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High Steel winding down $120M girder contract for New NY Bridge
Last two 'superload' girders for $3.7B project shipped today from High's Williamsport plant
The East Lampeter Township-based company on Tuesday shipped the last two “superload” steel girders, each about 90 tons and 120 feet in length, from the company’s Williamsport plant to an assembly yard in New York.
Superloads are especially long, heavy or wide truck loads that require police escort on the highways.
The large girders are to support the approach spans of the $3.7 billion New NY Bridge, which will replace the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2018. The bridge replacement project is the largest transportation design-build project in the history of the U.S.
High Steel, part of High Industries Inc., first began shipping girders for the bridge project in 2014. High’s contract is worth more than $120 million, officials said.
The company produced about 20,000 tons of steel for the bridge at its Lancaster County plant, with the other 30,000 coming from its Williamsport plant. The latter plant was expanded by 30,000 square feet and High Steel added about 200 positions since beginning fabrication for the project.
High Steel will ship 34 non-superload girders later this year, with the final pieces for the bridge to be delivered in spring 2018, officials said. Fabrication is largely complete on those remaining girders.
The company bid on the New NY Bridge project in mid-2012.
