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I-35 Northeast Expansion Central Project Steams Ahead Alamo NEX Construction LLC, a joint venture of Ferrovial Construction and Webber LLC, is approximately a year away from completing the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $1.5 billion Interstate 35 Northeast Expansion Central Project in the San Antonio area. The design-build project, part of the Texas Clear Lanes Initiative, began in June 2022 and covers 9.5 mi. of I-35 from Interstate 410 N to Farm-to-Market 3009 through northeast San Antonio, Live Oak, Selma and Schertz in Bexar and Guadalupe counties. Construction Equipment Guide first reported on the megaproject in February 2024. Since then, construction has advanced steadily, with crews recently placing their 4,000th girder. About 85 percent of the project’s precast elements also are complete, while 84 percent of the elevated structures constructed. The project includes elevated managed lanes between the existing main lanes and frontage roads, eight bridges and reconstruction and widening of the Loop 1604 general-purpose lanes and bridges. The elevated I-35 lanes will provide direct connections to I-410 North and Loop 1604 West. “The project scope of work consists of construction of elevated managed lanes between the existing main lanes and frontage roads and eight bridges and the reconstruction and widening of the Loop 1604 general purpose lanes and bridges,” Ferrovial said in a statement. “It includes more than 800 spans of bridge construction, 4,500 concrete beams, 31 million pounds of steel girders and 6 million square feet of bridge decks.”
By Irwin Rapoport
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Bridge Work Drives Construction The first two years of the project were focused largely on establishing the foundations needed for the elevated structures and opening work areas for bridge construction. “Most of the substructures and/or foundational work and the elevated lane structures were dealt with,” Felix Martin, CEO project director for Alamo NEX Construction told Construction Equipment Guide. “For the first two years, the focus was to begin opening up work areas for the bridge work to begin. Most of the activities were related to the bridge foundations followed by the column construction.” see INTERSTATE page 14
The design-build project, part of the Texas Clear Lanes Initiative, began in June 2022 and covers 9.5 mi. of I-35 from Interstate 410 N to Farm-to-Market 3009.
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