University of Vermont
HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM

HISTORIC PRESERVATION SUMMER INSTITUTE

HISTORIC BRIDGES

DESCRIPTION

This course will be offered jointly by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. Engineers, historic preservationists, transportation administrators, elected officials, and the public are invited to enroll.

CURRICULUM

• The evolution of bridge engineering and a history of bridge building in Vermont.
  
• Methods and standards for rehabilitation and restoration of historic bridges.
  
• Laboratory demonstrations of the behavior of steel, concrete, and wood specimens in tension, compression, and bending, as well as demonstration of deflection of a steel bridge and a steel beam.
  
• Use of computer systems to simulate bridge behavior.
  
• Discussion of the Vermont Historic Bridge Program recently created by the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
  
• Methods for developing rehabilitation/restoration plans for historic bridges.
  
• Adapting historic bridges to alternative transportation uses.
  
• Discussion of recent or pending federal and state legislation that will affect historic bridges such as covered bridges and metal truss bridges.
  
• Designs for ornamental railings to be used on new bridges in historic districts and as replications of historic concrete railings.
  
• Description of the Historic American Engineering Record.
  
• Innovative new designs for bridges.
  
• Site inspections of bridges and bridge projects in the Chittenden County region.

DATES: TUESDAY, JULY 6, TO SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1999
LOCATION: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CAMPUS, BURLINGTON, VT
FACULTY:
DR. JEAN-GUY BELIVEAU, ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
DR. ROBERT McCULLOUGH, HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM
ACADEMIC CREDITS: 3 CREDITS, GRADUATE OR UNDERGRADUATE

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
UVM CONTINUING EDUCATION, 322 SO. PROSPECT ST.,
BURLINGTON, VT 05401-3505
TELEPHONE: 1-800-639-3210