Salt Lake Tribune · Mar 17, 2018
200 Utah bridges built with same technique used in Florida
Vehicles pass under a bridge at I-215 at 3300 south Friday, March 16, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Utah is the nation's biggest proponents and user of the bridge construction method that was used in the Florida bridge that collapsed this week. Utah Department of Transportation's chief structural engineer Carmen Swanwick said that more than 200 bridges in the state in the last decade have been built using the accelerated bridge construction method, or ABC. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Salt Lake City • More than 200 bridges in Utah were built with the same rapid construction technique used in the Florida bridge that collapsed this week and killed at least six people, officials said Friday.