Project Title and Description
Bridge Management in Philadelphia in collaboration with the City and Consultants from Pennoni, PB, AECOM, and others
The City of Philadelphia owns about 150 bridges. Each of these is assigned a condition rating (0-9) and a sufficiency rating (0-100%). In this project, a group of civil and environmental engineers with structural, geotechnical and transportation majors will study the inventory and take a sample of 12 bridges. These will be inspected – accompanied by an expert bridge inspector from industry – and actual conditions as opposed to current inventory condition and sufficiency rating numbers will be established. Experience shows major errors in the inventory rating due to organizational and human errors during planning and/or execution. Following the testing of inventory errors, students will choose one bridge that ranks low and evaluate options of rehabilitation or renewal. They will then design rehab or renewal of the bridge recognizing the operational and construction constraints.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Emin Aktan
Please contact the faculty advisor at aaktan@drexel.edu
Team Make-up by Discipline
Civil and Architectural Engineers (structural, geotechnical and transportation). Not approved for Environmental Engineering students.