WV-VOAD Bridge Replacement

JZ Engineering is collaborating with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (WV-VOAD) to replace vehicular bridges destroyed by flooding during the summers of 2015 and 2016. The bridges will end the isolation from vital resources that the families are currently subjected to.

Check out the video coverage below, an interview on National Public Radio and the following articles on the Popular Science website ("Climate-Proofing") and the MDS website ("Young Engineers"). Recently the 70th bridge of this project was completed. Read this article by WV VOAD. In 2016, WV-VOAD was awarded the Innovative Program of the Year Award for its work replacing bridges.

Video from the MDS Youtube channel - June 26, 2017

Video from the MDS Youtube channel - December 16, 2015

Video accompanying the VOAD story by the WCHS Eyewitness News Channel (Charleston-Huntington, WV) - March 18th, 2016

Photos of some of the completed bridges.

WV-VOAD ​Bridge Replacement

WV-VOAD Bridge Replacement