of Pensacola, Florida, were severely damaged by Hurricane Ivan. This design-build emergency repair project was accomplished in two phases:
BridgesThis joint venture project for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development the was for the critical 1.1-mile long, high rise portion of the twin Interstate 10 bridges over Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. This project involved construction of two 5,780-foot long parallel bridges carrying traffic over Lake Pontchartrain adjacent to the existing bridge. The 36-inch precast pile and long span girders required several 300-ton capacity crane barges.
BridgesMassman provided seismic retrofitting of the existing I-40, six-lane bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.
The essence of this project was to enlarge the footings and caps of the river piers and to install new 11' diameter bearings under the structural steel without closing the bridge to traffic. A significant amount of heavy lift work was required to devise custom hoisting mechanisms and schemes to enlarge the pier caps and replace the bridge bearings at the top of each pier, and to drive pile and install cofferdams at the bottom of the piers.
BridgesMassman conducted a test pile program for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the objective of which was to acquire pile capacity information and geotechnical data to aid in the final design of the new Kentucky Lake Bridge near Aurora, Kentucky. The project included the installation of six steel pipe test piles, performing a series of dynamic tests while driving each, performing multiple re-strikes to determine different setup capacity increases, and several static tests.
BridgesMassman Construction Co. was awarded a contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers for a major rehabilitation of Lock and Dam 24 on the Mississippi River.
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