UPCOMING MEETINGS
(1PDH) December 4, 2025: Delaware Memorial Bridge
Date & Time:
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
12:00PM to 1:00PM
Topic:
Delaware Memorial Bridge: UHPC for Large Bridge Deck Rehabilitation
Location:
Virtual (meeting link to follow registration)
Register HERE!
Fees:
Member/Non-Member: $15
PLEASE RSVP BY October 29th, 2025 at 5:00PM
Description:
UHPC Solutions North America is the leading specialty contractor for installing Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) overlays in the United States. In the fall of 2023, our team completed the country’s largest UHPC overlay installation on the Delaware Memorial Bridge (Structure 1) for the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA). A UHPC rehabilitation solution was chosen for its superior strength, chloride/salt resistance, and 75+ year lifespan, offering an economic alternative to a full bridge deck replacement.
This landmark project involved rehabilitating over 550,000 square feet of bridge deck across two miles and four lanes and placing nearly 5,000 cubic yards of UHPC at a 2-inch thickness. The work was completed ahead of schedule with minimal traffic disruption. Due to the project's unprecedented scale—which significantly surpassed all previous UHPC overlay installations in the U.S.—new construction techniques, equipment, and quality control (QC) procedures were developed and implemented.
This presentation will discuss the UHPC technology and the project’s background, challenges, scope, construction methods, specialized equipment, and execution from a contractor’s perspective. Participants will discover the practical benefits of UHPC overlays for large-scale, high-volume bridge structures with aging decks. The presentation will also highlight how the U.S. construction industry successfully scaled up to complete this large-scale UHPC overlay project in an innovative and cost-effective way while minimizing traffic interruption.
Presenters:
John P. McFadden
Project Manager, UHPC Solutions
John McFadden is a Project Manager with UHPC Solutions North America, a specialty concrete contractor focused
on bridge rehabilitation solutions using Ultra High Performance Concrete and other innovative materials. UHPC
Solutions North America is the most experienced UHPC contractor in North America, having mixed and placed over
6,000 CY of UHPC and installed more than a dozen UHPC overlays in the U.S.
As a Project Manager, Mr. McFadden is responsible for general management of all projects for UHPC Solutions
North America where he oversees all functions related to estimating, project startup, execution and closeout. Mr.
McFadden has 25 years of construction management experience in bridge, concrete and other types of heavy
highway projects. He is a graduate of Pace University in Westchester, NY.
Peter J. Seibert
Technical Expert, UHPC Solutions
Peter J. Seibert is the Technical Expert for UHPC Solutions North America. Throughout his over 25 years
of experience in the construction materials industry, Peter held various managerial, technical, operational and marketing
positions in cement, precast and ready-mix concrete. Peter was also for 7 years the North American Technical
Director of a major UHPC supplier. He obtained his Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto,
ON, a Masters in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier
University, Waterloo, ON. He is a licensed civil engineer in Ontario.
https://www.uhpcsolutions.com/
Questions:
Please email phillysei@gmail.com