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J. E. Greiner Company was a Baltimore, Maryland-based civil engineering firm specializing in bridge design.
The Baltimore-based J. E. Greiner Company grew out of work of bridge engineer John Edwin Greiner. It soon dominated civil engineering work in Baltimore and in 1995 merged with URS, a San Francisco architecture and engineering firm.
After the 1904 Baltimore fire Greiner examined damaged buildngs and worked to establish a new building code for the city. After 1908 he worked independently as J. E. Greiner Company of Baltimore, but in 1995 this firm merged with URS, a San Francisco engineering and architectural corporation.
Company Name: J. E. Greiner. Place: Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Topic (Romaine Term): Bridges Engineering consultants and contractors Topic: Bridge construction industry Consulting engineers Engineers. Subject: Location: Trade Literature at the American History Museum Library Collection: Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections
The designer was Baltimore-based civil engineering firm J. E. Greiner Company, founded by a former B&O Railroad bridge engineer in 1908. The older, two-lane, eastbound section consists of 123 steel spans, including the central cable suspension span supported by towers 354 feet above the water.
Bridge Company. An early design, by the Baltimore firm J.E. Greiner Company, called for a “familiar combi-nation of steel-wire cables and a distinct stiffen-ing truss,” according to Henry Petroski, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, the Aleksandar S. Vesic pro-fessor of civil engineering at Duke University,
Aug 11, 1973 · BALTIMORE, Aug. 10 — A Federal judge ordered today that the United States Steel Corporation and the J. E. Greiner Company, Inc., pay $950,000 in part settlement of suits brought by...
