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Smart Mobility ODOT’s I-77 Bridge Replacement Corridor Enhances Project Tackles Obstacles, Progresses Communication By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Thirty-five miles of highway in central Ohio are about to become a showcase for smart highway technology. Next year, contractors for the Ohio Department of Transportation are expected to complete the installation of the necessary technology, including Dedicated Short Range Communications Devices (DSRCs), along the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor, a 35-mi. stretch of U.S. 33 highway spanning Franklin, Logan and Union Counties between Dublin, Marysville and East Thirty-five miles of highway Liberty. in central Ohio are about to “The on-the-road become a showcase for infrastructure, when smart highway combined with other technology. automotive assets such as the Transportation Research Center and its off-the-road SMART Center, firmly establishes the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor as one of the national’s premier V2X proving grounds,” according to a press release from ODOT. V2X stands for vehicle to everything and is the technology that allows vehicles to communicate with other vehicles and traffic devices. It is heralded as the key to safer, more efficient highways for everyone. “The Smart Mobility Corridor will enable communications so we can constantly monitor how the traffic is performing on the roadway,” said ODOT’s Andrew Bremer, managing director of local affairs. “During snow and ice season, pieces of data that come to us from vehicles will give us a pretty clear indication of where there is black ice or an icy patch so that we would be able to spot treat that section of roadway. It also speaks to the reliability factor. Congestion is a relative term out there. We want to improve congestion, but see SMART page 2
The widening and reconstruction of the I-77 bridge is part of ODOT’s Cleveland Innerbelt Modernization Plan.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
As part of the Cleveland Urban Core Projects, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has what it calls the Cleveland Innerbelt Modernization Plan. One of the initiatives in the work is the widening and reconstruction of the I77 bridge over I-490 and the improvement of I-77 south of I-490 — a $25.6 million contract that was awarded to The Ruhlin Company. The ongoing I-77 work has not been easy, but the Ruhlin project team and crews are tackling any obstacles that come their way. The work will see the current I-77 bridge (one southbound and one northbound 420-ft.-long structures, two lanes in each direction) demolished and replaced with a 510-ft.-long bridge that has three lanes in each direction. The other road work includes 700 ft. of approach roads on either side of the new bridge, along with ramp roadway replacement and improvements.
The work started last October and is expected be completed in October or late fall of 2019. This project is being financed by state and federal funding. “This piece of the Innerbelt Modernization Plan will improve safety and add capacity on I-77 into and out of downtown Cleveland,” said Amanda McFarland, ODOT’s District 12 public information officer. “The planning began in 1997, however the work was put on hold as it was the alternate route for the Innerbelt Bridge reconstruction work. The area was a pinch point for north and southbound traffic prior to construction. Congestion-related crashes along this corridor will hopefully be solved by this project.” The old bridge was built in 1964 and carries 71,400 cars and trucks daily. The new bridge was designed by Richland Engineering Limited. “The bridge deck was reaching the end of its useful life,” said McFarland, “and would have been scheduled for replacement had this project not been in the works. The lifespan for the new bridge is 75 plus years. All new roads and see BRIDGE page 6
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probably 10,000 vehicles a day, to well over 45,000 vehicles a day. So it goes from rural to suburban to urban very quickly over 33 miles. We are able to test a variety of applications with a variety of traffic situations.” With more than 65 automotive companies, the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor is the home to one of the largest concentrations of manufacturers, research and development firms and logistics companies in Ohio, if not the Midwest, according to the ODOT press release. These automotive assets have allowed the corridor to become a leader in the nation’s automotive industry. Several of those private companies will play an important role in helping ODOT launch and develop the system. “Our goal is to outfit 1,200 vehicles in that stretch on U.S. 33,” Bremer said. “It will be voluntary, but we are relying on private contractor Honda. They have a sizeable presence on U.S. 33. They have manufacturing plants and research and development. They will be providing a portion of those onboard units in vehicles. There are a few other manufacturers that have announced they will be supporting this. Toyota will put DSRC technology in their vehicles. We are embarking on a project to retro fit cars out there with onboard units that have the DSRC units. “The 33 Smart Mobility Corridor is a multi-jurisdictional project that has brought together a number of governmental agencies, academia and private sector partners that are dedicated to fostering the development of smart mobility technologies,” ODOT said. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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Ohio Construction Jobs Up, Unemployment Rate Unchanged According to state officials, Ohio’s unemployment rate remained unchanged from April to May of this year; however, the state did see a rise in construction industry employment. Between April and May, Ohio’s unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3 percent—higher than the national rate. The national rate was 3.8 percent in May, which was an improvement from 3.9 percent in April. For both Ohio and national unemployment rates, improvements were made from the last year. In May of 2017, the national unemployment rate was 4.3 percent, while Ohio’s unemployment rate was 5.1 percent.
According to Ohio’s Job and Family Services Department, Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased by 22,600 jobs from April to May. The report indicated job gains in sectors including: trade transportation and utilities, fiancial services, leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, educational and health services and other services. Government employment in Ohio also increased by 2,500 between April and May of this year. Job gains also were reported in construction, manufacturing, mining and logging. In fact, Ohio saw an increase of approximately 6,000 jobs
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ODOT’s I-77 Bridge Replacement Project in Cleveland BRIDGE from page 1
and we had to drive them down another 40 feet. After this we still didn’t have the bridges are built to current design stancapacity. So we had to give it additional dards and can carry heavy loads.” set up/wait time. These are all friction The I-77/I-490 interchange has four pilings and rock was not shown anylevels — level one (lowest level) is I-490 where on the borings. (six lanes of traffic), levels two and three “With these soft soils in the Cleveland are system interchange ramps and level area,” he added, “often you need to give four (top) is I-77. The existing vertical the pilings seven to 10 days to gain clearances between all these levels are capacity. Re-strike tests verify the capacsubstandard. ity. If you wait it out, the piles will typi“We had to ensure the new bridge had cally gain capacity. But we need to prove sufficient vertical clearance to accomit before we can move on and pour the modate replacement of the ramp bridges concrete footer on top of the piling. This at their proper vertical clearance,” said The work will see the current I-77 bridge (one southbound and one northbound 420-ft.-long happened on numerous foundation locaJames Calanni, an ODOT transportation structures, two lanes in each direction) demolished and replaced with a 510-ft.-long bridge tions and has impacted the schedule.” engineer. “So instead of increasing the that has three lanes in each direction. The steel girder erection, with the vertical clearance by 1.5 feet over the challenge posed by the ramp bridges level 3 ramp, we increased the vertical clearance by 6.15 access to the work site will have to come from a lane closure below the new bridge, require the use of large hydraulic feet. This resulted in the profile of I-77 being raised signifi- off I-77.” cranes to do the demolition and removal of the existing steel “Most of the activities for demolition and erection require beams. cantly, but the profile couldn’t be raised too much because we had to meet the profile of the Kingsbury Run bridge to closures of the ramps, and often the closure of I-490,” said “We’ve done difficult projects like this in the past,” said the north and get under the proposed Broadway Avenue Myers, “and there are limited closure periods that must be Myers, “and we’ll get past the challenges on this one.” bridge to the south (and maintain proper vertical clearance). coordinated with special events such as Cavs’ and Indians’ Ruhlin had time to plan the project schedule between the “We had to design girders that were much shallower than games. We also must coordinate operations with an adjacent time of the bid phase and start of the construction. the existing ones,” he added. “To do this, hybrid girders were ODOT project that is underway at the same time — the “We continue to develop plans as we go,” said Myers. used. Hybrid girders use stronger steel for the flanges than Broadway Bridge.” “Baumhoer and Guttman help with a lot of the heavy engiJackie Guttman, Myers’ assistant superintendent, handles the steel used for the web. However, shallower girders typineering planning for the supportive excavation, demolition cally mean larger deflections, so the designer had to adjust a lot of the detailed coordination considerations to schedule and erection. All the engineering work is done in-house and girder size and spacing to meet the design requirements for the work. The team also includes: Greg Eichler, project we have the plans reviewed by an outside engineering firm strength and deflection, in addition to ensuring they did not superintendent; Dustin Shifferly, general labor foreman; for a second check.” Mike Moser, carpenter foreman; Chris Baumhoer, chief raise the I-77 profile too much.” There are currently about 30 construction workers, along Calanni noted that while the hybrid girders are not a new project engineer; Scott Cooper, structural steel superintendwith five plus support staff on site. The major subcontractors ent; Jerry Sloan, pile driver foreman; and Steve Revay, iron concept, they are not used too often because most highway are: Armstrong Steel for reinforcing steel; Karvo for asphalt; bridges do not have the girder depth and clearance chal- worker foreman. Miller Cable for highway lighting; RAR Contracting for Other challenges include the tight workspace. lenges that ODOT faced with this bridge. concrete delivery; Follow the River for SWPPP inspection “The areas to put equipment in are extremely tight,” said “Also, metalizing is not a new concept, but it is not used and erosion controls; A&A Safety for maintenance of traffic Myers, “and we’re having to do a lot of temporary excavatoo frequently because of cost,” he said. “In our case it was more cost effective to metalize the girders in the shop than to tion support in and around the existing structure to allow for and striping; M.P. Dory for traffic signs and sign supports; field paint the girders or shop paint and then field touch-up the construction of the new substructure. It is a challenging and Lake Erie Construction for guard rail. Stupp Bridge fabricated the new steel girders, and they were metalized and the paint. Metallizing is very durable, so it requires a lot less environment with tight constraints.” delivered to site by Ohio Structures. An on-site construction office was set up nearby to help field touch-up than paint does.” Materials removed from the site should total 1,500 tons of The work has impacted traffic year-round as the work pro- manage the day and night work that is ongoing. “We have multiple shifts based on permissible lane clo- steel and 2,000 tons of concrete. New materials should ceeded over the winter; Ruhlin crews temporarily closed some lanes on I-77, as well as ramps at the I-77/I-490 inter- sures,” said Myers. “We try to do most of the work, produc- include 3,000 tons of steel; 7,000 cu. yd. of concrete; and change, in order to accommodate demolition operations dur- tion and substructure work during the day, but a lot of the 16,000 cu. yd. of asphalt. The work site is close to Ruhlin’s shop and mechanics are demolition and steel erection have to happen at night. ODOT ing the winter months. “Through fall 2019, all lanes of I-77 north and southbound is very understanding of the challenges, and they have a sent in as needed to deal with typical wear and tear issues. The crews are using Link-Belt 218 and 138 crawler cranes over I-490 will be shifted in order to accommodate bridge good project team and we’re working together to mitigate for pile driving; an I-19 pile hammer; Cat 336 excavators, the delays. They have a prescribed maintenance of traffic demolition and construction operations,” stated the project web page. “In addition, the Orange Avenue entrance ramp to plan, and they have over a dozen portable message boards one of which is equipped with a Movax SP100 steel pile I-77 southbound is reduced to one lane in order to accommo- throughout the interchange system of Cleveland providing installer; a Komatsu PC228 excavator; a Cat D6 dozer; and a Volvo L120 loader. date bridge demolition and construction operations through advance warning to motorists.” Another unforeseen challenge has been the soil conditions “We’ll be renting large hydraulic cranes for the steel erecfall 2019.” tions and demolitions,” said Myers, “including a Liebbherr Thus far Ruhlin has completed partial demolition of the which affect pile driving. “It has created a delay which might push the project out an LPM 1400 crane to erect the center drop-in girders for the outside parapets and girders from the existing bridge and begun the outside approach roadway work. Piling and sub- additional month,” said Myers. “We’re working with bridge.” structure construction is complete for the Phase 1 portion of ODOT, which is selectively directing us to accelerate by The cranes will be rented from Maxim Crane Works. the project and steel erection is underway for the superstruc- working some overtime in an effort to recover the schedule. Ruhlin purchases its Cat equipment from Ohio Cat and “There are areas where the piling had to be driven deeper piling equipment from HMC. ture. “We removed approximately nine feet off the outside of than anticipated, which required additional set-up periods or Other projects in the Urban Core program include the the existing bridges — one girder line, and then we’ll widen wait time to allow the piling to gain the required capacity,” Opportunity Corridor and Lakefront West initiatives. out the new bridge,” said Mark Myers, Ruhlin’s project man- he added. “We’re driving 16-inch diameter cast-in-place (This story also can be found on Construction ager. “The big challenge is working around the traffic, and pipe piles. Some had to go down 90 feet and when we Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipthe next phase will have us boxed inside the active lanes. All reached that depth, we didn’t have the prescribed bearing mentguide.com.) CEG
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Columbus Opens Learning Center With ‘Smart City’ Message COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s capital wants to get smart — and it’s launched an interactive learning center to get people to buy in. The Smart Columbus Experience Center opened to the public June 30. The showroom-style gallery, located in a reclaimed retail space, debuted with a “smart mobility block party,” featuring electric car test drives, free ride share lifts and bike safety workshops. It’s all part of a $50 million initiative Columbus has undertaken to become a smart city, or one that eases urban life by digitally linking transportation, energy and communication systems. The city won a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge in 2016 and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies contributed another $10 million to the cause. Integrating the transportation, power and data networks that have evolved over time in a city settled more than 200 years ago is no easy task. In fact, it’s still a dream. Columbus won its spot as the testing ground over San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Denver; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Kansas City, Mo. The city’s smart cities team recognizes
that it may be an uphill of about $2 million, battle to get people in the including $200,000 from sprawling metropolitan the federal grant, money area of roughly 2 million allotted in the state capital residents to abandon their budget and private donasingle-occupancy vehicle tions. lifestyles and take up The learning center bikes, carpools, electric will allow people to get cars or ride sharing. close-up with an electric “Our challenge is how car — and test drive one do you harness all these with an appointment — new things going on: the without the worry of sales sharing economy, but also pressure. the carpooling, ride-shar“We won’t be pressuring, micro-transit,” said ing them, because we Mark Patton, vice presihave nothing to sell,” dent of Smart Cities at the Patton said. Columbus Partnership. It will also make learnPhoto courtesy of Julie Carr Smith, AP “We’re not smart enough Items are on display in the Smart Columbus Experience Center in down- ing how smart technology to say here’s how it’s all town Columbus, Ohio. works fun and interactive. going to turn out, but if A two-way communiyou have enough initiatives going on where tric car drives or how a drone works. cation platform that’s being deployed at The learning center serves as the lobby to street corners around Columbus will also be people have a chance to try something new, we think it will make a significant differ- the new Smart Columbus headquarters, on display. Known as Ike, it features a touchwhich will house the both public and private screen that can give directions, provide busience.” That’s where the learning center comes in. smart city employees, as well as program- ness listings and provide public Wi-Fi. Through educational displays, hands-on mers who will maintain the integrated smart (This story also can be found on activities and test drives of electric cars, the city operating system. Construction Equipment Guide’s webPatton said the building upgrade, under site at www.constructionequipmentcenter aims to answer the public’s questions about how a smart grid works, how an elec- way since March, represents an investment guide.com.)
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