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The Panama Bridge project has partnered with Rio Missions Panama to design a bridge for the village of La Gigi, Panama. The mountain community of La Gigi experiences heavy rainfall during the rainy seasons. A stream runs along the community, restricting their access to schools, employment options, and other communities. While passable during dry seasons, the stream floods and becomes impassable after heavy rains. The residents are effectively cut off from their livelihoods, church, health services, and other communities during this time.
To accommodate this need, the Panama Bridge Team has spent the last two academic years designing a 90 foot aluminum truss bridge. The design includes a unique construction strategy to deal with challenging site constraints.
Publication Date
Spring 2021
Keywords
Messiah University, Messiah College, Engineer, community, service
Disciplines
Engineering
Recommended Citation
Fetterman, Luke T.; Barner, Jordan T.; Eyster, Mikayla R.; Harro, Crosby; Hartman, Zachary C.; Ling, Noah; Moyer, Drew W.; Thrush, Noah W.; and Swartz, Brian D., "Panama Bridge Project" (2021). 2021 Collaboratory/Engineering Symposium. 8.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2021/8
Comments
The work presented in this document has been provided solely for educational and edification purposes. All materials are composed by students of Messiah University and are not certified by any means. They do not constitute professional consultation and require the examination and evaluation by a certified engineer through any product development process. The contents documented are the produced work by the student design team but do not necessarily represent the as-built or as-assembled state of a complete and tested design; faculty, staff, and other professionals involved in our program may have augmented the student engineering work during implementation, which may not be recorded within this document.
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