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There are certain things in life we expect to move. Cars. Elevators. Roller coasters. A bridge carrying thousands of vehicles several hundred feet above the ground is not usually on that list. But bridges move. They expand. They contract. They flex under loads. They react to wind. Some move several inches as temperatures change. And that's not necessarily a problem. In fact, trying to stop a bridge from moving could create a much bigger one. Welcome back to Why Is It Built Like That?, where we'r …

Scaffolding Massive Bridges Sometimes the work you need to reach isn't 300 feet above the ground. It's 300 feet above water, traffic, or absolutely nothing. Welcome to bridge scaffolding. Bridges present some of the most unusual access challenges in construction. Unlike a building, where much of the work is accessible from the ground or from relatively predictable elevations, the areas requiring maintenance on a bridge may be underneath the structure, between massive structural members, above ac …