Sverdrup & Parcel

Sverdrup & Parcel was an American engineering firm that had specialized in bridges and other large structures.

Leif J. Sverdrup (1898-1976), a native of Norway in American civil engineer, and John Ira Parcel, his former professor at the University of Minnesota, the office founded in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. After heavy early years during the Great Depression Sverdrup & Parcel was able to establish through contracts for construction of bridges under the New Deal programs. Over the years, Sverdrup & Parcel evolved into the later Sverdrup Corporation with over 5600 employees. 1999 merged this company with Jacobs Engineering, Pasadena, California, today one of the world's largest engineering companies.

Planned by Sverdrup & Parcel projects include:

  • The Amelia Earhart Bridge ( 1939) in Atchison, Kansas on the Missouri River;
  • The first Sidney Lanier Bridge (1956 ), a vertical lift bridge over the Brunswick River in Georgia;
  • The Puente de las Américas ( 1962) over the Panama Canal;
  • The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (1964 ), who in 1965 appointed " Architectural Wonders of the Modern Age";
  • Busch Memorial Stadium (1966 ) in St. Louis, Missouri;
  • The Puente de Angostura (1967 ) on the Orinoco River in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela;
  • The I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ( in 2007 collapsed );
  • The Hearnes Center (1972 ), a multi-purpose hall in Columbia (Missouri );
  • The Mercedes -Benz Superdome (until 2011 Louisiana Superdome ) ( 1975) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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