Project Spotlight: Award-winning Iowa bridge uses new UHPC pi-girders

Abstract

The Jakway Park Bridge in Buchanan County, Iowa, is the first North American highway bridge built with a new generation of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) pi-girders, the first highway bridge to incor- porate batching of UHPC in a ready-mix truck, and the third in North America and second in Iowa built with UHPC girders. Lafarge North America’s UHPC, Ductal, was used for this project.