Kie-Con ushers California Wide-Flange Girder into mainstream specs
By Don Marsh
Bulb-Tee Sunset
Tag: Kie-Con
Kie-Con bests by a foot Caltrans’ recent prestressed girder threshold
Sources: National Precast Concrete Association; Kie-Con Inc., Antioch, Calif.; CP staff
Kie-Con has shipped four of seven prestressed California Wide-Flange girders, which at 159 ft. 5 in. are the longest non-spliced, monolithic precast members delivered by trailer to a Golden State bridge site. The girders are 12 inches longer than similarly configured beams Oldcastle Precast–Perris is fabricating for the Santa Ana Freeway South Corridor in southern California.
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