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May 12 2019 Vol. IX • No. 10
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It’s Smooth Sailing on $1B Ship Channel Bridge By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Patients Become ‘The Boss’ at Construction vs. Cancer...20
Bobcat of Midland-Odessa Celebrates at New Facility...36
Harris County Tollway Road Authority photo
One year after the March 2018 start date on Houston’s new $1 billion Ship Channel Bridge, workers have finished the drill shaft foundation for the southern main pylon, and were just two weeks away from completing the main northern pylon. “There’s not much to see right now,” said Matt of reinforcement Kainer, maintenance and Installation for a southbound North construction engineering approach pier footing. assistant director of the Harris County Toll Road Authority. “But we’re working towards it. It will ultimately be the southbound lanes built first next to the existing bridge, then we’ll shift traffic to the new bridge, demolish the existing bridge, then build the other half right next to it. The first part is to construct the foundation for two main pylons. It’s taken us about a year to do those just because they are so numerous, so large and so deep. On the approaches, we are actually out of the ground and have columns and caps coming up on the north approach.”
Harris County Tollway Road Authority photo
Drilled shaft installation for a southbound main span pier.
see HOUSTON page 70
JR Ramone, OilQuick Meet Deadline With Time to Spare...54
Table of Contents.............4 California Section.....19-24 Paving Section ..........37-48 Attachment Section..53-69 Auction Section ........76-83 Business Calendar..........76 Advertisers Index...........82
ODOT’s $42M Sallisaw Project Under Way By Romona Paden CEG CORRESPONDENT
With the kickoff of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s interchange improvements in Sallisaw, so began the highest-dollar project in ODOT’s eastern central district, also known as Division 1. The $42 million project, awarded to Sherwood Construction of Tulsa, includes bridge rehabilitation and replacements as well as surface and interchange work. The undertaking, which began in midJanuary, is slated for completion in early 2021.
Specific elements of ODOT’s Sallisaw project include the replacement of 10 bridges, three of which experts deem as structurally deficient.
Sallisaw, the county seat of Sequoyah County, sits at the junction of State Highways 64 and 59,
nestled between Sallisaw Creek and Little Sallisaw Creek on the southern edge of the Ozark
Plateau. The state line into Arkansas sits 20 mi. to the east of Sallisaw and Interstate 40 crosses the city’s south side. Construction work runs along the nearly 3-mi. corridor on I-40 from the U.S.-64 interchange toward the east end of Sallisaw to the U.S.-59 junction in an effort to eliminate congestion. Specific elements include the replacement of 10 bridges, three of which experts deem as structurally deficient. The state defines structurally deficient as those bridges with “key elements that need to be see ODOT page 32