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WV Bridge Recoating Project Seeks Bids

Wednesday, January 29, 2020


The West Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking contractors to clean and coat the Tyler City Bridge in Charleston, West Virginia.

Bids are due March 10.

Scope of Work

The West Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking contractors to perform rehabilitation of the Tyler City Bridge including concrete repair on bridge deck parapets, reinforcing steel repair, repair of bearing areas and backwalls, and coating of structural steel members.

West Virginia Department of Transportation

The West Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking contractors to clean and coat the Tyler City Bridge in Charleston, West Virginia.

The project stipulates the cleaning and coating of bridge members. Bridge surfaces will require three phases of cleaning including a dry pre-wash cleaning, a two-phase water cleaning and a final low-pressure water cleaning.

Structural steel members will then require abrasive blast-cleaning to Near White standards (SSPC-SP 10), Brush-Off Blast-Cleaning standards (SSPC-SP 7), or to a Commercial finish (SSPC-SP 6/SSPC Vis 1). Steel members will then be coated with the standard three-coat epoxy-mastic paint system. A prime coat will be applied to all surfaces of existing steel and unpainted surfaces of new steel. An intermediate coat will be applied to all steel surfaces except for galvanized surfaces and will require a tinting of black paste. The top coat will receive an epoxy mastic aluminum coating.

Exposed surfaces of bridge parapets, wingwalls, headwalls and vertical edge of the bridge deck will be given a Class 2 rubbed finish, or a Class 1 ordinary surface finish supplemented with wood float rubbing.

Certification to SSPC-QP 1 and QP 2 are required.

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