You’ll believe a building can fly (639 NY Ave. NW)

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Project manager is bragging, but he’s not right about being the largest in DC.

Before today’s concrete Calvert Street bridge between Woodley Park and Adams Morgan, there stood a 1,500 ton cast iron bridge between the two neighborhoods. They wanted to build the concrete bridge in the same location as the iron bridge, but wanted to keep the road open to traffic.

So they moved the iron bridge 80 feet downstream. Intact. With horses. People 80 years ago were smart too.

Washington Post

Some other guy

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Open this link in the right format and you’ll find a dozen photos them moving the bridge. Engineering drawings too.

[PotomacCyclist]

The manager might still be able to get away with saying it’s the largest building to be moved in D.C. He could also say that the two buildings combined are the largest overall structure move. If you add up the two buildings (plus the steel beams), the total weight is slightly heavier than the bridge.

In any case, it’s not something you see every day. They might have completed the move today. Comparing the photo I took with that on Google Maps Street View, the building was already farther over than before, almost up against the other older building.

The building move in June will involve the heavier of the two buildings.

[PotomacCyclist]

Time-lapse video of the building move

[video=vimeo;125509745]https://vimeo.com/125509745[/video]

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