Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
Frank's Internet Home Page
Blog: 2005
Archives of unbuilding sections
Blog: 2006
The story of building the Ravenel Bridge
Visit our
Adventures in Singapore
Click to view all web page segments
I enjoy hearing from you. If you have comments and suggestions, write me.


Unbuilding Highlights
(Apr 10)
Meeting St. Stories
(Jul 10 2006)
East Bay Stories
(Oct 10 2006)
Drum Island Stories
(Feb 17)
Pearman Bridge Stories
(Apr 3)
Grace Bridge Stories
(Apr 3)
Imposions: Prep and boom
(Mar 27)
Unbuilding Bridge Blog
(July 23 2006)
Unbuilding Challenges
(Mar 13)
Learning Links
(Feb 20)
Unbuilding Stories
(Mar 13)
Video and Sounds
(Feb 28)

December 14, 2005:
Early morning Grace roadway transplantation

Joe Duffy has been filling me in on the history of the jack-up barge. Here you can see the hammer picking away on the nearer corner of M-8 Pearman support. To the right, you can see the roots of M-7 and M-6 from work last week and earlier this week.

And also, his calculator has been working overtime. When the roadway is removed, each section is 4' x 10'. Joe has done some back-of-the-envelop calculations and come to the conclusion that if you placed, end to end, all the 4 x 10' segments of harvested roadway - then the 4' sidewalk would extend to I-95!

Here is Pio contributing to this calculation, and moving several segments to the base of the Grace Bridge - with the morning sun in our eyes.

Its difficult to take a photo without catching some or all of the rear view mirror. Here is self image with camera in the mirror

and if I move just a little bit, you can catch Pio with a small small smile as we make our way down the Grace ramp

where the segments are deposited in the to-be-reef depot

then Pio backs up with Cousin Arthur watching

and another view of the back-up exercise from the Pearman

Click to view all unbuilding web page segments

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Attribution: C. Frank Starmer and Sparky Witte from http://oldcooperriverbridge.org