Articles Tagged with ''Highway/Bridge''

Manchester Airport in northwest England has begun the second phase of its $1.6-billion program with construction of a new 12-gate pier for Terminal 2 by London-based lead contractor Mace Group Ltd. Set for completion in 2025, the new pier will accommodate a variety of aircraft types.

More than 15,000 vehicles travel S.R. 172 (5600 West) daily in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, but an at-grade crossing with the Union Pacific Railroad was creating up to eight hour delays on this two-lane corridor.

Scope of work on this $8.6-million bridge rehabilitation included replacing the two existing Platte Avenue bridges over Sand Creek with a single bridge and adding sidewalks along the north and south sides of the street over the creek.

A new interchange and four new bridges serve the more than 78,000 daily vehicles that access area industrial and commercial properties, including the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, and remove thousands of trucks from local streets.

This design-build project was deftly coordinated in one of the most congested highway interchanges in the country. The interchange includes 10 lanes, more than 20 highway alignments and 11 curved and skewed bridge structures that connect four highways and two airports.

Last reconstructed more than 30 years ago, Hennepin Avenue received an update in 2022 that repaired and replaced street and utility infrastructure.

As part of the community and economic revitalization effort around Chicago’s Old Post Office, Canal Street Plaza’s reconstruction required an innovative construction approach thanks to its structure-on-structure design.

Opened in 1889, Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River is the second-oldest river span serving the St. Louis region, and by 2018, it had far exceeded its design life.

Northern Nevada’s second-ever diverging diamond interchange (DDI) will help alleviate the North Valley’s ever-growing traffic woes.

A joint venture of Flatiron Constructors and Blythe Development Co. successfully took on the massive $183-million Winston-Salem Northern Beltway, a design-build highway project that will loop around the northern part of Winston-Salem.