L.B. Foster Supplies Steel Grid Decking for NYC Bridge

Greenpoint Ave Bridge Roadway Replaced with Precast Panels

PITTSBURGH, PA, - January 21, 2010 - L.B. Foster Company (NASDAQ: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA is supplying the City of New York Department of Transportation with 10,000 sq. ft. of steel grid decking to replace the aging roadway of the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek. L.B. Foster will also provide 2,500 sq. ft. of 7 ft. wide decking for the drawbridge’s sidewalks. The decking will be manufactured at L.B. Foster’s Fabricated Bridge Products facility in Bedford, PA and delivered ready to install with concrete precasted into the panels. “The grid decking reinforces the precast concrete to form a composite material that takes advantage of the best properties of both the concrete and steel,” noted Mike Riley, Sales and Marketing Manager of L.B. Foster’s Fabricated Bridge Products group.

 

This City of New York DOT bridge rehabilitation project is being funded with stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Judlau Contracting, Inc. of College Point, NY is the project general contractor. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in June 2010 and complete by August 30, 2010.

 

The Greenpoint Avenue Bridge is a double-leaf trunnion bascule drawbridge that crosses Newtown Creek to link Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Blissville, Queens. The bridge was originally designed by the world-class engineering firm of Hardesty & Hanover and awarded an American Institute of Steel Construction Award in 1991.

 

L.B. Foster Provides Steel Grid Deck for Landmark Maryland Bridge

$8.25 Million Contract Awarded for Hatem Memorial Bridge Replacement Decking

PITTSBURGH, PA, October 15, 2009 – L.B. Foster Company (NASDAQ: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA has been awarded an $8.5 million contract to supply general contractor John B. Fay Company with 380,000 sq. ft. of steel grid decking for use on Maryland’s landmark Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge. The new concrete filled steel deck will replace the original bridge decking of the 70 year old Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) span.

The first shipments of fabricated steel decking were transported from L.B. Foster’s Bedford, PA facility to the US 40 Susquehanna River bridge in the early months of 2009. Approximately 140 truckloads will deliver a total of 1600 unique grid panels by late 2010. The Fay Company and L.B. Foster designed each panel to exacting specifications and uniquely sequenced them to correspond to surrounding deck units. “The L.B. Foster Fab Products team worked closely with Fay to establish the performance criteria required to incorporate real efficiency into this project,” said Mike Riley, Sales and Marketing Manager of Fabricated Bridge Products, L.B. Foster Company.

“Our strategic relationship with the project engineers, contractor and bridge agency allowed each of us to add our unique experience to this project,” noted Tim Pace, General Manager of Fabricated Bridge Products, L.B. Foster Company.