The Missouri Dept. of Transportation and its contractor, KCI Construction, have reached an agreement on a costly fix needed to repair 80 girders on a bridge that was damaged during an ongoing $63-million rehabilitation project on Interstate 55 in Missouri.
St. Louis-based KCI Construction will replace both the girders and the bearings on one of 13 bridges undergoing rehabilitation on Interstate 55 between Lindbergh, Mo., and Interstate 44 in St. Louis. The bridge was damaged in October when an unnamed demolition subcontractor who was removing the road surface used a breaker hammer and caused significant damage to the span’s structural steel girders.
