Figure 1 - Dawn White, ASBI Director of Marketing during Seminar Registration Figure 2 - Seminar Audience Figure 3 - Seminar Luncheon

An ASBI seminar on construction practices for Concrete Segmental and Cable-Supported Bridges held in Sacramento, CA July 28-29 was attended by 131 engineers and construction personnel. The seminar, based on the "Second Edition of the ASBI Construction Practices Handbook", was co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Figures 1, 2, and 3 are representative of the seminar. Seminar presentations were made by the following:

Introduction
M. Myint Lwin, Office of Bridge Technology, Federal Highway Administration

Overview of Segmental Construction
Cliff Freyermuth, American Segmental Bridge Institute

Construction of Precast Segmental Span-by-Span Bridges
R. Kent Montgomery, FIGG

Construction of Precast Balanced Cantilever Bridges
Ben Soule, International Bridge Technologies, Inc.

Construction of Cast-in-Place Balanced Cantilever Bridges
Ralph Salamie, Kiewit Pacific Co.

Construction of Concrete Cable-Supported Bridges
David Goodyear, T.Y. Lin International

Construction of Incrementally Launched Bridges
Marco Rosignoli, HNTB Corporation

Production of Precast Segments
Pat Malone, PCL Construction Services, Inc. and Hunter Collins, PCL Construction Services, Inc.

Equipment for Handling, Transport-ing and Erecting Precast Segmental Bridges
Elie Homsi, Flatiron Constructors, Inc.

Post-Tensioning Details and Procedures
Guido Schwager, Schwager Davis, Inc.

Grouting On-Site Video
Brett Pielstick, Eisman and Russo, Inc.


Segmental Substructures
R. Kent Montgomery, FIGG

Lessons Learned
Ralph Salamie, Kiewit Pacific Co.

Construction Engineering
Zach Godsel, McNary Bergeron & Associates

Construction Engineering Inspection
Brett Pielstick, Eisman and Russo, Inc.

Project Construction Report Otay River Bridge, CA
Ben Soule, International Bridge Technologies, Inc.

Project Construction Report Folsom Bridge, Folsom, CA
Jeff Thomure and Alex Harrison, CH2M Hill

The seminar was concluded with a tour of the Folsom Bridge, Folsom, CA (see related report newsletter item).