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Midwest Bridge Working Group
Meetings
Winter 2002
Agenda
Thursday, December 5, 2002
The Midwest
Bridge Working Group Winter
2002 meeting was held on Thursday December 5, 2002 at the
Hilton
Garden Inn at 1818 Maple Avenue in Evanston, IL. There
was also a field trip to the Chicago Skyway reconstruction
project on the morning of December 6.
The morning portion
of the Working Group meeting focused on forthcoming initiatives
of the Federal Highway Administration
impacting bridge maintenance and inspection. Mr. Ray McCormick
of the FHWA Office of Bridge Technology gave a presentation
on this subject. Mr. John Coleman of the Virginia DOT presented
on a state highway agency's perspectives on forthcoming
changes to the NBIS. Rick Smith of MIDOT moderated an open
discussion
following those presentations.
In the afternoon portion
of the meeting, Mr. Mike Hallien of the Indiana DOT gave
a presentation on short-span bridges,
and was followed by an overview on inspecting those bridges
by Mr. Mike Garlich of Collins Engineering. A speaker from
the Chicago DOT discussed the relocation of a section of
the elevated rail line on the Wacker Drive project that
the working group visited in December 2001. Ted Hopwood finished
the meeting with a presentation about a recent Kentucky
Transportation
Center technical exchange visit to Russia sponsored by
the FHWA and their inspection of bridges in the Russian state
of Perm.
9:30 AM Introductions - Donn Hancher University
of Kentucky / Civil Engineering and Dave
Schulz Northwestern
University / Infrastructure Technology Institute
9:40 AM Review of the Meeting Agenda - Ted
Hopwood University
of Kentucky / Kentucky Transportation Center
9:45 AM Forthcoming FHWA Initiatives - Ray
McCormick FHWA
10:30 AM A State DOT View on Pending Revisions to
the NBIS - John Coleman Virginia
DOT
11:00 AM Open Discussion on Revisions
to the NBIS & Other
Topics of Interest - Rick Smith Michigan
DOT, Moderator
1:00 PM Short Span Bridges: Problems and
Inspection Procedures - Mike Hallien Indiana
DOT and Mike Garlich Collins
Engineering
2:00 PM Relocation of a Section of the Elevated
Railway at Wacker Drive - Speaker from the Chicago
DOT
3:15 PM Review of Russian Bridges in the State
of Perm - Ted Hopwood University
of Kentucky / Kentucky Transportation Center
4:15 PM Plan Future Meeting Location / Topic
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