Kapalua Bridge

Kapalua Adventure Course, Maui, HI

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Construction Images, May-July 2008

Ken Gilman delivers a mainline spool over rough terrain.

Gabe Newton hauls the other three by truck.

South piles in the ground.

Excavators at north abutment.

Sunset from the bridge site.

North abutment: screwing in helical piles with torque motor.

Carroll Vogel hanging out on the edge.

Aaron Nelson with geo-technical inspector Rick Cooper; starting a pile.

Robert Mitton and Steve Howell cut the pile tops to design elevation.

Helical pile after installation at 10,000 ft pounds.

Ken and Steve assemble the first tower leg.

Robert and Steve assemble number two.

Robert and Steve show their work: Two complete north tower legs.

Robert and Carroll tag team the south anchor excavation.

View down in the hole from big excavator.

Carroll and Robert form a bucket brigade on north side.

Robert checks the anchor face angle as Carroll adjusts it with the bucket.

Unorthodox crane: Test lift of a tower leg with the excavator (sans bucket).

Mary Pat Mitton moves forms to the north abutment.

North abutment: Aaron, Austin Thompson, Ken and Marty Walz tie rebar.

The Hawaiian Cement truck backs to the south abutment.

Austin and Aaron direct concrete into the north abutment.

Austin and Steve prep the mainlines for socketing.

Steve and Austin level the bridge bowl prior to pouring molten zinc.

Marty challenges Austin for spool dominance.

Aaron on tag line: Tries to pull it alone.

Austin and tower leg number one.

Ken and Gabe affix a tower leg to the excavator for lifting into position.

The tower raisers.

Gabe packs some dirt over the anchors.

The excavator is dwarfed by the 52' tower.

Ken hustles to get the tower base bolts snug.

Ken up on the tower.

Tower leg two goes up at the south abutment.

Steve and Ken assemble the tower horizontals.

Austin strikes a pose during north tower top horizontal assembly.

Tower leg three goes up, north abutment.

Marty releases the tower leg from the excavator.

Compacting and testing of soil density at the south anchorage.

Carroll during work at the north tower top horizontal.

Marty on the completed tower.

View of the job site from north tower top.

Aaron with geo-tech Rick Cooper.

Patrick O'Donnell and Steve ready the first mainline for pulling.

Steve and Patrick at tower top during mainline pull.

Three mainlines are across.

Carroll stands on mainlines, more than 200 feet up.

A double rainbow graces the bridge.

Bosun Chair work: Carroll installs the first suspender.

Austin and Ken enjoy the view from north abutment.

Austin in the bosun's chair, installing suspender assemblies to the paired mainlines.

Out over Kaopala Gulch; Austin in the distance installing suspenders.

Six suspender pairs installed, 30 to go.

Gabe's turn in the bosun's chair; installing floor beam/suspender assemblies.

Carroll and Aaron assess the next step during skyline set up.

Aaron and Carroll hauling stringer assemblies to Ken; tying the hanging floorbeams together.

Lattice tower and the nature preserve above the bridge site.

A sunset from the tower top.

Bridge enthusiast and photographer Patrick.

Chief engineer Al "Mike" Highberger, PE.

Nearly finished.

View through decking from below.

Kapalua Bridge on completion day: 7/14/08.