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Veteran's Park Memorial Bridge

Veteran's Park Memorial Bridge

We love a happy ending! A former test bridge graduated from the lab--and now it has a permanent home in upstate New York.

The University at Buffalo custom-built a 40-ft steel bridge outfitted with buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) and found that the bridge remained undamaged through testing--which included more than 100 simulated earthquakes!

Rather than scrap or store the bridge after testing ended, the university donated it to the town of Kent, which needed a replacement crossing after storms in 2023 washed out two culvert pipes, the sixth such occurrence in 40 years.

Read more about the structure, newly coined the Veteran’s Park Memorial Bridge, at aisc.org/kent-bridge. Assemble this resilient crossing for yourself with our puzzle of the week!