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1996 Excellence in Highway Design
Category 3 - Major Highway Structures - Over $10 Million
Award of Merit
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Bridge
St. George's, Delaware
| Designer: | Figg Engineering Group |
| Contractor: | Recchi America, Inc. |
The C&D Canal Bridge is the first major concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge structure to be completed in the Northeast where it holds the record for the longest concrete span at 230 m (750 feet). The 1,390 m (4,560 feet) long bridge is a precast segmental structure with twin parallel box girders that provide six lanes of travel to a highly congested corridor.