JOB HIGHLIGHTS

City of Venice Resurfacing Contract

The City of Venice hasn’t had a paving project of this size in a few years and this project had some major roads that were in need of repair. The commercial area located near our Main office in North Venice, which encompassed Triple Diamond Blvd, Technology Dr and Precision Dr are three of the main feeders to major Venice Commercial Businesses. These roads were reconstructed around business schedules to accommodate their deliveries and employees. We also resurfaced the Pinebrook neighborhood and placed brand new sidewalk down the main stretch of Pinebrook Way. We also resurfaced the commercial area near downtown Venice: Warfield Ave, Grove St and Spur St. We replaced the concrete apron to the fire station and accommodated their trucks during this process. Later in the project, we resurfaced and fixed issues on San Marco, Riviera and Bayshore Dr. This extra work included replacing storm drain at the main intersection downtown at Harbor Dr and Venice Ave, as well as replacing the brick pavers that had settled with the new stamped asphalt. Project Superintendent duties were split between Wally Cabral and Cameron Milliken. Both did an incredible job completing this project for the City of Venice.

PROJECT BID: 2.7 Million TONNAGE: 27,000

Project Write-up by: Nathan Hassler, Project Manager

SR 776

Scope of Work: A well laid out plan from the beginning made this project run very smooth. SR 776 consisted of mill and overlay, signal and lighting updates, concrete sidewalk, curb & gutter, ADA improvements, guardrail, sod and striping. We were very ambitious to tackle this job and complete it in a short time. The vision we had was well communicated and accepted from all those involved; from superintendent, foreman, crews, subcontractors, to management. The communication did not stop there. We had buy-in from the DOT with such an aggressive schedule knowing any issues would need to be handled at the lowest level if possible. It was great to have a team from owner and contractor that made this such a success. We had a dream, a vision and a team. Teamwork DID make this dream work! Fantastic job to everyone involved! It was an honor to see something so well planned come together with such ease and determination.

CONTRACT AMOUNT: $2,068,027.15 TONNAGE: 4,000 tons 12.5 C 1,850 tons FC-5

SR 82 & SR 29

CONTRACT AMOUNT: 24.5 MILLION TONNAGE: 56,000

SCOPE OF WORK: Lake Excavation, Underground Utilities, Roadway Lighting & Road Construction

This project began November 4th, 2019 to widen SR 82 from Gator Slough Lane to SR 29, from a two-lane undivided roadway to a four-lane divided roadway. While allowing for a future sixlane roadway. Additional improvements on this 3.2 mile corridor include construction of 5-foot wide paved shoulders. Which will also serve as bike lanes, a 54-foot wide median, a 10-foot multi-use trail along the south side, and a 5-foot sidewalk along the north side. The intersection at SR 29 will be changed from a stop condition with a flashing beacon to a roundabout. The construction is expected to be completed by Summer of 2022.

Project Write-up by: Joseph Dutton, Project Manager

SR 80

CONTRACT AMOUNT: $59 MILLION TONNAGE: 90,000

This segment of SR-80 was the final piece of roadway needed to complete the now fully multi-lane highway from Fort Myers to West Palm Beach. Beginning in May 2017 and receiving final acceptance in August 2020, this 3 year project expanded an 11.5 mile stretch of road from 2-lane to 4-lane and included over 1,000,000 CY of embankment, 10 new bridges, and over 90,000 TN of asphalt. This improved roadway is now a much safer route than what it was, and provides a smooth alternate travel route for the traveling public making trips to and from the Florida coasts. Thanks to proper planning and execution, this job had zero deficiencies in the friction course. This project received the honor of being selected as #7 on the Roads & Bridges’ 2020 Top 10 Road Awards. There were a lot of hard working hands on this project – shout out to former Project Superintendent, Joe Dutton; former Project Manager, Clay Cross; Project Engineer, Jared Hardey; Paving Foreman, Lee Lamb and crew; Area 2 MOT Crews (Sam, Tommie, and A-Rod); and a huge thanks to the rest of the Area 2 staff involved to help make this project successful. Congrats on another job well done!

GULF BOULEVARD

The Gulf Boulevard project has been in the hands of Ajax since April 2018. Since being awarded the contract, Ajax teamed up with WGI to do a CSI (Cost Savings Initiative) where we re-engineered a portion of this project to save both the department and Ajax time and money. This project’s main initiative is to correct the existing drainage issue with standing/ponding water in the bike and pedestrian pathways along Gulf Blvd. This project spreads just over 3.1 miles going through both Indian Rocks and Indian Shores Beach. The project officially kicked off in November 2019 where our subcontractor Westra started working on the 12,000 Linear Feet of 8” outlet pipe and nearly 2000 LF of trench drains. To date, we are approximately 60% complete with the drainage work, and 25% complete with the ATPB replacement. Project Superintendent John Duncan and Grade foreman Andrew Cary have been critical parts of getting outside the box while building this project. We are on track to finish this job in Summer/Fall 2021.

Project Write-up by: Isabell Troxell, Project Manager

CONTRACT AMOUNT: $12.1 MILLION

TONNAGE: • 3600Tons ATPB (Asphalt Treated Permeable Base), 1250 Tons FC 5; (Ajax install) • 12,000 LF of 8” Outlet Pipe& 1968 LF of Trench Drains (Sub install, Westra)

SR 693 & SR 688 Resurfacing

This project is located in Largo, FL in Pinellas County. SR 688, or Ulmerton Road, serves as a major east-west running corridor in the region connecting eastern Pinellas County with the Gulf Coast beaches. At the same time. SR 693 (66th Street) serves as major north-south running roadway through the heart of Pinellas County, making this intersection a key piece of the transit corridor in Pinellas County. The project consists of approximately 1.4 miles of resurfacing across six travel lanes on Ulmerton Road and four lanes on 66th St. This project will serve to improve the traveling experience for motorists for years to come with its design of using a high polymer friction course, not often used in the state. The project will also correct deficiencies with the cross slopes of the road through the intersection of Ulmerton and 66th with overbuild asphalt. In addition to the resurfacing work, the project also consists of improvements for pedestrians in the area by relocating existing sidewalk to a greater distance from a highly traveled roadway on 66th St and also drainage improvements in the area.

CONTRACT AMOUNT: $1,873,216.37

TONNAGE: 6078 Tons of FC 12.5 TLC High Polymer

THATS A RAP

In February of 2020, we were solicited by Lee County DOT to bid the Lehigh RAP Paving Project. We were awarded the project at $446,335 over Preferred’ s $472,644 bid and APS’s bid of $701,305. The general scope of work was to process 9,000 tons of asphalt millings that were supplied by Lee County and to “pave” those processed millings at an average depth of 2.5” on 22 roads throughout Lehigh Acres. Once the roads were paved, they were topped with a prime coat and sand covering.

Prior to paving the roads, they had to be cleaned up, widened to 18’ average width, graded out and potholes filled in. Tim Smith and his crew of Matthew Bell and Cody Dahlberg were put to the challenge and completed the work 2 days ahead of schedule.

The millings were located at LCDOT’s maintenance facility and were used on multiple milling projects throughout Lee County. Mickey Cox and his crew, Bill Gearhart and Carl Wright, were tasked to set up our crusher on the Felix Romano property and start processing the millings to a 3” minus. The processing of millings was challening due to a limited work area. Not only did they have minimal room to move equipment and load trucks, but they had to stockpile materials as well. Thanks to Manny Valle and Eugene Hamlin for keeping the crushing crew supplied with water. It was surely a full time task! With Matthew Bell’s help keeping the trucks loaded, Bill and Carl completed the setup, processing and break down in 13 days and averaged approximately 980 tons per day. Lee Lamb’s crew was next to start the RAP paving. Not only did they do a fantastic job but they completed their task 3 days ahead of schedule. They placed an average of 1250 tons of millings per day. Huge accomplishment! We had no complaints from the “sidewalk superintendents” as they were stoked that their roads were finally getting maintained.

Danielle Bentivegna was my saving grace as I had a few projects going simultaneously. Danielle took the reins and ran with this project. Danielle handled all of the daily phone calls, scheduling and communications with Lee County DOT. Along with some scheduling and construction guidance from Garrett Fons, this project went incredibly smooth.

We completed the project ahead of schedule and under budget. A lot of the crews had never paved with millings before and they were excited to have a break from 315 degree asphalt. A couple of crew members even mentioned that they were shocked on how smooth of a final surface they were getting from 3” millings. Thank you to Dirk Danley and Jeremy Norvell from Lee County DOT for the work. Thank you Ariel Ortiz, Ajax QC, for keeping everything measured up. Thank you to Lee Lamb’s crew: Zachary Jahn, Terrell Burdette, Severe Clairfeus, Lawanna Stanley, Jose Garcia, Jesus Garcia, Jeffrey Stanley, Ezi Washington, Billy Ray Byers and Eric McDonald. Thank you Mark (Mouse) Gracie and Tom Pegg for getting the equipment to the job!

That’s a RAP !

Lee Strauss, Estimator/PM