FORMA

FORMA’s Job Order Contracting team has just completed a multi-phase rehab of Seattle’s very cool Salmon Bone Bridge.   

A pedestrian footbridge rehabilitation project over a year in the making, FORMA was called in last summer to restore this iconic landmark in West Seattle on Longfellow Creek, originally designed by artist Lorna Jordan and first installed in 1999.

Our team’s work last summer involved critical accessibility and durability upgrades — existing wood timbers and plywood were removed, the sub structure was dry-ice-blasted, additional structural steel was installed, a new epoxy coating system was applied, and new Corten Steel planks replaced the original deteriorating cedar decking.

Split into two phases to accommodate critical fish windows and the delicate salmon populations slowly reconstituting in the creek below, FORMA’s work this year replaced the bridge’s safety cables and stripped and repainted the metal structure itself that swoops to form the salmon “bones.”

We encourage you all to get out to the North Delridge / Youngstown neighborhood (near the Dragonfly Garden & Pavillion, also designed by Ms Jordan), just north of the West Seattle Golf Course, to check out this revived, unique and wonderful structure for yourselves. And/or you can read more about it in the Seattle Times. Happy trails!