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US 27 over Pitman Creek
Location	Somerset
State	KY
Completion Date	1993
Contact Person	Steve Goodpaster P.E. Director, Division of Bridge Design Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Phone: (502) 564-4560 Email: Steve.Goodpaster@mail.state.ky.us
Description	The 700-foot bridge carrying US 27 over Pitman Creek in southern Kentucky is heavily used by vehicle and truck traffic and provides a major north-south road for the area. When the bridge deck needed to be replaced, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet opted to do the work at night, keeping two lanes open during the day and one lane open at night. Using proprietary full-depth deck panels allowed modular construction, greatly minimizing traffic impacts as well as providing some weight savings by lightening the dead load on the truss. Project work was performed at night, with traffic routed to one lane at 6:00 pm and opened back to two lanes at 6:00 am. The slab between floor beams (25 feet) was removed and replaced with the full-depth deck panels. Using high-early-strength concrete allowed the joints between deck panels to be poured and opened to traffic next morning.
Prefabricated Elements	Decks
Other Keywords	Full-depth deck panels, New Jersey barrier railing,full-depth deck panels
Advantages	Minimized traffic disruption.

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