Merlo, Inc

06/15/2026

It's not a country road, but West Virginia drivers will soon have a new bridge to take them home. Crews are using 550-and 100-ton cranes to set seven 170-foot-long girders. The heaviest girder was 65,000 pounds and the pick was 77,000 pounds with the cross frames attached. This aspect of the work is a massive endeavor and marks a major milestone on this project.

06/15/2026

It's not a country road, but West Virginia drivers will soon have a new bridge to take them home. Crews are using 550-and 100-ton cranes to set seven 170-foot-long girders. The heaviest girder was 65,000 pounds and the pick was 77,000 pounds with the cross frames attached. This aspect of the work is a massive endeavor and marks a major milestone on this project.

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

The crew is out in force pouring a flawless concrete deck for the new Dilltown Bridge.

06/02/2026

Dilltown Bridge is taking shape nicely. Merlo crews have set the deck beams and installed rebar. Time to pump some concrete!

06/02/2026

Dilltown Bridge is taking shape nicely. Merlo crews have set the deck beams and installed rebar. Time to pump some concrete!

05/27/2026

We're putting the wraps on the Hoodlebug Trail Pedestrian Bridge in Indiana County. Come mid-June, pedestrians and bicyclists will have a smooth new crossing over Route 22 and drivers will have a beautiful new bridge to admire. Shout out to the Merlo team for another project delivered on schedule.

05/22/2026

We showed you an overview of how we moved the temporary Acrow bridge downstream in 16 hours last week at our Boynton job in Somerset County. Let's talk about the lift.

Safely lifting a 210,000-pound 38-foot-wide-by-100-foot-long temporary bridge is no joke. We worked from plans that detailed every aspect of the pick, from the rigging capacity to the angle of the lifting cables.

The actual lift was done by two 550-ton cranes positioned on each side of the bridge. A tandem lift was done on both the removal and resetting of the bridge.

Pulling off a massive lift safely is all about having a detailed plan and preparing for every contingency. Hats off to everyone at Merlo and PennDOT District 9-0 that made this effort a success.

05/19/2026

Our workers are tied off on top of the piers preparing to secure beams as they're set by excavators on our MD 135 bridge project in Maryland.

05/14/2026

How long does it take to relocate a temporary bridge and reopen it to traffic? For Merlo, it was only about 16 working hours.

We shut down SR 219 on Friday at 10 a.m., moved the bridge downstream, reassembled it, paved, installed guiderails, painted lines, and reopened it to traffic by 12 noon on Saturday.

Why did we relocate this temporary bridge? The new location will keep two lanes of traffic open on SR 219 as we start building a permanent single-span bridge under a separate contract.

All in a day's work for the hard-working crews at Merlo...