Benjamin Jilk, P.E., S.E. Email & Phone Number

Ben is an experienced bridge design engineer with a passion for pursuing and designing complex and technically challenging bridges. He currently oversees a team of engineers and drafters doing the final design and preparing plans for new bridges and bridge repair projects and actively pursues challenging projects for his team.Ben managed the design and plan preparation of and prepared the special provisions for the new TH 63 bridge over the Mississippi River at Red Wing, Minnesota and was the Engineer of Record for the bridge. The bridge consists of 7 spans. The main river piers are supported by drilled shafts and were designed to resist vessel collision loads. The other piers are supported by H-piles. One abutment is supported on H-pile and designed for significant dragload. The other abutment is supported on a spread footing. Ben was the lead designer of the 217ft-432ft-290ft steel tub girder spans and also did the load rating for the tub girders. The first span was designed to be launched over the railroad tracks. Ben was involved with this project from structure type selection through preliminary and final design and into construction.Ben also has experience in modeling segmental concrete box girder bridges (longitudinal and transverse) using balanced cantilever construction. He has also done analysis of existing fracture-critical bridges.In addition to this experience, Ben has a wide variety of experience designing various other superstructure and substructure components for new bridges as well as bridge repair projects including writing special provisions for the projects.

Listed skills include Sensor Technology, Mathcad, Structural Analysis, Structural Engineering, and 4 others.