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Bridge Bundling 4 Ribbon Cutting

November 22, 2023 By Britt Bassett

We thank Lycoming County Commissioners and Planning and Community Development Department for granting Bassett Engineering the opportunity to help lead this historic Bridge Bundling Program. Together we studied, designed, engineered and constructed 17 bridges at a total cost of roughly $7,100,000, or an average of $420,000 per bridge, which is an outstanding value. We started in June 2020 during COVID and completed the entire Program in just 3½ years working with 3 contractors and 3 manufacturers under 4 separate Bundles.

We congratulate Lycoming County on taking the lead on this groundbreaking project whereby the Commissioners took responsibility to repair and replace municipally-owned bridges at great political cost due to utilizing the unjustly controversial vehicle registration fee.  Bundling multiple bridges under one program is critical to realizing an economy of scale. We completed several bridge bundling projects for individual municipalities, but only a couple at a time. The County has the financial resources and just as critical the experienced transportation planning staff in Mark Murawski, Shannon Rossman, Scott Williams, Austin Dailey and Sal Vitko to bundle a large group of bridges under one project, and that large number is needed to realize true economies of scale. 

Civil infrastructure including airports and railways, ports, roads and bridges, water and sewer systems are the foundational building blocks of civilization itself. which cannot function absent good quality roads and bridges. Constructing and maintaining civil infrastructure is one of the primary tasks of government.  Unfortunately, civil infrastructure has been abused by many elements of society who hijack it for their own questionable purposes and in so doing inflate the costs to subsidize their own goals, which are unrelated to the infrastructure itself. The common excuse is that civil infrastructure is so important that cost is no object. 

Another critical function of government is its fiduciary responsibility to maximize the effectiveness of its expenditures to minimize the costs on the taxpayers who support it.  Government should function as cost effectively as possible, particularly at the County and Municipal level, which do not print money and do not have wide latitude to raise taxes.  Lycoming County has always embraced its fiscal responsibility, particularly our 3 commissioners, Tony Mussare, Scott Metzger and Rick Mirabito.  A key aspect to bridge bundling is its cost-effectiveness through the use of COSTARS to prepurchase aluminum and concrete box culverts and concrete arches, and through bundling multiple similar bridges under a single construction contract. We built 4 aluminum box culverts under Bundle 1, 5 precast concrete box culverts and arches under Bundle 2, 5 GRS bridges under Bundle 3, and 3 conventional beam bridge under Bundle 4. 

Lycoming County Commissioners and Planners have developed a model for future bridge bundles (hopefully) here in the County, and for other Counties to follow and we than you again for the trust you have placed in Bassett Engineering in allowing us to share in this groundbreaking program. 

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Completed Project: Old Cement Road

November 16, 2023 By Britt Bassett

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program: Bundle 4

Old Cement Road, Fairfield Township

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of another bridge under Bundle 4 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program!

The bridge is situated where Old Cement Road crosses Tules Run outside Montoursville. Due to its location in a busy suburb and next door to the Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority facilities, the bridge is heavily used for a local route.

This project involved replacing two deficient beams within the bridge and casting a composite desk, tying all of the beams into a monolithic unit. BE increased the overhangs of the bridge and selected vertical wall barriers to maximize the clear width of the structure.

Construction of the improvements was completed by Kevin E. Raker Construction and the bridge was opened to traffic in September of 2023. 

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Bassett Engineering’s Bridge Bundling Featured in PA Township News Article

May 17, 2023 By Olivia Novak

Bassett Engineering is thrilled to announce that our innovative approach to bridge bundling has been featured in the May edition of Pennsylvania Township News. Our unique method has saved our clients both time and money by bundling multiple bridges into a single project, streamlining engineering and construction. This allows our team to deliver projects faster and more efficiently, ensuring that our clients can achieve their goals.

Check out the article below, and stay updated on our fourth bundle by following us on LinkedIn and Facebook!

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Completed Project: Montgomery Park Road

February 7, 2023 By Olivia Novak

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program: Bundle 3

Montgomery Park Road, Montgomery Borough

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of another bridge under Bundle 3 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program!

The bridge is situated in Montgomery Park, where Park Road crosses Adams Creek, roughly 500 feet from its mouth on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Due to its location in the Park, serving two baseball fields and the boat launch, the bridge is heavily used at certain times of the year.

Adams Creek is a warm water fishery located in the level floodplain of the river. The low velocities allowed the use of a Geosynthetic Reinforced Soils Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS) bridge, which offered the greatest hydraulic opening at the lowest cost for this span. 

The installation for this project was handled by Rylind Construction, and the bridge was opened to traffic in December of 2022. 

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Check out another bridge from Bundle 3

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Completed Project: Zinck Road

February 7, 2023 By Olivia Novak

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program: Bundle 3

Zinck Road, Mifflin Township

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of another bridge in Bundle 3 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program.

The bridge is situated right off Route 287, where Zinck Road crosses a small unnamed tributary to Larrys Creek. The low stream velocities at the site enabled the use of a Geosynthetic Reinforced Soils Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS), which was well-suited for the low-profile structure on a low-ADT road. GRS also offered the ability to orient with Zinck Road’s skew to the stream.

The installation of this project was handled by Rylind Construction, and the bridge was completed in December of 2022.

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Check out another bridge from Bundle 3

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Completed Project: Winner Lane

February 7, 2023 By Olivia Novak

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program: Bundle 3

Winner Lane, Gamble Township

Bassett Engineering is pleased to announce the completion of Winner Lane Bridge! The bridge is a part of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program, Bundle 3.

This bridge sits at the lower end of a marshy field over Murray Run, an Exceptional Value natural reproduction trout stream. The low stream velocities enabled the use of a Geosynthetic Reinforced Soils Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS), which is well-suited for the low-profile structure on a low-ADT road. GRS also offered the ability to orient with Winner Lane’s skew to Murray Run. The abutment was shaped to fit the superelevation of the road surface that suits the curve of the road at the bridge while meeting the bridge alignment.

The installation for this project was handled by Rylind Construction, and Winner Lane was opened to traffic in October of 2022!

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Check out another bridge from Bundle 3

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Filed Under: Bassett Engineering News Tagged With: Bridges, Lycoming County

Completed Project: Valley Road Culvert Replacements

October 26, 2020 By Bassett Engineering

Bassett Engineering assisted Madison Township, Columbia County with the full engineering of two new aluminum box culverts at separate locations on Valley Road. This project was awarded $154,000 in DCED Multimodal Transportation Funds and $80,000 in the Dirt and Gravel Roads Program funding. The south site also included reconstructing approximately 220 LF of the road to raise the roadway elevation along with grading a field entrance and drainage swale.  Both culverts included installation of aluminum box culverts with full invert, headwalls and toewalls. Sellers Contracting was the contractor for this project and did a great job putting everything together.

Check out the full details on the project page!

https://bassetteng.com/civil/valley-road-culvert-replacements/

North Culvert

South Culvert

Filed Under: Bassett Engineering News Tagged With: Aluminum Box Culverts, Bridges, Columbia County, DCED, Dirt and Gravel, Funding, Madison Township, Multimodal Funding

Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Announcement

June 25, 2020 By Bassett Engineering

Lycoming County Commissioners awarded its Bridge Bundling Program to Bassett Engineering on June 11, 2020.  Seventeen bridges will be replaced or repaired at an estimated total construction cost of $6.9 million, making this our largest bridge project to date. The bridges will be bundled in a series of construction projects, each project being planned to include 4 to 5 bridges. This program will be the first of its kind in the state, a partnership where Lycoming County is taking the lead in joining with 17 municipalities in the County which actually own the bridges. Wallace Montgomery and Associates, one of the mid-Atlantic’s premier bridge engineers will be our subconsultant. Construction is planned to be complete by the end of 2023.

You can read more about our new project thanks to the feature that is in the Sun Gazette.

Filed Under: Bassett Engineering News Tagged With: Bridge Bundling, Bridges, Lycoming County, Sun Gazette, Wallace Montgomery

Completed Project: Madison Township Bridge Repairs

March 10, 2020 By Bassett Engineering

Bassett Engineering designed, bid, and supervised construction of the bridge repairs for two structures in Madison Township, Columbia County, PA. The project consisted of repairing 2 rigid frame concrete bridges located at Camp Road over Hemlock Creek and Christy Hill Road over Black Run. The repairs consisted of gunite applied to abutment legs, wings, footings, collars and deck undersides, replacement of missing/collapsed wings, and placement of rock protection.

Contact Bassett Engineering to see if we can help your municipality today!

Camp Road

Christy Hill Road

Filed Under: Bassett Engineering News Tagged With: Bridges, Columbia County, Gunite, Madison Township, Repair

Bassett Engineering Bridges

November 19, 2018 By Bassett Engineering

Over the past year, Bassett Engineering supervised construction of our two largest bridge designs to date, as well as several others. BE worked with the townships to obtain funding from PennDOT, FEMA, and other sources. Contact us today with your bridge needs!

Our newest bridge work includes:

  • Back Road Bridge: An 80-foot traditional prestressed concrete box beam bridge for Washington Township, Lycoming County
  • A 66-foot precast concrete BEBO arch bridge for Lewis Township, Lycoming County (2018)
  • Aluminum box culvert for Lewis Township, Union County (2018)

    Back Road Bridge in Washington Township

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