Harris County’s most costly do-over finally is above water along the Houston Ship Channel. Workers Tuesday started dumping concrete on the first of four massive footings that will hold up a new bridge carrying the Sam Houston Tollway over the waterway.
Construction of the new Ship Channel Bridge, seen Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Houston, stopped in January 2020 so Harris County could get a second opinion on the initial design. Serious concerns with the proposed design were found. To fix the problems and keep construction on track the county will pay $291.5 million more for the $1 billion project - now costing $1.3 billion - and not have the first of two side-by-side bridges built until 2025.
Crews have spent 11 months replacing the foundations of the new Ship Channel Bridge along the Sam Houston Tollway. Workers start pouring the new, larger, taller concrete foundations of the redesigned bridge on Tuesday at the Houston Ship Channel.Though the changes along the Sam Houston Tollway largely will go unnoticed by drivers for months, structurally they are significant, starting at the ground level.
Creating that thicker, wider base, however, will be a long process. Prasad Jasti, project manager for the bridge, said each of the 514-foot towers is broken into 16 sections. The concrete pours for each section should take about 20 days, equating about a year's worth of work to get the towers topped before the cable-stay bridge can be built.
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