DINNER MEETING
"THE WOODROW WILSON BRIDGE PROJECT"
Social Hour…….5:30 PM
Dinner…….6:30 PM
Program……..7:30 PM
The Holiday Inn - Harrisburg West
5401 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg
All are welcome – Members, potential members, guests and friends!
Important Note for Students: Students are strongly encouraged to bring copies of resumes!!
Dinner and program cost $20, (Students $5) payable at the door (check or cash).Dinner will be a Buffet with a choice of Roast Top Sirloin of Beef Au Jus, and Shrimp and Crab Creole over White Rice, with an appetizer of Finger Wraps.
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PROGRAM ABSTRACT:The Woodrow Wilson Bridge carries the I-95/I-495 Capital Beltway over the Potomac River at Alexandria, Virginia. It contains one of the 13 drawbridges on the entire U.S. Interstate highway system. Due to substantial growth in and around the Washington metropolitan area, travel demand across the bridge has grown to 200,000 vehicles per day and 11% large trucks, more than twice its original design capacity of 75,000 vehicles per day. The option chosen as a replacement by the local governmental and public involvement process, and the state and federal DOTs (FHWA, VDOT, MDOT SHA, and DC DPW), will be to build a new 12-lane facility, with twin bascule spans with 70 feet of vertical navigational clearance when closed, and widened 12-lane dual-dual beltway for several miles on each approach. The additional 20 feet of main span clearance will reduce drawbridge openings by two-thirds. The cost of this option will be $2.2 billion. Construction began on October 20, 2000. The first 6-lane new Potomac River bridge is expected to open for traffic in 2005, and the entire project is expected to be complete in 2008. The existing Potomac River bridge will be demolished and removed. — Roads to the future.com
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:Robert J. Healy has had a twenty-six year career in civil engineering. He began his career with the Maryland State Highway Administration in 1977 as a design engineer with the Bureau of Highway Design. In 1981 he transferred to the Bureau of Bridge Design where he served as a design engineer, project engineer and finally as a senior team leader. He served as project manager for dozens of highway and bridge projects, most notably the Nanticoke River bridge in Vienna, the I95/US 50 interchange reconstruction, the Bohemia River bridge replacement, the MD Route 32 construction in Anne Arundel County and the Route 50 reconstruction between Washington and Annapolis.
Bob left the SHA in 1992 to join T.Y. Lin International as the office manager for their Alexandria, Virginia office. In his four years there he managed the thirty person staff performing civil, structural and transportation engineering projects on the East Coast. Some notable projects included the replacement of the Million Dollar Bridge over the Fore River in Portland, Maine, the new I-90/Logan Airport interchange in Boston, the Topsham-Brunswick Bypass in Maine, the Thomas Circle/Massachusetts Avenue reconstruction in Washington D.C., and numerous bridge replacement and rehabilitation projects for the Virginia DOT.
Bob returned to the Maryland SHA in 1996 where he now serves as the Deputy Director of the Office of Bridge Development. In addition to his routine duties in the management of daily operations of that office, Bob has been heavily involved in a number of major ongoing projects such as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Replacement.
Bob received a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware in 1977 and a Master’s degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1980. He is a registered professional engineer in Maryland and Virginia is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Maryland Association of Engineers.
Bob currently resides in Crofton, MD with his wife Celia, two daughters, Donna and Elaine, and one son, Brett.
Click here to read an article from the latest Steel Bridge Forum Newsletter where Bob is quoted regarding the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project.
Bob Healy with John Buchheit