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"Since the bridge has been open, it has
relatively uneventful, which is a good
thing," Keierleber says. "There are no
more combines getting stuck. Reconstruc-
tion of the bridge has had a huge [posi-
tive] impact on the community."
Testing out the software and knowing
the county no longer has to be as reliant
on federal funding has also made a sig-
nificant impact, Keierleber says. "Now we
can go online and preliminarily design our
bridge."
For more articles from the Better Roads "Better
Bridges" section, including its "Annual Bridge
Inventory," go to betterroads.com/category/
technology-2/better-bridges.
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For more information:
• American Galvanizers Association: galvanizeit.org
• Creating the Buchanan County Bridge Design with
eSPAN140 blog: betterroads.com/jesup-bridge
• eSPAN140: espan140.com
• eSPAN140 presentation by Dr. Michael Barker,
University of Wyoming: teamconference.org/2013/
Short_Span_Steel_Bridges.pdf
• Iowa Department of Transportation news:
news.iowadot.gov
• Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA):
shortspansteelbridges.org
