Bassett Engineering is excited to be awarded the Construction Inspection contract by the City of Williamsport for the 2022 City Paving project. The City Council voted and approved the contract at the last City Council meeting. This is the first time that the City of Williamsport hired a Construction Inspector for a City paving project. Bassett will be inspecting the resurfacing of over 20 City streets and newly constructed ADA curb ramps. Ensuring the quality of work and keeping a great line of communication between field operations and the City of Williamsport will ensure great success on this project. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to work for the City and provide the local community with a high-quality project.

The awarding of the contract was announced in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, click HERE to view the article!

Tunkhannock Township’s Fox Road Bridge project made headlines in the March edition of the PSAT’s Township News magazine. The feature highlights Tunkhannock Township receiving $2 million in multimodal grants for repairs. Also, many of the new design upgrades include significant geometric, hydraulic, and safety improvements for all motorists and pedestrians that use the roadway. Bassett Engineering designed, permitted, bid, and inspected the construction of the installation of the brand new 106-foot single-span, 22′ clear-width prestressed concrete bulb-beam bridge.

The ability to obtain grants and loans is an important component of a Consultant’s role in assisting communities. Bassett Engineering has had extensive success with obtaining a combination of Federal and State grants and loans for clients. For more funding information, please visit: https://bassetteng.com/funding-assistance/, or contact us for any funding assistance needs.

Click on the link below to view the March edition of the PSAT’s Township News magazine. The Fox Road Bridge project is featured on pages 10 and 18.

https://www.psats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/March2022-PTN-Free-Article.pdf

Britt Bassett of Bassett Engineering presented an update on the Bridge Bundling Program at last week’s Lycoming County Commissioners Meeting. Britt was joined by Austin Daily in giving the overview of the 17 bridges included in the project, which has been divided into four bundles over a period of three years. The county is currently working on bundle 2 and is set to open bids for bundle 3.

To view the full-length article please click on the link: https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2022/03/bridge-bundling-program-updated-at-recent-commissioners-meeting/

Bassett Engineering is thrilled to be featured in Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association’s Engineer Week. The feature highlights a series of completed projects, as well as a current project for the Lackawanna River Basin Sewer Authority.

Click HERE to view the feature!

Bridge Bundle 2, which is part of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program was featured in the Sun-Gazette. To view the article click on the link below!

https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2022/02/bridge-bundling-2-set-to-start-in-spring/

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce that construction of the Guaranteed Energy Savings Biosolids Treatment Improvements Project at the Altoona Water Authority’s Westerly Wastewater Treatment Facility is more than two-thirds done. Covers have been constructed on both one-million-gallon anaerobic digesters. Co-digestion and sludge drying are the next phases of construction, which will begin in the spring. Bassett Engineering consulted for Energy Systems Group (ESG) through design and construction, obtained all DEP Permits: AQM, WQM, GP-5, Ch 102, and is the Engineer-of-Record for the $36.7 million loan funding the project, which is the Agency’s first funding of a GESA design-build construction project.

Click the link below to view ESG’s full article on the project:

https://news.energysystemsgroup.com/construction-nearly-complete-at-altoona-water-authority-westerly-facility/

An aluminum box culvert on Klump Road that Bassett Engineering designed for Hepburn Township was featured in a recent nortcentralpa.com article. The bridge was part of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program in Bundle 1, which was completed in 2021.

The article discusses the influx of the infrastructure bill in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which is planned to be used to repair or replace 3,000 bridges. To view our featured bridge or more information from the article, click on the link below.

https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/state/pa-to-receive-1-6-billion-for-bridge-development/article_34144e3c-756f-11ec-873f-ab98800497e1.html

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program Bundle 1
COMPLETED: 2021

Bassett Engineering is pleased to announce the completion of Bundle 1 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program. The bridge bundling program is meant to upgrade local bridges at significantly lower costs than if each bridge was repaired or replaced individually. Cost savings result from the considerable economy of scale gained by building multiple bridges of the same type under one contract. Bassett Engineering conducted a feasibility study considering a wide variety of bridge types to determine the optimum structure for each location. This program also involved a steering committee of the seventeen municipalities, PennDOT, PADEP, PA Fish & Boat, and the Lycoming County Conservation District.

The project is split into four bundles: each bundle consists of 3 to 5 bridges of the same structure type. The Feasibility Study began in July 2020. Bundle 1 was designed in 2020 and early 2021 and constructed in 2021. Bundles 2 and 3 are being designed in 2021 and will be constructed in 2022. Bundle 4 will be designed in 2022 and constructed in 2023.

Bundle 1: Aluminum Box Culverts

Aluminum Box Culverts (ALBC’s) offer the greatest hydraulic opening at the lowest cost for any full highway traffic-rated structure for spans up to 20 – 25 feet.

• Eldred Township, Calebs Creek Road
• Hepburn Township, Klump Road
• Limestone Township, Mill Road
• Muncy Township, Auchmuty Road

Scroll down below to see all the bridges that were completed in Bundle 1 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program.

Bassett Engineering was excited to celebrate the completion of the Fox Road Bridge in Tunkhannock Township with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony this December. Tunkhannock Township Supervisors, and staff, State Representative Lisa Baker, Representative of Gene Yaw Bassett Engineering, Susquehanna Valley Construction Corporation, and members of the local community joined together to celebrate the opening of the bridge. Despite a late start to construction due to funding the bridge was completed and opened before the holidays!

The Ribbon Cutting event was featured on PA Home Page, to view the news segment click the image below or click HERE.

Bassett Engineering surveyed, designed, obtained permits, and provided construction phase engineering including inspection during installation of the Cemetery Road bridge replacement. The bridge is located on Cemetery Road over East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek in Wharton Township, Potter County. The brand new bridge is a 42-ft span by 24-foot long by 10 ft-high precast concrete arch with cast-in-place footings. The contractor for this project was Charles J. Merlo Inc. out of Mineral Point, PA, they purchased the precast arch from an approved supplier and installed the same. A PennDOT Multimodal Transportation Fund grant which was awarded in March of 2021 helped offset construction costs. The arch itself, headwalls, wing walls, and wing wall footers were precast concrete along with precast ‘Express’ concrete forms for the arch foundations, within which the Contractor cast concrete in place. All precast superstructure pieces were delivered and erected in one work day. Fantastic work to all who were involved with the project, excited for people in Wharton Township to enjoy the new bridge!