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What's New?
January 2003 - The decks have arrived!
A barge carrying the 24 deck elements
arrived in the San Francisco Bay this month.
The barge set out a month ago across the
Pacific Ocean from Japan, and recently arrived
on site with the massive structures. The
deck elements will be transported directly
from the deck of the ocean carrier vessel
by means of jacking system.
:: Click here for photos of the new arrivals
December 2002
Steel is arriving at the end of January
and installation of the suspenders is ongoing.
Crews continue to test the lifting equipment
that will be used for the bridge decks.
After the wires of the two main cables
were spun in December, the two cables were
mechanically compacted. The cable compaction
is maintained by thin metal straps, or "cable
bands", which crews are currently placing
onto the cables. The vertical hangers (suspenders),
that will carry the deck elements, will
hang from these cable bands.
The first shipment of eight of the total
24 deck elements will soon arrive from Japan.
The first ship is due to set sail in the
beginning of January, arriving on site about
a month later.
Summer 2002
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Cable
spinning began in August at Carquinez,
where they used the controlled tension
method. Learn more about cable spinning
in our "spinning
spotlight". |
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See
these amazing
photos of the footbridge construction.
This temporary footbridge runs north-south
between the towers and will follow the
same trajectory as the future cables.
Curious about what's been happening
this summer at the Carquinez jobsite?
See what
we've done this summer in Northern
California. |
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