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Big R Innovated Engineered Solutions

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Overview: Big R Bridge specializes in innovative infrastructure solutions, focusing on prefabricated bridges, structural plates, MSE wall systems, and corrugated pipes. Their products are designed for easy shipping and installation, ideal for remote locations.
Key Offerings:
  • Prefabricated Bridges: Designed for quick installation with minimal equipment, reducing costs and time.
  • Signature Bridges: Serve as bold architectural focal points in communities.
  • Pedestrian Bridges: Custom-designed for pedestrian needs, quickly installed using local crews.
  • The Tunable Bridge™: A hybrid structure balancing live and dead loads, offering longer spans and reduced costs.
  • Vehicular Truss and Modular Bridges: Prefabricated solutions for spans up to 240' and 150', respectively, designed for rapid installation.
Benefits:
  • Efficiency: Strong, lightweight, and easy to install, reducing material and installation costs.
  • Customization: Custom-engineered to site requirements, ensuring minimal maintenance and environmental impact.
  • Design-Build Approach: Minimizes project risks and accelerates delivery, offering cost savings and better quality.
Certifications and Environmental Commitment: Certified by AISC for steel bridges and offers LEED-certifiable products, emphasizing sustainability and quality.
Conclusion: With over 40 years of experience, Big R Bridge provides comprehensive infrastructure solutions that save time and money while meeting diverse project needs.
Modular Bridges: Typically 8 feet wide, customizable up to 80 feet in length, ideal for temporary applications, handling loadings from HL-93 to off-highway vehicles, available in spans up to 150 feet.
Structural Plate Solutions: Includes Ultra•Cor®, Super•Cor®, Bolt-a-Plate®, and Dur•A•Span™, designed for low maintenance and aesthetic flexibility, suitable for bridges, culverts, and tunnels.
Ultra•Cor®: Strongest steel structural plate, supports spans exceeding 98 feet, suitable for heavy load applications.
Super•Cor®: Lightweight yet strong, supports spans over 82 feet, widely used internationally.
Bolt-a-Plate®: For less demanding applications, spans from 5 to 40 feet, lightweight and versatile.
Dur•A•Span™: Aluminum structural plate for corrosive environments, design life over 75 years, supports spans over 40 feet.
MSE Wall Systems: Includes precast panel walls and wire walls, offering fast and economical embankment solutions, with the Grid-Strip™ System enhancing design and construction efficiency.
Retaining Walls: Vist-A-Walls™ and Wire Walls designed for economical and efficient installation, suitable for retaining walls, bridge abutments, and erosion control.
Corrugated Steel Pipe (CSP): Versatile for drainage systems, stormwater management, and culvert relines, offering strength, flexibility, and performance.
Steel Sheet Piling: Easy to install, suitable for various soil conditions, used in marine retaining walls, bridge headwalls, and trench shoring.
Structural Bridge Decking: Made from Grade 50 steel, suitable for field-built bridges and bridge resurfacing, ready to accept surface materials like asphalt and concrete.
Steel Cattle Guards: Designed to meet government standards, suitable for highway and off-road use, constructed from strong steel.
Conclusion: Big R Bridge offers cost-effective, adaptable, and environmentally sustainable engineered solutions for infrastructure projects, encouraging consultation with technical sales representatives for tailored solutions.
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Innovative Engineered Solutions Signature Bridges Pedestrian Bridges Vehicular Bridges Structural Plate Bridges Abutments and Retaining Walls Build in value with Big R engineered infrastructure solutions.

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Prefabricated Bridges 4 Signature Bridges 5 Pedestrian Bridges 8 The Tunable Bridge 10 Vehicular Truss Bridges 12 Structural Plate 16 TM MSE Wall Systems 26 Corrugated Steel Pipe 34 Specialty Products 35

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Save time. Save money. Big R Bridge is a world leader in developing innovative engineered solutions in Prefabricated Bridges, Structural Plate, MSE Wall Systems and Corrugated Pipe for the transportation, public works, railway, mining, forestry and development sectors. By design, our custom infrastructure solutions are easy to ship and install with minimal equipment and labor requirements, making them ideal even in remote locations. Big R’s Technical Sales Team and Engineers are well-positioned to ensure your project’s success through every phase. With product innovation, in-house engineering...

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Streamline your next project with a Big R design-build solution. Increasingly, today's infrastructure decision makers are opting for designbuild solutions from highly-qualified partners to minimize project risk and accelerate delivery schedules. Design-build is an integrated approach that delivers design and construction services under one contract with a single point of responsibility. This system is used to minimize the project risks for the owner and tighten the delivery schedule by overlapping the design and construction phases of a project. Design-build projects save time and money. Collaboration...

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Our systematic approach saves you money and assures quality. Big R Bridge supplies prefabricated bridges and custom engineered products across America. Work with an American innovation leader. Big R Bridge is certified by AISC Big R Bridge is a national leader in developing engineered solutions in steel bridges, corrugated metal structures, retaining wall systems and corrugated pipe. We’ve been supplying prefabricated bridges and custom engineered products across America for more than 40 years. We’ve handled more than 10,000 installations to date and create over 300 bridges a year. All of our...

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Prefabricated Bridges Large or small, Big R Bridges are value engineered to save you time and money. Big R Bridge has built a solid 40-year reputation for providing value in innovative steel bridge solutions and professional support throughout the United States. Strong, yet lightweight, Big R Bridges are preengineered and prefabricated to ship and install quickly with local crews and equipment. Whatever your requirements, Big R has the right bridge for you. Signature Bridges make a bold, architectural statement. More than just bridges, Signature Bridges make bold architectural statements as community...

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Talk to a Big R Representative.  1-800-234-0734  bigrbridge.com Outside the box. Inside the budget. Make a lasting impression with a Big R Signature Bridge. Signature Bridges break existing paradigms. They make bold, architectural statements. They become focal points for our communities. Whether you are a municipal leader with a napkin sketch or a town planner with a conceptual drawing, we can help you bring your vision to life with a Big R Signature Bridge. We’ll combine your inspiration and passion with our engineering talent and streamlined processes to create a distinctive and affordable...

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Prefabricated Bridges From a napkin sketch ... to a finished bridge. Whether you are an owner with a napkin sketch or an architect with a conceptual drawing, we can help you bring your vision to life. A testament to style. Volkswagen Plant, Chattanooga, TN Employees at this Volkswagen manufacturing plant arrive at work in style, thanks to a new 640' pedestrian bridge connecting their training facility with the factory. Company officials feel the new bridge stands as a symbolic connector for the community and a testament to Volkswagen’s signature style. More about this project.

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Attractive and functional. Bowles Crossing, Littleton, CO This 154' clear span Tunable Bridge™ was part of a major intersection upgrade to reduce traffic congestion and enhance pedestrian/cyclist safety. A customized paint scheme highlights the arches and safety mesh panels, while sail-like sunscreens accent the approach platforms. More about this project. Reconnecting a community. Cedar River, Charles City, IA When heavy floodwaters destroyed a century old pedestrian bridge in Charles City, Big R Bridge worked with their community design committee to create this elegant, cable-stayed replacement....

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Prefabricated Bridges Pedestrian Bridges Custom bridge solutions for today’s pedestrian and leisure needs. RECOMMENDED FOR Stream Crossings Road and Rail Crossings Truss Options Recreational Trail Bridges Golf Course Bridges With a large variety of designs and truss styles to select from, Big R Pedestrian Bridges have been the top choice for many municipalities, transportation authorities, light rail companies, H-Section golf courses, resorts, private developers, national parks and private industries for many years. Modified Bowstring Pedestrian Bridges can often be installed in hours, using...

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Our custom-designed solutions are anything but pedestrian.

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Prefabricated Bridges The Tunable Bridge™ A revolutionary breakthrough in bridge design. RECOMMENDED FOR Genuine innovation takes us farther. It goes well beyond the boundary. It makes the impossible possible. Stream Crossings Road and Rail Crossings Recreational Trail Bridges The Tunable Bridge™ combines the physics of a tied arch with any standard steel truss system or girder superstructure and features an innovative adjustable “tuning” system to balance the live and dead loads between the arches and trusses. With no fracture critical members, this redundant stress sharing system increases...

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Lightweight, easy-to-install, and very attractive, The Tunable Bridge takes prefabricated steel bridges to a whole new dimension.

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