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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
NORTH CAROLINA SECTION
EASTERN BRANCH
LUNCHEON
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NOTICE: This meeting is offered in-person and virtually. See below for details.
In-person registration closes at midnight on Monday, June 23, 2025. Virtual registration is open until the day of the event.
Speaker: John Sloan, PE, & Tim Sherrill, PE
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Topic: The I-26 Green River Bridge Rehabilitation
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
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.
Location: This luncheon will be held at the beautiful NC State University Club at 4200 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606. You can contact the NC University Club at (919) 828-0308 if you need assistance locating their establishment.
We are also offering a virtual-only option. Instructions and a link to the virtual meeting (via Zoom) will been sent to the registered participants. If you do not receive the login information, please contact us. You will have the option to install software for a better viewing experience, but the video will otherwise play in a standard web browser. You will not need to create an account.
Fees:
$25 for ASCE Members
$30 for Non-ASCE Members and Guests
$10 for ASCE Life Members and Unemployed ASCE Members.
$10 for Virtual Only
Free for Students
Credit cards are accepted for pre-registration but not at the door. There is a Venmo payment option for pre-registration. If you are paying at the door, please bring cash or a check made out to "ASCE NC Eastern Branch".
RSVP: Our online system handles all registrations and payments. You can register and pay for the event online using your credit card. Even if you don't want to pay online, please use the online system to register. There are no additional fees, accounts, or passwords to remember. The online system will also allow you to specify if you prefer a vegetarian meal. Upon arrival at the event, just check-in at the registration table using your name.
We understand your schedule may change and you might not be able to make it to the event. Cancellations with refunds can be honored up until four days prior to the event by sending an email. If you are neither able to attend nor cancel in time, you may send a replacement.
PDH: To help Professional Engineers in attendance acquire 15 Professional Development Hour (PDH) units per license renewal period in accordance with 21 NCAC 56.1703, a one hour PDH certificate will be emailed to registered participants after the presentation.