The Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge Project

    As you’ve driven west to St. Louis over the last four years — whether on Interstate 55/70 or I-64 — it’s been hard not to see Keeley & Sons of East St. Louis hard at work. That’s because the company has played such a huge role in the construction of the various components of…

    Over the past five years Kaskaskia Engineering Group has been involved in many facets of the new Mississippi River bridge project, working on multiple engineering teams.    To speed up the project, the Illinois Department of Transportation split the Illinois work into three pieces and selected different engineering firms for each piece. There was the…

    Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. began its work on the new Mississippi River bridge project in late 2008. By the end of 2009, CMT’s engineers had completed their design.    CMT is a full-service consulting engineering firm that specializes in four areas: aviation, highways and bridges, water and wastewater and land development. Greg Law is…

    As the Mississippi River Bridge project went through design and construction, a common concern among drivers was that the new bridge fixed part of the problem.    A bigger problem was the flow of traffic between the Congressman William L. Clay Sr. Bridge (commonly known as the Poplar Street Bridge) and Interstate 55.    “We’ve always…

    Geotechnology, Inc. was one of the first firms involved in the design of the new Mississippi River bridge, providing geotechnical work on the original design. That design eventually had to be greatly modified in order to whittle approximately $1 billion off the price tag.     The St. Louis-based firm drilled down into the bedrock…

    A big reason that the $660 million Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge complex is being delivered on time and on budget is due to labor, according to Terry Nelson, executive secretary-treasurer of the Carpenters’ District Council of St. Louis and Vicinity.    “The construction unions worked together with IDOT and MODOT and the general contractors,”…

    One hundred and 40 years after the Eads Bridge first connected Missouri and Illinois, the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge is open for traffic.    Construction of the bridge itself was the job of a joint venture comprised of Kansas City, Mo.-based Massman Construction, Traylor Bros., Inc. from Evansville, Ind., and Alberici Constructors, Inc. of…