Cooper's River Bridge
| Project Company: | Schiavone Construction Company Secaucus, NJ |
| Problem: | The $17million job for the New Jersey DOT was to replace the Cooper's River Bridge in Red Bank/Middleton, N.J. The job included driving 48" diameter round concrete round piles, 140' long. In order to retain profitability the piles needed to be driven quickly. |
| Solution: | Pile superintendent Eric Reinersten, VP of Equipment, Jim Hammill and Design Engineer Paul Scagnelli, got their heads together to find a way to get the pile template in place in a hurry. They devised a 3-part template which could be set into place very quickly. Two end frames consisting of two 24"x50' pipe pile with a cross beam were fabricated tehy were designed for driving with Schiavone's I.C.E. Model 44-50 vibrator with caisson clamp. Once the two end frames were in place, the pile template for the three 48" concrete piles in each bent were placed on top. |
| Results: | Complete installation of the template took about 40 minutes. It took a little longer to drive the 140' long piles with a large air/stream hammer. |
