Accelerated Bridge Construction at Green Brook

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Urbantech, as part of the SUR Joint Venture, the prime design consultant for the US Army Corps of Engineer’s Green Brook Flood Risk Management Project Sub-basin of the Raritan River Segment C-1 in Middlesex NJ, provided structural design and planning services for the construction of a secondary culvert under the NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line, a main rail branch for New Jersey commuters into New York City.

The purpose of the project was to construct a 2-span concrete bridge culvert with 10ft x 21.5ft openings under the NJ Transit lines to provide additional capacity to an existing adjacent culvert in this flood plain. In order to minimize the impact to commuters as required by NJ Transit, Urbantech proposed an Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) approach consisting of fabricating the bridge adjacent to the rail embankment and roll in into place using Self-Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMT) during a one weekend rail shutdown.

The project included not only the structural design for final and construction conditions but also very intense coordination with all stakeholders including NJ Transit, US Army Corps of Engineers, NJ DEP, NJHPO, utility line providers, and land owners. The elements of structural design included the concrete bridge culvert and four adjacent concrete wingwalls as well as the development of a detailed and accurate construction schedule to evaluate the feasibility of moving the bridge during the 52-hour window out of which 10 hours are allotted for NJ Transit to remove and reinstall rails and ballast and only 42 hours are allotted to the contractor.

The moving started at 9PM on Friday May 21st 2021. The contractor successfully finalized the culvert and backfill installation ahead of schedule by 4PM on Sunday May 23rd. The NJTransit finalized the reinstallation of the rails on time for the commuter trains to run on the early morning of Monday.

Top 10 Bridge Tech Consulting Service Companies

Construction Tech Review magazine has selected UrbanTech as one of the top 10 bridge tech consulting service companies.

Construction Tech Review is a one of a kind knowledge platform that brings to its audience insider information from the construction industry.

https://bridge-tech.constructiontechreview.com/vendor/urbantech-consulting-engineering-boutique-consultancy-for-mega-builders-cid-339-mid-34.html

Albert Einstein Award for Innovation

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The Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce has elected Dr. Wei Wang for Albert Einstein Award for Innovation as one of the 7th annual new jersey immigrant entrepreneur awards winners.

The Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce has attracted the attention of top government and business leaders in the state as one of the premier business support groups in New Jersey. For over a hundred years, the Chamber has helped drive economic growth in and around the region, while continually providing an inclusive business community.

https://www.mcrcc.org/wei-wang/

Kosciuszko Bridge

Kosciuszko Bridge

On July 25, 2017, main span of the iconic Kosciuszko Bridge was lowered onto a twin barge system, ready for its final journey to a scrap yard in New Jersey. The main span will be dismantled and recycled in a facility in NJ. 

 

Eight 500-t strand jacks worked in sync, lowered the 2400-ton main span of the 80 years old Kosciuszko Bridge in nine long hours. The entire operation was completed smoothly without a single glitch. Team of ironworkers from Queens and Brooklyn worked together with the management and engineering team of Skanska Kiewit and Ecco III, JV (SKE) for the past eight months in preparation for this moment. UrbanTech is proud to be a member of the team, acting as the design engineer of record for the lowering system used for this operation. 

 

Inner City 100 2016 Winners

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and FORTUNE has selected UrbanTech Consulting Engineering, PC as one of the 100 fastest-growing inner city companies in 2016. UrbanTech was ranked 54th on the FORTUNE Inner City 100 List. The Inner City 100 program selects businesses in underprivileged urban areas that offer “access to national visibility, executive education, and networking opportunities”. ICIC considers a company’s annual revenues and high-growth rates from the last five years.

Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter, ICIC is a non-profit national organization that stimulates economic growth by providing businesses, governments and investors with information on urban market opportunities.

UrbanTech would like to thank its clients, colleagues and friends for making this possible. Without your support, UrbanTech would not be where it is today.
We are incredibly humbled and hope to meet the expectations bestowed upon on us with this recognition. We hope to continue breaking ground in the infrastructure world and push UrbanTech into the forefront of civil engineering.