1. Bridge Planning Seminar 2008
What good planning said was required ultimately
Design without a plan
What was built first stage
First Stage of Plan
“Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail”

2. Introduction Welcome Purpose of Seminar Original goals were:
To provide a venue for bridge planners to discuss and exchange ideas and issues impacting delivery of this specialized engineering function
To present and discuss recent changes in AT bridge planning info, best practices and tool advancements.
Due to the unexpected level of interest from various other bridge disciplines we have amended the seminar to also include a more generic overview of the bridge planning process as relates to current practice
On behalf of the Bridge Engineering Section welcome to the first Bridge Planning Seminar… hopefully we will have future ones as the needs arises or as the practicing bridge planners require to share and expand the collective bridge planning expertise
Housekeeping – bathrooms, no smoking in building or near doors, cell phones,

3. The Plan for Today Housekeeping Bathroom locations No smoking Breaks
Cell phones
Emergency Exits

4. Agenda Agenda Overview Questions/discussion welcome
Moderator (Des) will keep things on schedule
May be a few minutes at the end of presentation for discussions
Process for additional feedback

5. Agenda

6. Bridge Planning Mini-History
Formal bridge planning started in Mid 1950’s
Gordon Taylor was minister He was the first minister of Highways and Transport
Was committed to developing key network highways in east/west and north/south directions supported by district roads and local roads
1960’s marked an era of the largest expansion of highways and bridges in the province even under constrained financial budgets
This was only possible from the bridge perspective by optimizing bridge crossings through the bridge planning process
Many of these structures have fully met their functional design service life and still continue to function today in spite of massive growth in traffic

7. Bridge Planning Mini-History
First DD’s were completed in 1955
The DD basic content used then is still used in current practice
Emil Sanden was first AT bridge planner and became the guiding light for dealing with the difficult complex river crossings that were necessary to support the rapidly expanding highway network.
Gerry Mazurek was the first Section Head of the Bridge Planning Section. Under his direction many of the current senior practitioners learned their trade.
Up until 1995 all bridge planning for Alberta Transportation was done by the Bridge Planning Section for major crossings. Preliminary engineering of standards bridges and culvert was ultimately undertaken by regional bridge staff in the mid 1980’s with the onset of the regional transportation offices
All formal bridge planning has been outsourced since 1995 however AT will likely undertake some limited bridge engineering including bridge planning in order to preserve in-house expertise and to effectively better communicate with practitioners with respect to technical issues.

8. DD-100

9. DD-100

10. DD-100