Accelerated Bridge Construction picks up speed with lower costs, safer job sites

The use of Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) is growing, with prefabricated elements and systems reducing or eliminating the onsite construction time needed to build a similar structure using conventional methods.

ABC relies on innovative planning, design, materials and construction methods to reduce both onsite bridge construction and reconstruction time. That’s important to highway contractors who face intense pressure to avoid prolonged closures, for which the public has little tolerance.

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