Tony Stehling

Taking John Shine's current responsibilities is new employee-owner, Tony Stehling, who has been hired as operations manager for the North Texas structures operation.Stehling has a bachelor of construction science degree from Texas A&M and has more than 30 years of experience in heavy highway/civil construction.He previously worked for GLF Construction where he managed the company's Texas division.

"Tony's experience and leadership will be a great asset to Austin Bridge & Road as we continue to grow and take on larger, more complicated projects," Creson said.

"It's a bridge that, coincidentally, we built in the 1950s," said Tony Stehling, operations manager for Austin Bridge.
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"There are six piers that hold up the main part of the bridge over the river and they are adequate to support the new structure," Stehling said."We're taking the concrete off, making it wider and adding the structural steel superstructure."

The A+B contract includes an incentive/penalty of $10,000 per day, so the contractor is fighting to make up for some early delays caused by Katrina.

"We had to get Coast Guard approval and our submittals were sent to the New Orleans headquarters just about the time they vacated their offices," Stehling said.
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"We weren't necessarily ready to work, but because demand skyrocketed we had to take it earlier than we planned on," Stehling said.

Inner Loop Extension, Shreveport.