Some people of good time is to be in the sky on a plane or a helicopter. Editors also like heights, but with something more firm under their feet, such as a bridge cable.
Attachment of Aileen Cho infrastructure and CAP Scott Blair have walked through several more magnificent bridges in the world. But accessing the highest levels of the George Washington bridge, with its 604 feet tall towers, is a special experience. Designed by the famous engineer Othmar Amman, it has been open since 1931.
The New York Port Authority and the restoration and rehabilitation project of New Jersey cables for the iconic field between the two states is a unique opportunity in generation for both to know their structure deeply.
His visit produced a video entitled Restoration of the George, with conversations on the bridge with crew leaders and Port Authority officials, supervising the work that Cho and Blair have been following for some time. But walking on cables and upper parts of the bridge towers is something else.
To ascend the bridge by elevator and being at the top was fine, reports Cho. But “walking on wooden stairs along the cable and, finally, losing access to the handrails was scary,” he recalls. The descent was worse: “to go down again on those stairs without the railway to be offered was petrifying.” Cho conquered his fears “searching the steepest parts of the ass,” he said, adding that an officer of the Port Authority on that day “was also very nervous for heights.”
Cho and Blair were able to look inside the house of the Anchorage Bridge where all the cable ropes converge. The size of the container in the western tower that stores the 60-X-90-feet American flag, the largest in the world, hangs on the holidays and the birthday of 9/11, was another surprise.
Blair, who recorded work activities, says he did not experience a high -level bridge interviews and interviews. “I found being in the towers and walking around the wires to be exciting,” he says. “It was the first time I raised the main cables of a bridge.” But at a more practical level, Blair says that the strong wind “interfered with the audio of the microphone.” Drew Lockwood, a specialized video publisher for Enr and BNP Media, then used his experience to improve audio and minimize noise.
The areas visited by Cho and Blair are not open to the public, nor are they exposed cables, except for a project like this when they are checked and treated and established in the fitting fit. “It will be the last time we will see these cables for the next 100 years,” says Blair. Check the video at Enr.com/videos.
