J. E. Greiner Company was a

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-based

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

firm specializing in bridge design.

History

The firm was founded in 1908 by former

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

bridge engineer John Edwin Greiner (February 24, 1859 – November 15, 1942) and led by Greiner and his associate Hershel Heathcote Allen. The firm was later known as Greiner Engineering and opened a second office in Chicago, apparently in connection with its work on the Calumet (Chicago) Skyway. In 1995, the firm was acquired by

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, now part of

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. The firm designed numerous notable bridges and also prepared transportation planning studies, the first of which was ''Maryland's Primary Bridge Program'' for the Maryland State Roads Commission (1938). Later studies included ''Transportation Plans for Washington'' (D.C., 1946) and ''Expressway System for Metropolitan Providence'' (Rhode Island, 1947), both with De Leuw, Cather & Company.

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* Baltimore Harbor Tunnel - under Patapsco River and

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Baltimore–Washington Parkway The Baltimore–Washington Parkway (also referred to as the B–W Parkway) is a highway in the U.S. state of Maryland, running southwest from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. The road begins at an interchange with U.S. Route 50 (US 50 ...

- formerly Interstate 295, later

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* Bellaire Bridge *

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( St. Augustine, Florida) * Calumet (Chicago) Skyway, (

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- * Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge - over lower

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between Maryland and Virginia, below Washington, D.C. *

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) - (Later renamed "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge" in 2000s - built 1914-1917 carrying South Hanover Street

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over Ferry Branch / Middle Branch of the Patapsco River / Baltimore Harbor) *

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(Baltimore, Maryland) *

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge carries U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 301 (Jefferson Davis Highway) across the Appomattox River at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line. It joins Colonial Heights and Petersburg, Virginia. Originally constr ...

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Silver Bridge The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio. On Dec ...

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, and

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) * Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge - over

Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River (; Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the ...

in northeastern Maryland *

Whitney Young Memorial Bridge The Whitney Young Memorial Bridge is a bridge that carries East Capitol Street across the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Finished in 1955, it was originally called the East Capitol Street Bridge. It was renamed for civil ...

(East Capitol Street Bridge, Washington, D.C.) * Fred Hartman Memorial Bridge (

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