Balfour Beatty, as part of CRC Joint Venture, Successfully Places First Beams to Support Bridge Widening on TxDOT’s Oak Hill Parkway Project
June 21 2022 - 4:48PM
Business Wire
Balfour Beatty, as part of Colorado River Constructors (CRC)
joint venture team, achieves a major milestone during the delivery
of Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $674 million Oak
Hill Parkway project. On the night of June 16, the project team
successfully set the first bridge beams that support widening
activities east of US 290 and SH 71 “Y” interchange in Austin,
Texas.
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To achieve the milestone in one night, crews used trucks to
transport 10 bridge beams through the roadway barrier onto the wide
shoulder of the US 290 mainlanes where crane operators then lifted
and set the beams on bearing pads atop of previously constructed
columns and caps. The successful placement of the bridge beams
supports upcoming widening operations over Old Fredericksburg Road
which include installing permanent metal decking, forming bridge
overhangs and setting rebar for future bridge decks and barriers.
This same operation will take place in the next few weeks at
Monterey Oaks Boulevard.
“The start of bridge widening activities over Old Fredericksburg
Road and Monterey Oaks Boulevard signifies significant progress on
TxDOT’s Oak Hill Parkway project,” said John Rempe, PE, Balfour
Beatty executive vice president and region manager of Civils
operations in the Southwest. “I commend our bridge crews for their
collaboration in safely performing this operation that serves as a
step forward in alleviating traffic congestion and improving
long-term mobility along US 290 and SH 71 in Austin.”
Since breaking ground on the project last summer, the CRC joint
venture team completed its first major traffic shift west of Circle
Drive and is preparing for its second major traffic shift where the
first permanent frontage roads will come online at the west end of
the Oak Hill Parkway corridor. The crew continues to work on the
construction of more than 10 different retaining walls along the
project’s corridor which are a mix of soil nail walls,
cast-in-place walls and drilled shaft sound walls. The delivery of
more than 10 bridge structures is also underway where team members
have completed drilled shafts, columns, caps, abutments, and now
bridge beams.
Additionally, due to the project’s location, large trenching and
milling machines are being used during excavation work. Almost
400,000 cubic yards have been excavated to date, of an estimated 2
million cubic yards, to complete the project.
Once complete, the Oak Hill Parkway project will reconstruct and
widen US 290 from the east end of Circle Drive to Loop 1 (MoPac
Expressway) and SH 71 from US 290 to Silvermine Drive. The newly
designed roadway will consist of constructing two to three
mainlanes as well as adding two to three frontage-road lanes in
each direction. An overpass for the US 290 main lanes over William
Cannon Drive will also be built, along with direct-connect flyovers
between US 290 and SH 71.
Additional project components include bicycle and pedestrian
accommodations along the entire corridor, cross-street intersection
improvements, U-turn lanes, upstream water detention, storm water
detention and water quality treatment ponds.
The Oak Hill Parkway project is scheduled for completion in
2026.
About Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general
contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build
services for public and private sector clients across the United
States. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, the
company is part of Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY), a leading
international infrastructure group that provides innovative and
efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports
communities and enables economic growth. Balfour Beatty is ranked
among the top domestic building contractors in the United States by
Engineering News-Record. To learn more, visit
www.balfourbeattyus.com.
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