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