Introduction

State bridge engineers are fed up with paint failures. Short-term "solutions", such as painting, are no longer acceptable. Low life-cycle-cost alternatives are gaining favor. Engineers know the true cost of paint’s-perpetual-poor-performance and recognize metalizing’s unequaled record of effectiveness. THESE ENGINEERS respect the value of the taxpayer’s dollars, and WE wish to support them and their use of metalizing.

1. Providing general metalizing information and news about bridge metalizing and related subjects.
2. Helping bridge owners and engineers to find more detailed information on metalizing.
3. Bringing together those owners who have structures to metalize with those companies that provide metalizing products and services.

Many state DOT’s and toll authorities have taken the initiative to metalize both new and existing bridges. The momentum continues to build in these metalizing organizations. However, some DOT’s are restrained by bureaucracy, inertia, or are otherwise blocked from implementing a low-life-cycle-cost metalizing program. We expect that eventually the non-metalizing states will also use metalizing as a means of conserving resources, including tax dollars.

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