ABOUT US PROJECTS SAFETY NEWS CAREERS EQUIPMENT CONTACT Search form Search 126_070925 EB Span 51 End Girder Erection_Edit_Hero.jpg MASSMAN NEWS PPP BEGINS WORK ON NEW BELLE CHASSE BRIDGE OVER GIWW BY FRANK MCCORMACK | The Waterways Journal Weekly The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) held a virtual groundbreaking ceremony April 12 for the project to replace the Judge Perez Bridge, a vertical lift bridge over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) in Belle Chasse, La., and the accompanying tunnel that passes under the canal. READ MORE > MASSMAN-CLARKSON JOINT VENTURE SELECTED TO BUILD BUCK O'NEIL BRIDGE BY ROBERT A. CRONKLETON I The Kansas City Star A joint venture involving three Kansas City firms will design and build the new Buck O’Neil Bridge over the Missouri River near the Wheeler Downtown Airport, Missouri highway officials announced Wednesday. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has selected Massman-Clarkson joint venture as the design-build contractor to replace the bridge formerly known as the Broadway Bridge. Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2021 and be completed by late fall 2024. READ MORE > MASSMAN REPLACES ANCHORAGES AT LOCKS 24 AND 25 By Waterways Journal Earlier this year, Massman Construction replaced the anchorages for the miter gates at Locks 24 and 25 on the Upper Mississippi River. Lock 24 is located near Clarksville, Mo., while Lock 25 is near Winfield, Mo. READ MORE > MASSMAN RECOGNIZED FOR COLUMBIA LOCK REPAIRS BY FRANK MCCORMACK | The Waterways Journal Weekly In July 2018, the Vicksburg Engineer District announced an emergency closure at Columbia Lock on the Ouachita River in the northeast corner of Louisiana. District personnel investigating seepage and sand boils at the structure had discovered voids under a lock wall. READ MORE > CHAMP CLARK BRIDGE RANKED NO. 5 IN TOP 10 BRIDGES OF 2019 Roads & Bridges Originally completed in 1928, the Champ Clark Bridge--so named for a former Missouri Speaker of the House--stood as a landmark along the Mississippi River for nearly a century. But like all man-made creations, its serviceable life eventually and inevitably came to an end—and a new alternative was required. READ MORE > NRC SMALL PROJECT OF THE YEAR - GRAND RIVER BRIDGE December 17, 2019 | Railway Track & Structures - Bill Wilson Each year the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association recognizes exemplary performance among member contractors, their employees and retirees by presenting a series of awards. The NRC is pleased to announce the winners of its 2019 annual awards competition. READ MORE > CMAR CONTRACTOR SELECTED FOR MID-BRETON SEDIMENT DIVERSION April 8, 2019 | Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Press Release Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) selected the Louisiana Diversion Company (LDC) to provide Construction Management At-Risk (CMAR) services for the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion Project, the agency announced Monday. The CMAR model integrates the construction contractor during the early design phase of the project to obtain input on cost, scheduling and constructability, a process that is expected to lower READ MORE > GOETHALS BRIDGE: ENR NEW YORK'S PROJECT OF THE YEAR September 27, 2018 | Tom Stabile, ENR.com Goethals Bridge Replacement Project New York City and Elizabeth, NJ Best Project, Highway/Bridge and Excellence In Safety Key Players Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Lead Design Firm, Civil/Structural/MEP Engineer: Parsons General Contractor: Kiewit-Weeks-Massman AJV READ MORE > NEW GOETHALS BRIDGE SET TO OPEN TO TRAFFIC ON MONDAY May 17, 2018 | Paul Berger, The Wall Street Journal Vehicles will begin streaming across the second and final span of the new $1.5 billion Goethals Bridge on Monday. The bridge, which carries about 90,000 vehicles each day over a tidal strait between Elizabeth, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y., is on schedule to be completed on time and within budget, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Once the finishing touches-such as lane painting and removal of the old bridge-are comlpeted later this year, it will mark a rare win for the Port Authirty, an agency that has been criticized for delays and overspending on other projects. Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton said Thursday that the new bridge would double road capacity on a busy trucking route close to a major airport and seaports around Newark. The first span opened last summer. READ MORE > PINNACLE REMOVAL RESUMES ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI NEAR THEBES January 1, 2018 | David Murray, The Waterways Journal Weekly Taking advantage of extreme low water, the Corps of Engineers resumed rock removal dredging operations near Thebes, Ill., on December 13 in an area of the Mississippi River stretching from 38 to 46 miles above its confluence with the Ohio River. The Corps’ rock removal contractor, Massman Construction Co., had begun work in October but paused when water levels rose. Massman is completing work begun in 2013 to remove potentially hazardous rock pinnacles. Enough work was completed then to allow safe transit at most river levels. Additional work had to wait until water levels dropped to very low levels, as they have now. READ MORE > BROADWAY BRIDGE WINS AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION AWARD September 28, 2017 Massman Construction Co.'s Broadway Bridge project was recently recognized during the Southern Regional America’s Transportation Awards competition. Sponsored by AASHTO, AAA, and the US Chamber of commerce, the project was recognized in the competition’s Operations Excellence category. Partnering with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, Massman provided construction services for the $100M replacement bridge over the Arkansas River. READ MORE > CONSTRUCTION FOR NEW CHAMP CLARK BRIDGE OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY September 13, 2017 | Kyle Boaz, The Louisiana Press-Journal LOUISIANA, Mo. -- It has begun. With the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Champ Clark Bridge taking place on Friday, Sept. 8, the long awaited project is officially underway. The Louisiana riverfront was crowded with representatives from MoDOT, IDOT, Massman Construction, the city and local citizens to celebrate an infrastructure improvement that benefits both states. The ceremony had guest speakers Patrick McKenna (MoDOT director), Randall Blankenhorn (Illinois secretary of transportation), Bart Niedner (Louisiana mayor), Andy Borrowman (Pike County Illinois chairman of the board) and J. Bennett Clark (great-grandson of James Beauchamp Clark). READ MORE > MASSMAN & HNTB SELECTED FOR NEW CHAMP CLARK BRIDGE June 29, 2017 | Marisa Ellison, Missouri Department of Transportation Communications Manager HANNIBAL, Mo. - By Fall 2019, motorists traveling across the Mississippi River on U.S. Route 54 between Illinois and Missouri will enjoy a wider, safer ride. Massman Construction Company, headquartered in Kansas City, was selected today as the best value proposer to design and construct the new Champ Clark Bridge by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission at its meeting in Bowling Green. READ MORE > NEW BROADWAY BRIDGE OPENS TO TRAFFIC AHEAD OF SCHEDULE March 2, 2017 | US News & World Report NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The new Broadway Bridge connecting downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock is now open for traffic. State highway officials say the bridge over the Arkansas River opened to traffic late Wednesday, which was ahead of schedule. The contractor, Massman Construction, was given a 180-day period to finish the span after the old bridge was shut down and eventually demolished. READ MORE > GOETHALS BRIDGE JOB HALFWAY TO COMPLETION January 2, 2017 | Engineering News Record A new crossing between New York and New Jersey is the region's first public-private partnership on a bridge project. Squeezed between two states with different geologies and between above-and-below clearance limits due to marine and air traffic, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge, which spans Staten Island’s Arthur Kill strait, represents the agency’s first use of a public-private partnership on a bridge project. More than halfway finished and scheduled to open in 2018, the crossing is competing with the Kosciuszko Bridge replacement over Newtown Creek in Brooklyn and Queens to become New York City's first major bridge in more 50 years. READ MORE > IN BROADWAY BRIDGE PROJECT, TOWBOATS KEY November 28, 2016 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette The $98.4 million project to replace the Broadway Bridge has, at times, looked less like major construction work and more like a naval operation. That's because boats have played a prominent role in bringing down the old, 93-year-old bridge and floating part of the new bridge into place. It took two vessels to help bring down the steel arch of the old bridge after explosives failed to dislodge it last month. Three vessels were employed to help the first of the new bridge's two arches into place two weeks ago. READ MORE > ARMY CORPS MEGAPROJECTS: BENEFITS OF INNOVATIVE FOUNDATIONS Fall 2016 Deep Foundations In April 2008, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure (now CB&I) was awarded the contract to build the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Lake Borgne Surge, Barrier near New Orleans. The surge barrier was part of·the largest civil works design-build project awarded by the USACE. The surge barrier was designed and constructed as part of the greater Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS). The Inca/Gerwick Joint Venture was the overall Engineer of Record for the project and a subcontractor to Shaw. Ben C. Gerwick (now COWI North America) was the Engineer of Record for the flood wall component of the surge barrier as well as the sector gate monolith foundation. Eustis Engineering was the Geotechnical Engineer of Record for the flood wall surge barrier. READ MORE > PIN OAK EXECUTES DOCK EPC WITH MASSMAN CONSTRUCTION June 22, 2016 | Pin Oak Terminals MT. AIRY, Louisiana - Pin Oak Holdings, LLC is pleased to announce that it has executed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (“EPC”) contract with Massman Construction Co. (“Massman”) to build Pin Oak Terminal’s first dock and related equipment. Massman, a family owned and operated company, brings over 100 years of construction experience to the project and has a strong reputation to build the dock safely and on schedule. Pin Oak chose Massman after a rigorous decision process and is confident that their staff will adhere to the strict safety requirements that govern Pin Oak’s operations. Pin Oak will begin construction of the dock in June with it fully operational by May 2017. READ MORE > SLIGO CONSTRUCTION AHEAD OF SCHEDULE May 6, 2015 | Smithville Review According to officials from Massman Construction, the firm in charge of the construction of the new Sligo Bridge, the structure is expected to be complete by the end of this year. "We anticipate having traffic on the new bridge in August, and expect completion of the project by the end of the year." said T.J. Colombatto, project manager for Massman Construction. READ MORE > STREAMLINING A DESIGN, ENCOURAGING INNOVATION November 2014 | ASCE News In 1991, the Missouri and Illinois departments of transportation began voicing concern about the flow of interstate traffic between downtown St. Louis and St. Clair County, Illinois. Part of the solution was to build a new interstate bridge over the Mississippi River. By 2001 the two departments had determined the ideal location for the new bridge, and they had also invested money and resources securing a record of decision regarding the project from the Federal Highway Administration that would enable them to proceed. The project had already endured its share of starts and stops, and just as it seemed to have cleared many of the hurdles common in today’s large, complex transportation projects, the bridge’s design and construction price tag—$451 million—arrived. READ MORE > OPA WINNER: THE INNER HARBOR NAVIGATION CANAL FLOODWALL Fall 2011 Deep Foundations On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana – Mississippi state line, approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of downtown New Orleans, with 125 mph (205 km/h) winds and a storm surge in excess of 25 ft (7.6 m). Lake Borgne, a shallow brackish body of water east of New Orleans flanked on its north by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) and its south and west by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) and surrounded by low lying marsh, carried the massive storm surge straight to the mouth of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) just 9 miles (14.5 km) east of downtown New Orleans. As a result of the catastrophic flooding that took place, Congress authorized the construction of systems that would bring a 100-year risk reduction level of flood protection to the city of New Orleans. READ MORE > © 2021 Massman Construction Co. All Rights Reserved. LinkedIn Instagram Twitter Facebook