Louisville Company Wins Sherman Minton Bridge Project

{Kentucky}...Hall Contracting of Kentucky, the Louisville company selected to repair the closed Sherman Minton Bridge, says it can have the work done by early March at a cost of $13.9 million. The firm’s winning bid is well below the $20 million Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear estimated last month it would cost, and its proposed completion date of March 2nd is at least 1 1/2 months less than both governors expected. The reinforcement plan calls for 2.4 million pounds of new steel to be bolted to beams running the length of the bridge beneath the lower roadways, and,  according to federal requirements, the steel must be produced in the United States.