Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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November 15, 2006: Unbuilding the last truss sections

Even with the rain, Sparky manages to provide a quick progress report. Here, Chris, Manny and our Ironworker acrobats are unbuilding the last of the truss sections - now supported by the braces installed over the past month.

Ken Canty gave me some insights into the supporting structures. According to Ken, the original drawings for the Pearman called for two supports while building the truss sections at the port. Clearly during the building phase, the base of the trusses had to support some heavy equipment. Without the heavy equipment the load will be less, but in this case, engineering judgement called for build two supports for unbuilding similar to those used during the building 50 years ago.

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