Segmental Concrete Bridge Team Member Profile

W. Denney Pate, P.E.
Senior Vice President/Principal Bridge Engineer

FIGG BRIDGE ENGINEERS, INC.

EDUCATION

• BS Civil Engineering Auburn University, 1978
• MS Civil Engineering Auburn University, 1980

REGISTRATIONS

• Professional Engineer - Florida, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania
• Certified by NCEES

OTHER RECOGNITIONS

• FHWA, Segmental Bridge Virtual Committee Member
• Post-Tensioning Institute / Cable-Stayed Bridge Committee Member
• American Segmental Bridge Institute Member
• Concrete segmental cable-stayed bridges with spans of 630' to 1,200' where Denney was engineer have received over 30 design awards.
• Past Chairman of Figg Engineering Group's Design Council, the highest level of design authority within the firm.
• 1991 Creating Raving Fans Award for Best Service to Our Customers
• 1996 W. Jack Wilkes Award - Highest Award of Recognition for Figg Engineering Group
• 1997 Winner of Vanguard of Quality Award for Figg Engineering Group

EXPERIENCE

• 22 years of extensive experience in long span concrete bridges and complex cable-stayed bridge design and construction. Experience includes responsibilities for all aspects of managing large bridge projects. Denney has had leadership responsibilities on seven cable-stayed bridges - experience that is specialized and unique in the bridge industry.
• Maumee River Crossing, Ohio - precast segmental cable stayed main span and approaches on I-280 over the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio. The cable stayed main span includes a glass-faced single pylon and single plane of stays with a 612' - 6" span on each side of the pylon. The bridge length is 8,798' with a total deck area of 1.3 million square feet. Denney was the lead technical bridge engineer/project manager responsible for the bridge in design and will continue this role throughout construction.
• Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge, Delaware - precast concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge with a 750' main span opened to traffic in December 1995. This bridge had a $6.2 million savings against the steel design, was completed on schedule, under the bid price and without any claims. The main span is 129' wide and cost $117/s.f. It has received ten (10) design awards. Denney was the lead technical bridge engineer/project manager in charge of the bridge for final design and throughout construction.
• I-295 Varina-Enon Bridge, Virginia - precast concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge with 630' main span dedicated on July 18, 1990. There was a $10 million savings against the state's estimate. The bridge introduced state-of-the-art precast delta frames for the cable-stayed system that resulted in a main span cost of only $75 sq. ft. It has received seven (7) design awards. In addition to bridge design engineer responsibilities, Denney was the assistant resident engineer for two (2) years (1987 - 1989) responsible for all technical aspects during construction of this unique cable-stayed bridge.
• Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida - 1,200' main span precast concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic April 30, 1987 and has received 14 design awards, including the 1988 Presidential Award through the National Endowment for the Arts. Denney was a key bridge engineer working full-time from the conceptual design through completion of construction involving a period of nearly five (5) years. He was a member of the original design team responsible for post-tensioning and cable-stay optimization and construction sequence of the 4,000' main span unit -- 1,200', 540'and 240' spans.
• Smart Road Bridge, Virginia - Denney was lead technical bridge engineer/project manager for this cast-in-place segmental concrete bridge constructed in the balanced cantilever method. It is a single box girder 1,985' long; 39' wide with three 472' spans and end spans of 284'. The bridge is part of the Smart Road Research project utilized by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.
• Charles River Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts - Denney was the lead bridge engineer/project manager for our firm on the design of the concrete cable-stayed back spans and for coordinating with the steel and concrete composite 745' main span designed by another consultant. The bridge is 10 lanes wide, with two lanes cantilevered outside of the mainspan stay cables.