Jim Harkness

And a lot of those estimates were based on when that bridge was built in 1975.

Just building and putting in the foundations out in the water is about a year's process.

Then we start coming vertical and building those towers at the 600 feet, approximately two years.

And then, yeah, like, there's more on the other side.

With a bridge of this size, of this complexity, we are going to be including some structural health monitoring.

So that is some elements that will be on some of the pieces of the new cable-stayed bridge that will be able to give us data about how the bridge is performing.

We also have, because we have 600-foot towers, we'll have some mechanical equipment in there as well.

We'll have some elevators installed.

enabling access for the bridge.

It allows us for maintenance to get up into where the cables anchor into those main pylons and access portions of the bridge for inspection as well.

Since we're close to the port, we get some larger, heavier loads that come across or want to come across.

Big trucks are going across the bridge.

The former bridge had load restrictions, so above a certain weight, we couldn't bring it over the bridge.

we'll have ability to handle more loads going to and coming from the port.

But at the same time, because we'll have some of this data, we'll be able to understand how the bridge is reacting to those increased loads and then have confidence that we're able to continue to deliver that service to the port.

That's right, yeah.

So you can monitor the performance of those key structural members using data and not just kind of using some of your computational methods, but you'll actually be able to do your computational method and then kind of look at the data output and understand if it's matching up and if there's anything of concern.

Yes.

So you can kind of monitor that performance in real time or near real time.

And so then you can actually see how your structure responds to the traffic going over it.