尼克Hetrick摩伊艾奕康科技的项目经理ord, Del., highway interchange job when he got an urgent call from his boss: A Delaware Dept. of Transportation crew on June 2 had verified an engineer's report that piers supporting an interstate bridge in Wilmington had tilted. Knowing emergency repairs were needed, DelDOT shut the busy bridge. After DelDOT and AECOM, its designer, determined the job's scope, AECOM Vice President Bruce Kay wanted Hetrick to be a point man for the firm.

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"[Kay] called me up that morning and basically said, 'How soon can you get here?" Hetrick says. "And so I threw everything in my field office into a cardboard box, got in my truck and drove up there and started what would be six months of a lot of fun."

Also a ton of work. "It was shocking the amount that bridge was leaning," Hetrick says. DelDOT said four of the bridge's 37 piers were out of alignment by up to 4%. "The [state] secretary of transportation said, 'Whatever it takes, work until this bridge is open.' "

Deldot思想从桥旁边的一大块污垢堆中的地下压力引起了倾斜。官员们设定了一个紧迫的截止日期，旨在使桥梁在劳动节部分重新开放。当钟表时，现年34岁的赫特里克（Hetrick）排入了长达120小时的7天，几乎没有时间给他的女婴出生。他开玩笑说：“我的妻子会给我发送我女儿的照片，只是为了提醒我我是父亲。”

宣布的紧急状态促使使用武力帐户。这意味着Hetrick作为建筑经理/居民工程师，必须仔细管理和跟踪每周超过100万美元的人工，材料和设备。他在帮助使复杂工作保持正轨的奉献精神迅速引起了Deldot高级工程师的注意。“没有人比尼克牺牲更多，” Bridges助理总监Barry Benton说。“他对于这个项目的成功以及该项目提前一个月的时间就至关重要。”

The team beat the $35-million project's deadline. Southbound lanes reopened on July 31, a month early; northbound lanes took another month. The bridge was fully operational in early September, just before Labor Day weekend. Hetrick has since left AECOM. In December, he joined R.E. Pierson Construction Co., Pilesgrove, N.J., as project engineer on an upgrade of the Betsy Ross Bridge across the Delaware River.