Timelapse Video Shows 3 Year Long Bridge Demolition

December 3, 2015 Shane Hedmond

Port Mann Bridge, British Columbia.  Photo by waferboard, CC BY 2.0 — Port Mann Bridge, British Columbia. Photo by waferboard, CC BY 2.0

The original Port Mann Bridge stood tall in British Columbia for nearly 50 years before officials decided to replace it with a wider bridge of the same name. Built in 1964, was four lanes wide and, at the time it was built was the most expensive stretch of road in Canada. The new bridge it was replaced by spans 10 lanes wide and held the title of the widest bridge in the world until the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was completed in 2013.

Freeway Overpass Removed and Replaced in 43 Hours

November 23, 2015 William Lucus

As we have highlighted before on Construction Junkie, China has shown us what a model for efficiency is when it comes to large infrastructure projects. That being said, they seem to be creating a lot of one-off, gargantuan pieces of equipment to do so. In the video below, we see the Sanyuan Bridge in Beijing get entirely removed and replaced with a new bridge in 43 hours.

This Timelapse Video of a 10 Hour Highway Overpass Demolition is Poetry in Motion

September 1, 2015 Shane Hedmond

There’s no better way to make hundreds of thousands of people angry than top shut down a highly traveled road on a work day. Because of that, the pressure is on for many companies to demolish overpasses in less than a day and open the road back up in time for morning traffic.