Blockbuster Breakwater: Alternative Construction Method Put to the Test in Tampa Bay

Breaking ocean wave

The WAD structures represent FDOT’s first use of what has proven to be a faster, better and cheaper method of constructing breakwaters.

August 14, 2023
Scott Judy - Engineering News-Record

On June 7, 2023, Tampa Bay news reporters trekked to the Sunshine Skyway bridge for a Florida Dept. of Transportation press conference that would explain the mystery behind the hundreds of curiously shaped concrete structures lining nearly the entire length of the span’s mile-plus-long south fishing pier access road.

Reprinted courtesy of Scott Judy, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Judy may be contacted at judys@enr.com

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