Pros And Cons Of Accelerated Bridge Construction

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[1]The bridge plays an important role in our life, it contributes nation’s economy due to daily transportation, which is vital for trade. Nowadays, Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) technique is used instead of Conventional Bridge Construction (CBC) as it reduce on-site construction time when building new bridges or maintenance of bridges, therefore lower lifecycle cost. Also, the ABC provide more pros than cons without lowering quality of the bridge. For example, it reduce the traffic mobility, it also minimize on-site construction time as segments of bridges are pre-casted so that it only need to be transported and assembled on-site. [2,3] It also has benefits of reduced total project delivery time, reduced weather-related construction