Articles Tagged with ''Highway/Bridge''

Contractors reconfigure a three-freeway interchange on a construction site interwoven with ever-shifting alignments to keep traffic moving.

Project team hustling to deliver new bridge spans to better facilitate heightened pace of heavy load deliveries for Kennedy Space Center launches.

WSDOT’s expansive portfolio of projects—from the mega to the miniscule—are keeping Northwest contractors busy.

Projects totaling more than $1.3 billion are revamping major sections of highway throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Brian Witte was just a freshman in high school when he launched his infrastructure career. “It was a small town in Iowa, and the teacher’s neighbor was the town engineer for a dozen communities,” recalls Witte, vice president of construction engineering for Parsons Corp. “They needed help.

Darrell Johnson’s ability to keep a $2-billion design-build highway widening on track despite multiple risks and challenges stems partly from his experience by way of commuter rail.

The current work includes widening six miles of the westbound interstate and constructing and installing sound reduction walls. 

In an effort to reconstruct and expand 7.64 miles of roadway along the IH-10 corridor in Austin County, crews expanded the existing two main lane and two-way frontage roads into six main lanes with three in each direction along with one-way frontage roads on opposing sides.

Completed in December 2022, the $7.9-million Union Street Pedestrian Bridge provides an accessible connection between Seattle’s downtown core and the waterfront.

As one of three bridges that connect the West Seattle Peninsula to the rest of the city, the $64-million West Seattle High-Rise Bridge (WSHB) is a critical piece of infrastructure because the next available access point is more than four miles south of Seattle. More than 125,000 commuters rely on the bridge to cross the Duwamish River into downtown.