When the American Bridge team was awarded the $56.8-million design-build contract to build its replacement, the original Pinellas Bayway bridge had reached the end of its useful life and had no dedicated multimodal capacities—and was often stuck open or closed.
The joint venture of American Bridge and Fluor Corp. has reached a settlement valued at $34 million with the California Transportation Dept. (Caltrans) to end a five-year dispute involving faulty seismic anchor rods used for the $6.5-billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge rebuild.
