Bronx-Whitestone Bridge

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Bronx-Whitestone Bridge - a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City

Greater New York, New York, New York City - the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center

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Nietzschmann, who will be based in WSP's New York City office, has led the engineering of many significant structures, including the Bayonne Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Queensboro (Ed Koch) Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Park Avenue Railroad Viaduct, RFK (Triborough) Bridge, George Washington Bridge and Madison Avenue Bridge, among others.

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“He played a critical role in winning many of our recent design projects, specifically seismic investigation of the RFK Bridge, deck replacement of the Throgs Neck Bridge, West Thames Pedestrian Bridge, and structural repairs and cable evaluation for the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.”

Sam Summerville to Head Weidlinger's Transportation Group; Qi Ye Promoted to Transportation Principal

To illustrate, here are two projects - the Verrazano Bridge and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge - for which GPI provided construction engineering and inspection services during lead abatement and re-coating.

A lead-abatement strategy for bridge painting projects

In some cases, such as the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the only damgae was to trusses, which ultimately had to be replaced.

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

He was also responsible for reanchoring a substantial portion of a Manhattan Bridge main cable (a national award winner) and reinforcing the anchorage eye-bars on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. These projects and others for which he was principal-in-charge were critical to public safety and were conceived and carried out to minimize impact on commuters and the general public.