ECI – Engineers Construction

Engineers Construction, Inc. won the 2011 AGC-VT Best Builder Award for the Irene Emergency Repairs to the Green Mountain Railway Bridge #114 in Chester, Vermont.

The project involved restoring railway service to the storm-damaged 112-ft-long thru-truss bridge over the Williams River.  The Irene flooding had severely scoured around the abutments causing them to fail.  This left the 248,000 lb bridge precariously listing with 3 of the 4 bearings unsupported.  The only thing keeping the bridge from toppling into the river was the restraint from the jointed rail.  ECI put the bridge back into service on September 14th, just 13 days after mobilizing to the project.