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Markets / Bridges & Highways

Bridges & Highways

Bridge steel erection, rehabilitation, heat straightening and emergency repair for state DOTs, turnpike and toll authorities, and the primes that build for them — across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

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Built for Owner-Let Work

HSE supports bridge and highway projects involving steel erection, bridge steel rehabilitation, heat straightening, emergency steel repair, girder repair or replacement, MOT-sensitive work, constrained access, and heavy rigging. Our crews arrive prequalified — bid through the prime, or with HSE as prime — with the certifications the owner asks for and the engineering to plan every pick before the first crane is set.

  • AISC Certified Erector with Bridge Endorsement
  • Licensed Professional Engineers on staff for erection engineering and lift plans
  • Experienced ironworkers, foremen and superintendents
  • Self-performing in PA, NY, DE, MD, VA and DC
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Owners we serveState DOTsTurnpike, Toll & Bridge AuthoritiesRail & TransitFederal & MilitaryAirport Landside

State DOT & Interstate Bridges

Girder erection over live traffic on the Capital Beltway, I-95 and the region’s busiest interchanges — flyovers, river crossings and phased replacements where the structure has to carry traffic while it is being rebuilt. VDOT, MDOT SHA, DelDOT and NYSDOT work, bid through the prime.

  • Interchanges, flyovers and river crossings
  • MOT-sensitive sequencing with night and weekend closures
  • Curved, skewed and staged girder erection
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Turnpike, Toll & Bridge Authorities

Authority-let bridge rehabilitation and replacement, where lane rental, night windows and traffic revenue shape the erection plan more than the steel does. HSE plans the lifts to the authority’s closure calendar.

  • Girder replacement inside night and weekend closure windows
  • Bridge steel rehabilitation and strengthening
  • Lift plans and MOT sequencing submitted by in-house PEs
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Bridge Steel Rehabilitation & Emergency Repair

When a girder is struck, HSE responds: heat straightening, section repair and member replacement that put the bridge back in service without a full replacement — including red-flag emergency repairs for NYSDOT.

  • Emergency response to impact-damaged girders
  • Heat straightening as an alternative to member replacement
  • Girder repair, section replacement and strengthening
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Rail, Transit & Other Public Owners

The same bridge steel, procured a different way. HSE has erected structural steel for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail extension around live roadways, and brings the same prequalified crews to rail, transit, federal and airport-landside bridge work as those owners let it.

  • Aerial guideways and transit structures
  • Erection windows coordinated with rail and roadway operations
  • Prequalified for owner-specific certification and security requirements
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Rigging, Heavy Lifts & Site Logistics

Lift planning by our own engineers and crane coordination on every pick — constrained-access and multi-crane picks, laydown and delivery timing planned and executed by one team.

  • Specialty lift planning by in-house engineers
  • Constrained-access and multi-crane picks
  • Site logistics, laydown and delivery timing
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What Comes With the Crew

The certifications a DOT, authority or prime asks for at prequalification, held in house.

AISC Certified Erector

With Bridge Endorsement — the combination most state DOTs and bridge primes require.

Licensed Professional Engineers

In-house erection engineering, rigging design and lift planning. PE licensure in ten states.

Crane Coordination

Crane selection, positioning and lift execution coordinated by HSE on every pick.

Part of the High Family

Fabrication at High Steel Structures and heavy haul at High Transit sit behind our crews under one family.

Can We Help?

Have a bridge or highway project that requires steel erection, staged construction, heavy rigging or emergency repair?

Send the plans or piece schedule with the let or bid date, location and any staging or MOT constraints — a link to your plan room or ITB works.