The Sundt Experience: December 2011
December 14, 2011
Motorists driving through busy construction zones don’t usually think about the qualifications of the contractor working just a few feet away from them. Fortunately, highway owners do – especially when the job is complicated or potentially dangerous. That’s why the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently used the Construction Manager at Risk (CM at Risk) delivery method to select Sundt and joint venture partner, Vastco, Inc., to rebuild the outdated Cordes Junction traffic interchange. The $51 million project, located about 65 miles north of downtown Phoenix at Interstate 17 (I-17) and State Route 69 (SR 69), involves the construction of seven new bridges, including an unusually challenging one that will be built over live traffic on I-17.
The Sundt Experience: November 2011
November 1, 2011
Innovative technology and a faster, safer, less expensive construction approach gave Sundt and a joint venture partner, Slayden Construction, the edge over the competition in their recent proposal to reconstruct the aging Sellwood Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. Rather than rebuilding the 2,000-foot-long bridge in sections and shifting traffic back and forth between the old structure and newly completed segments, as was originally outlined in the project’s Environmental Impact Statement, the team used Building Information Modeling (BIM) and a sophisticated video presentation to develop and propose an alternate "shoofly" approach.