Business View Magazine - September 2015

50 Business View - September 2015 Business View - September 2015 51 logistics logistics 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 de- signers 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 go- ing into and what’s needed there. That’s one of the specialties we have. Everything is custom. The chal- lenge 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,