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DATE: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
WHAT: The process of welding the steel beams for the glass cantilever-designed bridge, The Skywalk, is now underway. Shortly after the steel is fitted and welded together a process called “Jack-and-Roll” will be used in order to extend the bridges cantilever “U” shape steel piece 4,000 feet over the canyon. The [...]

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Walking on Air: Grand Canyon Skywalk

It’s 10-feet wide and extends 70-feet from where it’s anchored to the rock. It has a deck made of tempered glass. That’s a description of a new $30 million structure being built in the Grand Canyon that’s expected to draw thousands.
It’s the Hualapai Indian Tribe’s “Glass Walkway,” a structure that will be suspended over the [...]

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