• August 10, 2009

American Bridge/McLean Joint Venture has been selected to receive the “Star Safety Excellence Award, Recognition of Outstanding Safety Performance” from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command for the Pier 11 Replacement project in Norfolk, VA.

This award is given only to those companies that have demonstrated a corporate proactive safety posture. American Bridge/McLean Joint Venture has worked over 255,478 man hours on this $102M contract and had zero DART incidents, no safety non-compliance notices or stop work orders and no OSHA findings.

American Bridge has been a leading builder of complex structures since its founding in 1900. The company’s current projects include construction of the environmentally-sensitive Chincoteague Bridge; the deck replacement on the Chesapeake Bay Suspension Bridge; construction of two new bridges across Kentucky Lake; and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Self Anchored Suspension Bridge in California.