SAME Anchorage Post December Meeting

The Pretty Rocks Landslide (mile 45.4) has been slowly displacing a portion of the Denali Park Road near Polychrome for decades but when the movement suddenly intensified in late summer 2021—from inches per day to inches per hour—safe passage through the area became impossible, forcing the immediate closure of the road and cutting off vehicle access to popular visitor destinations and facilities including Polychrome Overlook, Toklat, Eielson Visitor Center, and Wonder Lake.

The Polychrome Area Improvements project consists of a 475-foot single-span steel truss bridge crossing an active landslide within Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Once completed, the project will restore access to the remaining 47 of 92 miles of park road. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the scope of planned repairs, opportunities and challenges associated with design, contracting methods, and construction; and the way ahead on completion timeline.

About our speakers:

Speaker: Patrick Murphy, Project Manager, Granite Constuction Inc.

Speaker: Justin Sieg, Project Dikrector, KWH Constructors, LTD.

Info: Arrive at BP Energy Center, get lunch (if ordered), network with colleagues.

Info: Presentation on the Polychrome Bridge Project

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Host or Publisher Society of American Military Engineers, Anchorage Post