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Hyundai to Build $5.5B Electric Vehicle Plant Near Savannah Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called the deal his state made recently with Hyundai Motor Group as the largest economic development project in the Peach State’s history.

At a groundbreaking ceremony May 20, the South Korean manufacturer revealed that its plans to construct a massive $5.5 billion electric vehicle (EV) plant near Savannah — one that will employ thousands of people.

Hyundai Motor Group CEO Jaehoon Chang made the announcement with Kemp at the site of the future factory in Bryan County, where state and local officials bought a flat,

sprawling tract for $61 million last year in hopes of luring a major manufacturer.

Hyundai plans to employ at least 8,100 workers at the facility near the unincorporated town of Ellabell west of Savannah. It will be Hyundai’s first U.S. plant dedicated to assembling electric vehicles and is slated to also produce vehicle batteries.

“This new, high tech EV plant represents the future of our business,” Chang told more than 100 people gathered under a tent pitched at the site on a dusty field of cleared dirt.

Hyundai Motors said it plans to start construction early next year, and by 2025, it should begin producing up to 300,000 vehicles per year. The company did not reveal which vehicle models the Georgia plant will make, the AP reported.

In a video shown at the groundbreaking, Hyundai Motors Chairman Euisun Chung said it will produce “a wide range of exciting, innovative EVs for our American customers.”

The company and Georgia officials said they expect suppliers to invest an additional $1 billion in the area. see HYUNDAI page 4

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Hyundai’s New EV Factory Is Its First in United States HYUNDAI from page 1

“It’s going to continue to bring wealth and opportunity to the region,” noted Kemp, who predicted a ripple effect that will boost businesses from Savannah’s already booming seaport to restaurants and convenience stores in the southeast Georgia region.

The announcement came at a time when President Joe Biden was visiting South Korea.

The AP reported that while on the trip, he met with Hyundai’s CEO in Seoul to thank him for his significant investment in the United States.

Hyundai Will Be GeorgiaÊs Second EV Factory Hyundai’s new facility is the second huge electric vehicle plant announced in Georgia in less than a year. Rivian Automotive announced its plans last December for a $5 billion electric truck factory east of Atlanta that is expected to employ about 7,500 workers.

Kemp declined to discuss with reporters the details of what incentives and tax breaks the company was offered for locating in Georgia, but, according to the AP, Rivian received a package worth $1.5 billion.

The state and its partner local governments bought 2,200 acres in Bryan County a year ago to lure a large manufacturer — a tract of land that ended up not being large enough for Hyundai. So, Georgia and its partners purchased

two more neighboring tracts to expand the site to more than 2,900 acres.

That equates to more than 4.5 sq. mi. dedicated to the Hyundai project.

Officials declined to reveal the sale price of the extra

acreage, telling the AP the property was under contract, but the deal had not yet been finalized.

Hyundai photo

Hyundai Motor Group has entered into an agreement with the state of Georgia to build its first dedicated full electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the United States. Seated are Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp (L) and Hyundai Motor Company President and CEO Jaehoon Chang.

New Hyundai Factory to Be Built Near Important Hubs The Bryan County plant site sits adjacent to Interstate 16, a link between Savannah and Macon, not far from its intersection with I-95, a route that spans the Eastern Seaboard. It is also near to the Port of Savannah, the fourth-busiest seaport in the country.

Kemp predicted the Hyundai plant will become one of the biggest customers for Savannah’s port, which has already seen immense growth in recent years.

Hyundai Motor Group sells cars under the Hyundai and Kia brands. The automaker already operates two American assembly plants in Montgomery, Ala., and in West Point, Ga. According to Kemp, incentives help Georgia compete for big projects with states such as South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. At the groundbreaking, he pointed to the Kia plant in West Point as one that filled a void when the local textile industry shut down years earlier.

“You’ve seen downtowns that used to be ghost towns, [and] they’re vibrant communities now,” he explained, adding, “These are investments that we’ll be reaping the benefits [from] 20 to 30 years down the road.” 

Ports Authority Plans $430M Upgrade to Savannah Port Due to an increase in business at the Port of Savannah, the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) plans to spend approximately $430 million to make major capacity and infrastructure improvements at the city’s shipyards.

Of that total, GPA is covering $395.4 million, funded through the authority’s proceeds. The federal government is chipping in an additional $34.6 million grant, The Center Square reported May 19.

The news comes as the port announced it had handled 495,782 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) in April, a port record for the month when GPA’s containerized trade increased 6.2 percent. It also represented GPA’s third busiest month ever.

The growth is related in part to retailers replenishing depleted inventories and making early orders to ensure product availability, GPA noted. For the fiscal year to date, GPA has handled 4.75 million TEUs, an improvement of 8 percent or 344,260 TEUs year over year.

The Authority recently said that its Garden City Terminal now handles almost one out of every nine loaded containers crossing docks nationwide.

“The phenomenal growth we have achieved has been made possible by the

team effort of GPA and Gateway Terminals employees, the International Longshoremen’s Association, and our partners in trucking and rail,” GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch said in a statement.

“Their hard work has ensured the free flow of cargo between major markets across the U.S. Southeast and the world.”

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• The Peak Capacity Project has added 900,000 TEUs of annual container yard capacity to Garden City Terminal as of April 13. Another 300,000 TEUs of capacity are

Construction should be complete by midsummer.

• Phase II of the Garden City Terminal West project will add a total of one million TEUs of annual capacity, with the first phase coming online in 2023.

• Down the Georgia coast at GPA’s Port of Brunswick, the Mayor’s Point Terminal will get a replacement of a 50,000 sq.-ft. cargo shed with a new, 100,000 sq.-ft. warehouse with modern life safety improvements and flooring upgrades to handle heavy cargoes.

“Our long-running program of infrastructure expansion, coupled with the Authority’s ability as an Joel Wooten owner-operator to speed up the schedule of development, has Georgia Ports Authority allowed the Port of Savannah to adapt to heightened container volumes,” GPA Board Chairman Joel Wooten said in an Authority news expected to come online by July. release. “On-terminal and inland capacity • Phase I of the Garden City Terminal improvements enable cargo to flow across West project will add a 25-acre chassis yard our docks without congestion.” next to Ga. Highway 21. Grading and placeSavannah was recently ranked the top ment of aggregate base are ongoing, with the U.S. container port by loaded export volcontractor having turned over approximately ume, handling 1.38 million TEUs in 10 acres of space for use in February. Calendar Year 2021, according to GPA. 

“On-terminal and inland capacity improvements enable cargo to flow across our docks without congestion.”

Port Upgrades Made to Assist Workload At a meeting of the GPA Board in mid-May, several topics regarding the Port of Savannah’s capacity improvements were discussed, including: • The renovations to Container Berth 1 (CB-1) at the Garden City Terminal are more than 40 percent complete. The realigned CB-1 will increase annual berth capacity by 1.4 million TEUs and provide an additional big ship berth served by new shipto-shore cranes. Substantial completion is expected in June 2023.

• The Authority expects to bring online nine new electric rubber-tired gantry (RTG) cranes by the spring of 2023. This will bring the Port of Savannah’s total RTG fleet to

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Wider Lanes, New Bridges Part of GDOT’s 16@95 Project Construction crews and the Georgia Department of Transportation are making considerable progress on a $295 million project just outside of Savannah.

At the point where I-95 crosses over I-16, just a few miles west of downtown Savannah, crews are clearing benchmarks for a major construction project, primarily along I-16, to keep traffic moving safely and efficiently.

The 16@95 Improvement Project takes aim at improving

I-16 and I-95, one of Georgia’s busiest freight corridors as well as the gateway to Georgia’s growing port in Savannah, by reconstructing the interchange at I-16 and I-95 in Chatham County and widening I-16 to relieve traffic congestion.

Most recently, crews are working on reconstructing six bridges along the route, replacing four other spans and building three new bridges.

The project began in early 2020 and is expected to finish later this year.

The 16@95 Improvement Projects are being funded through the transportation agency’s Major Mobility Investment Program (MMIP), a first-of-its-kind enterprise to create more road capacity, improve freight movement and decrease travel times on Peach State routes primarily used by heavy trucks.

The effort is being built by the Savannah Mobility Contractors (SMC) Joint Venture, a group headed by the prime contractors, N.Y.-based Dragados USA and Prince Contracting in Tampa, Fla. The design team is led by Jacobs Engineering, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

The SMC’s major subcontractors include Baker Constructors in Savannah and C.W. Matthews Contracting in Marietta.

Locally, the major subcontractors include Baker Constructors in Savannah and C.W. Matthews Contracting in Marietta.

Bridge Deck Construction Crews erected “partial turbine” bridge ramps with each new column poured and girder set. Constructing these complex structures is a highly technical and precise endeavor.

After the bents are constructed on-site, pre-cast concrete girders are delivered and set in place using cranes.

“The most unique aspect of the project is the interchange reconstruction, which will be the first partial-turbine interchange in Georgia,” said Denise Grabowski, a consultant with Symbioscity, a Savannah urban planning firm, who, through her company, also is the spokesperson of the SMC Joint Venture on the building enterprise.

Once the girders are set in place, metal decking Stay in Place (SIP) forms are installed between each girder. This creates the bottom form to support the concrete and rebar when the deck is poured on top of the girders.

Bridge overhang formwork systems are typically made up of a combination of plywood sheathing, timber joists and steel or aluminum overhang brackets. The temporary formwork extends outward from the outside girders of each side of the bridge. This additional width is utilized to pour concrete onto the deck the full width of the bridge and is

The main goals of the 16@95 work are to widen the I16 mainline corridor, along with reconstructing six bridges along the route, replace four other spans and build three new bridges.

Crews erected “partial turbine” bridge ramps with each new column poured and girder set. Constructing these complex structures is a highly technical and precise endeavor.

removed once the concrete overhang is poured. It also provides safe walkways and handrails to the workers performing work far above ground level.

Vertical forms are built to create the edge of the thick concrete deck. These forms are also used as supports for the screed rails that finishes the deck later in the process.

With the form and rebar in place, concrete is then transported from the ground level using a combination of pump trucks and concrete buckets and poured into the forms. A screed is then used to create a consistent level surface.

After the concrete is poured in place, the surface is wetted and covered with burlap and plastic to allow the concrete to properly cure. The concrete must cure for approximately five to seven days. Sample test cylinders are created with each pour and are tested at intervals determined by the project team as well as at 28 days to ensure proper strength is achieved.

Quality Control Each concrete truck that is delivered to the site holds approximately 10 yds. of concrete.

Concrete is tested constantly throughout the construction of the project. The concrete is tested on the first load and approximately every 50 cu. yds. that arrives on-site each day.

Samples of the concrete are pulled and placed into cylinders for strength testing. Some of the cylinders of concrete are allowed to cure and are checked at various intervals.

Cylinders are also sent to Georgia DOT’s Office of Materials and Testings’ lab for further analysis and testing.

Additional Work Other upgrades to I-16 and its interchange with I-95 include: • The addition of ultramodern, energy efficient LED lighting at the intersection; • Installing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology, such as cameras and changeable message signs for fast incident response and improved real-time communication with traveling motorists through the GA 511 system; and • The construction of noise barriers at the southeast quadrant of the I-16/I-95 interchange and I-16 eastbound. There are three separate sound walls of 5,200 ft., 850 ft. and 2,700 ft. in length — all with a light gull gray color with a stone pattern and a graffiti-proof coating.  CEG (All photos courtesy of Georgia DOT)

Bridge overhang formwork systems are typically made up of a combination of plywood sheathing, timber joists and steel or aluminum overhang brackets.

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