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Oct 12, 2017

Located just west of Downtown Sacramento is a bridge with a long history and a coat of bright yellow paint. The Tower Bridge is a central span lift bridge that carries around 12,000 cars daily. It started its life as part of U.S....

Oct 25, 2016

With the 2016 NFL season in full swing, we’re all rooting for our team to get the first down. The ability to take possession of the ball is crucial to scoring a touchdown and having a chance at winning the game. This year, after...

Feb 11, 2016

In my last blog, I discussed the side trip I recently took to Sacramento, California’s Tower Bridge. I wrote up a report on my visual inspection of the bridge's FRP cantilever sidewalk. This drew a number of questions from people...

Feb 4, 2016

I recently traveled to Northern California, and I had a very busy week. Between the sales calls and some project work, I took some time to visit and inspect Sacramento's Tower Bridge, a bridge I refer to quite often in my...

Dec 16, 2015

The wrong choice of apparel can land a celebrity on any number of "worst dressed" lists. When a bridge earns a place on uglybridges.com (yes, that's a real site), the reason has more to do with its condition than outward...

Nov 24, 2015

Concrete sidewalks have a long and storied history. According to researchers, they can be traced to ancient Rome, where lime and volcanic rock were first mixed to make mortar. Concrete is still the go-to material, but its...

Aug 31, 2015

Car-to-car communication, 3-D printing, social robots and “sense and avoid” drones all sound a bit like science fiction. The media is calling these 2015 headliners “disruptive” technologies or innovations. These terms, however,...