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Chippewa River Trail under Farwell

The City of Eau Claire has made a sincere, successful effort to improve the appearance of the City’s downtown, which boasts picturesque rivers. The City retained Ayres for preliminary and final design services for constructing a portion of a recreation trail under one of the bridges in the downtown. The project carried many challenges: There… Read More »

FHWA NHI Bridge Training

Ayres develops and presents Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) National Highway Institute (NHI) training courses to state departments of transportation and other bridge owners nationwide. Ayres’ fourth indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract is the latest in a total of 22 years of teaching hundreds of courses. Ayres is also responsible for developing many of the… Read More »

Hastings Bridge Hydraulic Design

As part of the design-build team for this project, Ayres provided hydraulic and scour analysis in support of this design-build project to replace the US 61 bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota. The project involved detailed floodplain hydraulics using HEC-RAS, bridge scour analysis, and scour countermeasure design. An important aspect of the hydraulic… Read More »