
On Thursday, the three-member oversight panel supervising the Bay Bridge construction project voted to punish the chief contractor, American Bridge/Fluor, by withholding $8 million in payments and fining the contractor another $3 million.
by William Bigelow25 Sep 2015, 1:21 PM PST0

The bad news for the San Francisco Bay Bridge tower just got worse: cracks have been discovered on some of the rods that are part of the tower foundation, according to Caltrans. Caltrans also admitted that one of the four tower anchor rods broke after water exposure made it brittle.
by William Bigelow24 Jun 2015, 2:21 PM PST0

Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty admitted on Thursday that the sleeves of 120 of the 400 “high-strength” rods anchoring the tower of the new Bay Bridge to its foundation are immersed in salt water that could corrode them.
by William Bigelow5 Jun 2015, 11:47 AM PST0

A steel rod supporting the 525-foot tower atop the eastern span of the Bay Bridge has failed an integrity test, prompting fears that corrosion caused its failure and thus other rods may fail for the same reason, leaving the tower at risk from an earthquake.
by William Bigelow9 May 2015, 4:30 AM PST0