Park Union Pedestrian Bridge

Arup is the Engineer of Record for the Park Union Bridge, opened to pedestrians in July 2021, connecting the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum to America the Beautiful Park and Downtown Colorado Springs. Called the rip curl for its cresting design, the footbridge was collaboratively shaped with Design Architect DS+R and spans 245ft over active rail lines. The 300 ton steel superstructure is designed to both integrate with the aesthetic vision for the museum and to minimize impact on rail operations during construction.

Building over railroads presents unique constraints both in design and construction. Maintaining railroad operation unimpeded during erection was a key driver in the design; the yard includes thirteen rail tracks with two through tracks that have freight train traffic of approximately ten trains per day. The bridge was erected 3 hours faster than the allowed 8 hour window.

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Speaker:

Lana Potapova, P.E.,  is an Associate in Arup’s New York Bridge Group. Lana has a broad range of experience as a design-focused structural engineer ranging from significant cable-stay bridges, and award-winning infrastructure projects to unique footbridges. Lana’s engineering experience spans across USA and Canada including leading design and authoring technical design reviews. She has familiarity with various procurement methods, with a particular expertise in working on design-build projects, developing designs both on behalf of the owner and the contractor. Lana’s expertise in parametric modeling tools allow for highly efficient design of large infrastructure projects and drastically facilitate the delivery of bridges with complex geometries. Lana has a strong interest in marriage of structure and architecture; she assisted teaching graduate architecture studios at Columbia University, has published work in collaboration with Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is a guest steel design lecturer at the Manhattan College.

Merica May, AIA, is an architect and artist working in New York City. She gained her experience in her first career as a ballet dancer and through a decade at the multi-disciplinary studio Diller Scofidio and Renfro leading the design and construction of cultural and institutional projects including the Park Union Bridge, Microsoft Headquarters, and Adelaide Contemporary. In 2022 Merica May launched her own design practice Gray Matters The studio blends her passions for performance and placemaking. Their recent projects engage reuse, big data, gender, history, housing, and race. Their commission for Tech’s digital and physical Women’s Tribute will open this Fall.

Holly Deichmann, AIA, is an Associate Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). She was the Project Architect of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Project Director for the adjoining Park Union Bridge, a curved steel structure connecting the museum campus to the adjacent America the Beautiful Park. Holly was also the Project Director for the Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is currently the Project Director for the New Museum of Transport in Budapest, a new home for the museum located on the brownfield site of a former train repair facility. She is also Project Director for a resort outside Tirana, Albania and a 46 story mixed-use tower in Tirana, Albania.

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