Reliance’s Principal, Sena Kumarasena, is serving as the Steel Bridge Engineering Specialist on the General Consultant Team to the Mumbai Metropolitan Development Authority for the MTHL. The project consists of a 21.8-km (13.5-mile) long dual-carriageway crossing of...
The Zakim Bridge is part of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project and carries 10-lanes of traffic over the Charles River in Boston, MA. The bridge is unique among cable-stayed structures in several aspects. Its cable arrangement, slender inverted Y towers, and a two-lane...
Chesterfield bridge is a 425-ft long, two-lane steel through a tied arch-truss bridge over the Connecticut River in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. It is located between Brattleboro, Vermont, and Chesterfield. The bridge carries the Franklin Pierce Highway, New Hampshire...
M6 Grand Rapids consists of 187-ft long S02 and 223-ft long S03 simple span bridges with twin box girder bridge superstructures. These bridges required the replacement of the existing superstructure which had plate girders as steel erection issues were experienced by...
Signature Cable-Stayed Bridge UnitGoethals Bridge is a 1,800-ft long cable-stayed unit with a 900-ft main span. The 176-ft wide roadway accommodates 3-vehicular traffic lanes in each direction, mass transit corridor, a separate bikeway, and generous shoulders. The...
Arthur DiTomasso is a 300-ft main span cable-stayed bridge in the city of Fitchburg, MA. It crosses both the Nashua River and the Boston and Maine Railroad tracks. It has a deck width of 45 feet and serves 2 lanes of traffic. Sena Kumarasena, Ph.D., PE served as the...
The Bayonne Bridge improvement required upgrading the roadway of this 1,600-ft span historic trussed arch bridge. Sena Kumarasena, Ph.D., PE served as the Task Manager for the upgrading of the roadway. The work included the design of a redundancy girder system and...
Anji Khad is a 313m long arch bridge over River Anji Khad. This bridge carrying two railway tracks is part of a larger railroad extension project. The special challenges of this remote site include material transportation, construction staging, and facilities for...
The CSX bridge is a through truss lift bridge over Mobile River located in Baldwin County, Alabama. The project involved replacement of an existing swing bridge with a 325-ft span for a new vertical lift bridge and also improving the navigational clearance to 65 ft...
Storrow Drive is an award-winning single-cell box girder. The unique bridge, including a 380-ft main span and 225-ft back spans carrying a Storrow Drive bridge is an award-winning, signature, single-cell steel box girder bridge carrying 4-lanes of traffic over the...
Reliance, as part of a previous GEC assignment for the City of Boston Department of Public Works (DPW), developed the accelerated bridge replacement methodology as a part of a long-term sustainability study for this aging, 3,500-ft long critical link from the mainland...
Chelsea Street Bridge is a 450-ft span 225-ft tall Vertical Lift Bridge. The bridge replaced the previous structurally deficient, functionally obsolete, through truss drawbridge at this location which accommodated only a 95-ft channel clearance which was barely...