Watch a year of construction in less than 2 ½ minutes

From ODOT-

I’m excited about this amazing time-lapse video posted by one of our lead contractors, Slayden Construction. It shows construction work on the Willamette River Bridge project throughout 2011 in just under 2 ½ minutes.



From cameras looking down over the project, you see crews speedily building and paving the new southbound bridge as cars fly by on the temporary detour bridge.



After traffic switches to the new southbound bridge, you see cranes eating away at the temporary bridge, from the top of the deck down to the piers, one by one.



Finally, you see construction of a reinforcing wall to anchor the new northbound bridge to the bank at the south end of the project. One end of the box beams will rest on this abutment and the other end on the first pier.



The video then brings us up to where we are today with the project.



Thank you to JDP Media of Stayton for producing this video, and to Slayden Construction for commissioning it.