June, 2025 Luncheon
Speaker: John Sloan, PE, & Tim Sherrill, PE
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Topic: The I-26 Green River Bridge Rehabilitation
Presentation: Video
Summary: The I-26 Green River Bridge is the highest Interstate Highway-carrying bridge in North Carlina at 225 feet tall. Built in 1968, the bridge spans the Green River south of Asheville with parallel nonredundant steel tension member 2-girder steel structures with a main unit having spans of 260’-330’-260’. John Sloan, PE, AECOM’s North Carolina Bridge Program Manager, and Tim Sherrill, NCDOT Bridge Preservation & Repair Engineer, will give a presentation on the rehabilitation project that consisted of strengthening and rehabilitation of the bridges that included:
Adding cover plates
Adding stiffeners
Replacing the existing lightweight concrete decks with a new single lightweight concrete deck
Adding shear studs to the girder and stringer top flanges to make them composite
Tying the two bridges together with floor beams to make them a single structure
Widening the deck
The project team has provided a feasibility study, final design, design phase load testing, and construction phase services that include the instrumentation and monitoring of the structure. All steel rehabilitation and strengthening work is complete, two phases of deck pours are complete, and the final phase of the deck replacement work is anticipated to be complete this year.
Bio: John Sloan, PE, has served as the AECOM North Carolina Bridge Program Manager since 2016. He began working for AECOM in 2004 and has completed numerous feasibility, design, inspection, and rehabilitation projects. Outside of the office, he is active in his local church and enjoys spending time with his family while walking on the greenway, reading books, and coaching youth sports.
Tim Sherrill, PE, is a Bridge Preservation & Repair engineer with NCDOT’s Structures Management Unit.