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ODOT’s $116M South Side Mega Fix to Complete Next Spring
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“Once we get to a rough grade, we cement stabilize and fine grade it, and then put a cure on it. It’s a five-day cure for the cement and with that, there is a lot of planning,” said Tim Cunningham, S&S’s project manager.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) two-phase, $166 million South Side Mega Fix project in Columbus, an initiative awarded to Shelly & Sands Inc. (S&S), will be delivered in April/May 2021. The $126 million project is reconstructing and adding a lane in each direction on I-71 between Stringtown Road and I-70; reconfiguring the I-270/71 southbound interchange; replacing 10 bridges and erecting two new ones; and building three noise walls. “A project of this scale can seem unending at times, but we are nearing the finish line,” said Breanna Badanes, ODOT’s public information officer of Central Ohio. Tim Cunningham, S&S’s project manager is very satisfied with the progress of the work, which was temporarily impacted by COVID-19, which led to several hundred bridge and wall crew members being laid off for 30 days. “Right now, we’ve got a completion date
“The soils have been fairly decent — they’re rocky and not a lot of bad soils surprisingly as about two miles pass in a flood plain,” said Ohio Department of Cunningham. “Four times in the last Transportation photo three years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put up the flood gates as part of the city’s flood protection and twice the I-71 northbound and southbound have been shut down in the middle of the project due to flooding at the top of the intersection.” Peak days had up to 120 S&S and subcontractor employees on-site, with between 35 and 50 currently. They have accomplished many Project 2, $126 million, is reconstructing and adding a lane in each direction on I-71 benchmarks, such as completing all between Stringtown Road and I-70; reconfiguring the I-270/71 southbound interchange; 12 bridges; six retaining walls; miles replacing 10 bridges and erecting two new ones; and building three noise walls. of new lanes and reconstruction of existing ones; and other structures. for the end of year, however, due to specifi- continuously since 2018. This project has Equipment, heavy and light, has been cation restrictions and not being able to lay required a lot of double shifts. Over the essential and key pieces have been cranes for top course asphalt through the inclement three-year period, starting in 2017, it has the bridges and dozers and trackhoes for the weather, that has pushed our scheduling to probably been 60 percent 24/7 work.” excavation. next spring,” said Cunningham. “We’ve The work area encompasses 13 lane mi. see FIX page 2 been on a seven-day work week schedule of highway, including six on I-71.