Design and Construction of the East Huntington Bridge

The East Huntington Bridge (Fig. 1) over the Ohio River in West Virginia is the second, long span, precast prest essed concrete cable stayed bridge completed in North America. The project is an extension of the successful features incorporated in our firm's first cable stayed bridge built over the Columbia River at Pasco-Kennewick. E•4 This paper will describe the new design elements of the East Huntington Bridge and discuss some of the key features involved in the design and construction of cable stayed bridges. In order to promote engineering development, the United States government requires two different competing designs for all major bridges. When an alternate concrete design was authorized tor the East Huntington Bridge, a steel girder system had already been completed. Also, the main river piers for the designed steel system had already been built. In competitive construction contract bidding for both designs, steel and concrete, the concrete alternate received a $1.0,000,000 lower bid ($23,500,000 ver-