Lancaster’s in-house designers, with strong engineering support from Whitney, Bailey, Cox and Magnani, Baltimore, MD provided the technical drawings and design calculations. Lancaster production superintendents and QC technicians supervised the piling fabrication to assure final performance of the piling delivered to the project site. The project consists of self-supporting fender walls that sweep in and out of the draw bridge bascule under the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge. The three and five pile support clusters will be spaced eight feet on center and are connected with ten horizontal wales that run the length of the fender walls. Recycled plastic lumber wales are spaced twenty inches on center and act as the fender element. All is tied together with stainless steel cable and fittings.

The piles were fabricated locally by Boh Brothers, New Orleans at a rate of 50 piles per day. Lancaster’s QC personnel were on site at all times during fabrication of the piles.

The project was competitively bid as a package, with the US Army Corps of Engineers acting as owner and the technical review team. The materials and design were both provided by Lancaster and the Army Corps handled the procurement. The Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission was responsible for the construction of the fender approach walls.