BigRBRidge

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vehicle and pedestrian bridges, buried bridges made

out of corrugated metal sheets, MSE (Mechanically

Stabilized Earth) retaining walls, and corrugated metal

pipe and roll form products, which it has been manu-

facturing since its earliest days.

Klein describes the process accelerated bridge con-

struction in that allows its customers to erect a bridge

structure, sometimes in as little as a few days: “We

ship bridge components, hardware packages, and

drawings and we have always have either a salesman

or project manager at the site, if there’s any questions,

but most of the time the contractors that install our

products are experienced erectors; they know how to

read drawings. A bridge can come in pieces with a set

of drawings or they’ll come in sections for them to put

together. So, for a pedestrian bridge that’s one hun-

dred and twenty feet, a contractor will bolt together

three sections on the ground and then pick it up with a

crane and set it right in place.”

Because every installation is unique, Big R Bridge’s

designers and engineers are constantly working on

new concepts and specifications. “No bridge that we

make is identical to the next,” explains Klein. “Every

product we produce is custom – to the finishes, the

span, the look, the height – it’s really tailored to the

site it’s going into and what’s needed there. That’s one

of the specialties we have. Everything is custom. The

challenge for us is to standardize our processes so

we can be as efficient as possible, knowing that every

product we make is going to be different.”

When asked what differentiates his company from its

competitors, Klein states three main reasons: “Prob-

ably the most important – we have a full engineering

team so we can do the preliminary concept and the

architectural design; the full preliminary design of the

bridge. So if you come in with a sketch on a napkin we

can come up with some very cost-effective options that

will meet your budget. We have in-house engineering,