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Located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee, Bridge 2 of the Foothills Parkway has received the 2014 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Award for Best Bridge with Span Over 150 Feet.
The designers...
The view from Craggy Gardens (left) is one of many vistas that the parkway made accessible to the public. Where rock cuts were necessary, crews typically reduced the gradient of the back slope for a more natural contour.
Davey's Bridge is located on the Banks-Lowman Highway, part of the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway in Boise County, Idaho. It was recognized in the fall 2014 issue of Aspire, The Concrete Bridge Magazine.
The use of precast,...
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic highway set high in the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. Unlike a standard highway that is optimized to carry the maximum number of vehicles from here to there, directly as...
In 1934, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the Manning Crevice Bridge as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt s efforts to create jobs during the Great Depression. Fast forward 83 years. FLH is nearing completion on the construction of a safer and stronger...
In 1918, during World War I, the U.S. Army Signal Corp built the Spruce Railroad Trail to haul Sitka Spruce to mills for the manufacture of airplanes. Nearly 70 years after blasting the tunnel mouth shut in the...
To accomplish the daunting task of building a new bridge during the weather constraints found in Alaska, FLH worked an extremely aggressive schedule, relying on exceptional planning skills and leadership to...
Federal Lands Highway (FLH) serves the transportation needs of Federal and Indian lands through partnership and cooperative agreements with state and local governments and other federal agencies. The Federal Land Management Agencies, each with their own unique missions and values, rely on FLH to facilitate and manage the planning, environmental documentation, design and construction of projects impacting and accessing the lands they manage.