I Lift NY Makes First Girder Placement

Wednesday the first girder assembly was hoisted and placed on piers for the New NY Bridge, a seven-hour process.

The 1,110-ton, 400-foot girder assembly – three beams that were assembled at the Port of Coeymans – was hoisted onto the new bridge’s 14-foot-thick foundation.

Dave Capobianco, a New NY Bridge project manager, said the communications conduits and wiring are not on this initial steel girder and will be on the next two-girder segment still being worked on at the Port of Coeymans.

During the summer, barges continue loading girders from the port, unloading them at the project site and either coming to or going from both locations.