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Bridge Project Earns GDOT Prestigious Award Honor The Georgia Department of Transportation earned a regional award in the 2023 America’s Transportation Awards competition at the Southern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ annual meeting held in Mobile, Ala. Georgia DOT’s winning submission, the “Historic 5th Street Pedestrian Bridge Rehabilitation Project,” won in the Quality of Life/Community Development, Small Project category and competed alongside projects of similar size and scope from the 14-state SASHTO region, which includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia in addition to Georgia. “This recognition highlights GDOT’s continued commitment to collaborating with local stakeholders to deliver projects that are important to them and their communities and demonstrates the value of the Transportation Investment Act program and the funding it provides to make regional projects like this one happen,” Georgia DOT Commissioner Russell R. McMurry said. “The Georgia Department of Transportation is honored to receive this prestigious award.” This $9 million project transformed the outdated 5th Street Bridge over the Savannah River in Augusta into a pedestrian crossing. AASHTO Executive Director Jim Tymon with see BRIDGE page 6
Georgia DOT’s Chief Engineer Meg Pirkle.
Georgia’s “Historic 5th Street Pedestrian Bridge Rehabilitation Project,” won the AASHTO award in the Quality of Life/Community Development, Small Project category and competed alongside projects of similar size and scope from the 14-state SASHTO region.
Grant Helps Academy Buy Heavy Equipment Simulators Students at the Golden Isles College and Career Academy (GICCA) in Brunswick, Ga., will have new opportunities to gain experience in operating heavy construction equipment when four new full-motion simulators are installed. According to the Brunswick News, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) recently awarded GICCA a $417,000 grant to support the school’s new heavy equipment operations pathway. The funds will be used to purchase four Caterpillar Motion Platform Simulators to supplement the two existing desktop simulators the Career Academy installed earlier this year.
Each motion simulator costs $100,000 and features the same controls as the real machines, which will more easily help students in the pathway transition into construction jobs. The controls can be converted to simulate those of a bulldozer and hydraulic excavator. They also mimic realistic movements, vibrations and sounds found on a construction site. GICCA began offering the heavy equipment operations pathway during the 2022-23 school year. As part of the pathway’s training, students also are able to attend field trips to observe heavy equipment in action. Joseph Depenhart, principal of GICCA and director see GRANT page 6