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Lane, Security Paving Perform $929M Job On I-10 By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Phase 1 of the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority’s (SBCTA) $929.2 million Interstate 10 Corridor Project began in September 2018 and is expected to be completed in early 2024. The work is being conducted by a jointventure that brings together the Lane Construction Corporation and Security Paving Company Inc. SBCTA’s Interstate 10 Corridor Project is comprised of three phases of improvements to benefit the movement of both people and goods that is important to both San Bernardino County residents and to the local and national economy. The first phase, stretching 10 mi. from the Los Angeles County line to I-15, is currently under construction. The second phase, stretching 11.1 mi. from I-15 to Pepper Avenue in Colton, is in design and the final funding components are being sought to enable construction to begin in 2024. The third and final future phase of 12 mi. will be from Pepper Avenue to Ford Street in Redlands. Phase 1, a design-build contract, has a single new lane being constructed and is being combined with the existing HOV lane to provide two tolled express lanes in each direction. Lanes to assist drivers getting on and off the freeway (auxiliary lanes) are being constructed in selected locations, and 18 bridges throughout the corridor will either be replaced, widened or improved to accommodate the widening of the freeway. In Phase 2, a single toll express lanes will be constructed where there are currently no HOV lanes. Crews Making Progress “Traffic phasing to support the construction, while maintaining existing traffic lanes was our biggest hurdle to overcome,” said the JV’s project’s spokesperson. “The lifespan varies depending on the element or part of the infrastructure you are asking about. It is between 25 to 100 years. We’re
Crews from Lane Construction Corporation and Security Paving Company Inc. are executing massive upgrades on I-10 as part of the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority’s (SBCTA) $929.2 million Interstate 10 Corridor Project.
using Caltrans standard design criteria in regard to seismic activity.” The work is immense and JV crews are constructing 11 mi. of two express lanes in each direction of I-10 from the Los Angeles/San Bernardino County line to east of the I10/I-15 interchange. As far as the 18 bridges, crews are replacing eight, widening eight and improving two. Partial pavement rehabilitation is also being done.
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JV Overcomes Tight Spaces to Complete Phase of Project
The JV has completed the Sultana Avenue Overpass, two Holt Boulevard underpass widenings, the Day Canyon Channel, multiple other bridge phases, multiple walls, ramp reconfigurations and I-10 pavement replacement/widenings all throughout the corridor. CORRIDOR from page 1
So far, the JV has completed the following: Sultana Avenue Overpass, two Holt Boulevard underpass widenings, the Day Canyon Channel, multiple other bridge phases, multiple walls, ramp reconfigurations and I-10 pavement replacement/widenings all throughout the corridor. Over the next 12 months, efforts will focus on completing the remaining bridges/bridge phasing, walls and getting to the final stage of the project. Traffic is a major challenge. “The travel speed of vehicles through the work zone have led to several incidents to both the traveling public and workforce,” said the project spokesperson. “Several modifications and increased police enforcement have been put in place to help slow traffic to construction work zone speeds. Global supply chain constraints, which are still ongoing, have hindered the work. It’s a great project team and work force, that continues to put over a million dollars of work in place every day despite the challenges.” The work has crews working both day and night, spread across the full scope of work area and more than three dozen full weekend closures for pavement replacement. “It’s a tight corridor and we are utilizing every square inch of space we can, along with off-site properties to support construction,” said the project spokesperson. “Utilities are a constant challenge to maintain and/or relocate during construction. The SBCTA and Caltrans team is co-located to help maximize communications and minimize project impacts.” The bridge construction is pressing forward. “The work is generally typical construction, but with the tight corridor, the work is split up into multiple phases to maintain traffic,” said the project spokesperson. “The constraints that led to the phasing of traffic in conjunction with the widening needs, both wall work and paving, prolongs
most of the bridge work, where at times it appears work has come to a halt. The average overcrossing is more than 200 feet and under crossing approximately 50 feet. The lanes above or below vary between two and six.” Crews are working on both ends simultaneously and usually access to the center bent requires a traffic shift for access. Falsework is an essential element for all the bridge construction. The work involves a combination of prefabricated concrete pieces and pour-in-place, with the majority of components being prefabricated. “Completing a bridge can take a few months to a couple years depending on the bridge and its phasing around other work,” said the project spokesperson. The road work is based on conventional and normal construction practices, based on the multiple phases of work. “The challenges are phased work to accommodate traffic and lane closure constraints,” said the project spokesperson. “We are crushing the existing concrete demo for reuse as backfill where feasible and reusing the excavated soils in backfill areas as well. Stockpiled material is either being reused in later stages or removed from the site. Where feasible, the soils are moved from cuts to fills in the same shift.” Earthwork crews are pressing forward ahead of the site prep and road installation crews where necessary. The JV is working on one side of I-10 first and then going to the other to execute the project. “Where we are not constrained by traffic phasing we are working on both sides,” the spokesperson said. “Concrete lanes are being built on the interstate and asphalt lanes on local roads. Some stretches of lanes are done in a 55-hour weekend, while others are done over the course of days, weeks or months depending on the area. The scope to complete full stretches, full width occurs over years/spanning all construction phases.” see CORRIDOR page 8
The dimensions of the roads in terms of subbase, base and concrete are various, but the existing subbase is reused, with a 3-in. bond breaker and approximately 12-in. of concrete.
Over the next 12 months, efforts will focus on completing the remaining bridges/bridge phasing, walls and getting to the final stage of the project.
Interstate 10 Corridor Project consists of three phases of improvements to benefit the movement of both people and goods.
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Project Calls for Crews to Manufacture Concrete Onsite CORRIDOR from page 4
The dimensions of the roads in terms of subbase, base and concrete are various but generally on the interstate, the existing subbase is reused, with a 3-in. bond breaker and approximately 12-in. of concrete. “The curing of the concrete varies from 4-to-10 hours to 7-to-28 days depending on the mix used for the different phased work as to when it gets turned back over to traffic,” said the project spokesperson. “We are making the concrete onsite.” Need for Upgrades “Together, these express/managed lanes will open up a new opportunity to provide travel time incentives to transit, shared-ride vehicles and zero-emission vehicles,” states the SBCTA. “Phase 2 also will construct three strategic eastbound (EB) auxiliary lanes and one westbound (WB) auxiliary lane to improve truck operations and safety. The I-10/I15 interchange is ranked the 9th most critical truck bottleneck in the U.S. by the American Transportation Research Institute, and these improvements will help to relieve congestion in the vicinity of that interchange.” The I-10 Corridor serves on average 265,000 daily local, commuter and interstate travelers, and is a critical link within the Inland Empire. It also serves as a major trucking route between Southern California and the rest of the country. Tim Watkins, chief of legislative and public affairs of SBCTA, stressed the importance of the Phase 1 work. “It will improve travel time within the corridor, relieve congestion and improve traffic flow on the regional trans-
Part of the project involves 18 bridges. Crews are replacing eight, widening eight and improving two. Partial pavement rehabilitation also is being done.
portation system and provide travel time savings and trip reliability for all who use the I-10,” he said. “San Bernardino County is expected to grow by more than a half million people — and a quarter million jobs — over the next 25 years. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the number of vehicles registered in San Bernardino County will grow by 370,000 during this time, all traveling on virtually the same roads and highways we have today. Growth forecasts in the 2016 RTP/Sustainable Communities Strategy show that for cities along this first phase of the I-10 Corridor Project (Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, and Upland), population will grow by 38 percent between 2012
and 2040, and employment will grow by 54 percent.” Phase 1, stretching from the Los Angeles county line to Interstate 15, is costing $929.2 million in total, with $491.8 million from the federal government, $286.5 million from the state,and $150.9 million from local sources, including Measure I sources. The construction cost is $672.9 million. Watkins added that “a significant portion of the federal and local funding is being recovered by future user fees associated with the new lanes.” In addition to constructing the new Express Lanes, the project is also using state resources to rehabilitate the aging concrete in the general purpose lanes throughout the corridor. Approval of the final environmental document was secured in July 2017 and the Lane Construction/Security Paving Joint Venture secured the design/build contract in August 2018. The work is having a major impact on traffic and includes ramp closures, traffic shifts and nighttime closures. “Please be aware and use caution throughout the corridor as workers and heavy equipment are present,” said Watkins. “A weekly construction alert is available to inform motorists on how to manage detours and/or closures within the corridor and when and where they will occur. As always, safety for both the motoring public and the men and women working on the project is critically important.” The road work and infrastructure was designed by Michael Baker International as part of the Design Build Contract team. (All photos courtesy of SBCTA) CEG
Caltrans’ Safe System Will Protect Construction Workers Building on its longstanding commitment to safety, Caltrans is unveiling a new Director’s Policy on Road Safety, which commits the department to the Safe System approach and reaffirms the vision of reaching zero fatalities and serious injuries on state highways by 2050. “Caltrans is fully committing to a fundamental shift in road safety and is laying the framework for significant reductions in roadway deaths and injuries,” Caltrans Director Toks Omishakin. “We play an important role in the building and maintaining of the state’s highways. With the numbers of serious injuries and deaths trending the wrong way, now is the time to focus even more on what we can do to save lives and work collaboratively with other stakeholders who play a role in roadway safety.” California and the rest of the nation are seeing an increase in fatalities and serious injuries on the roadways. In California, more than 3,600 people die each year in traffic crashes and more than 13,000 people are severely injured. More than 3,200 people died on the state’s roadways in the first nine months of 2021 — a 17 percent increase from the previous year. To address this trend, Caltrans is aligning departmental activities, as appropriate, with
the Safe System approach, which identifies several interconnected elements to achieving a vision of zero fatalities and serious injuries — safe road users, safe roads, safe speeds, safe vehicles and post-crash care. As part of this policy, Caltrans commits to: • Prioritizing “safety first” in highway planning, operation, construction and maintenance; • Focusing on eliminating the most serious crashes, rather than all crashes; • Eliminating race-, age-, ability- and transportation mode-based disparities in road safety outcomes by addressing historic and current barriers to transportation access and safety. This policy takes steps to further institutionalize a shift that began in 2020, as state transportation leaders recognized a bolder and more focused approach was necessary to combat the troubling rise in fatalities and serious injuries on California roads. The state’s 2020-24 Strategic Highway Safety Plan — managed by Caltrans and involving more than 400 stakeholders — was updated to include the Safe System approach. This policy also aligns with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Safety Strategy released earlier in 2022, which set the first national goal of zero
roadway fatalities and recognizes the Safe System approach as encompassing a range of roadway safety programs and stakeholders. “The U.S. Department of Transportation has adopted the Safe System Approach that guides our safety actions within the recently announced National Roadway Safety Strategy to address the national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries,” said Stephanie Pollack, deputy federal highway administrator. “We commend Caltrans for adopting this approach and working to bend the curve on roadway fatalities to zero.” The Safe System approach is based on the following principles: • Eliminate death and serious injury: While no crashes are desirable, the Safe System approach prioritizes addressing crashes that result in death and serious injuries. • Humans make mistakes: People on the road will inevitably make mistakes that can lead to crashes. The transportation system is designed and operated to accommodate human mistakes and injury tolerances, and avoid deaths and serious injuries. • Humans are vulnerable: Crash forces contribute to deaths and serious injuries.
Minimizing speeds and impact angles reduces the risk of death and serious injuries. • Responsibility is shared: All stakeholders, including road users, vehicle manufacturers, policy makers, law enforcement, licensing and education entities, those in road design and maintenance, and others must commit to working together to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes to zero. No one entity can achieve this goal alone, and it will take the coordinated effort of stakeholders working across a variety of disciplines to improve safety outcomes. • Redundancy is crucial: Reducing risk requires that all parts of the transportation system are strengthened, so that if one element fails, there are still multiple layers of protection. • Safety is proactive and reactive: Through both proactive and reactive safety efforts such as road safety audits, traffic investigations, road monitoring, flexible design, and others help identify potential areas for safety enhancement to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes. For more information, visit https://dot.ca.gov/programs/safety-programs.
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Nixon-Egli Equipment Hosts 2022 Summer Kick-Off Event
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he Southern California Contractors Association (SCCA) held its 2022 Membership Summer Kick-Off at Nixon-Egli Equipment on June 18 in Ontario, Calif. This was the largest membership event of the year and was attended by approximately 150 people affiliated with the construction industry, including contractors, equipment dealers and industries that serve the competitive southern California construction community. The Membership Summer Kick-Off offered prospective members a unique networking opportunity at a relaxed and enjoyable event. The event offered these prospective members a look into the reasons companies obtain membership with SCCA. Some of those benefits include labor relations, legislative & regulatory advocacy, legal resources, safety resources, educational seminars/programs and industry events and business networking events like the Membership Summer Kick-Off. About SCCA Since its establishment in 1974, Southern California Contractors Association (SCCA) is volunteered-led and is governed by members comprised of union-affiliated contractor businesses and affiliate construction industry service providers. SCCA was established to maintain high professional standards among construction contractors by encouraging sound business methods, efficiency and cooperation between contractors, raising the industry standard. CEG
Nixon-Egli Equipment is the California dealer for the full line of Wirtgen products. Raul Deyden of Wirtgen was there to discuss all that the line provides.
(L-R): SCCA board members John Cooper, labor relations coordinator; Brad Kimball, executive vice president; and Paul Marshall of Veterans Engineering Services.
Cameron Heckman of Nixon-Egli Equipment and Britnee Heckman of Scott Equipment enjoying the evening.
Aaron Whittet hosts the B2W booth
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Warrior Machinery representatives John Blitz (C) and Mickey Kolitz (R) talking about LiuGong with Craig Fish of Marina Landscape, one of California’s largest independent landscape construction firms.
(L-R): John Anglemyer of Anglemyer Crane Rental talks with Gavin Singleton and Luis Ramirez, both of NixonEgli Equipment.
(L-R): Withum representatives Roxana RamirezLomeli, Kerry Berekoff and Adrian Glickman enjoy the event.
Dan Hirsh (L) and John M. Gasparo of Security Paving Company Inc.
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Chris Trull (L) and Ray Alacantara of G3 Quality Inc.
(L-R): Hosts of the evening from Nixon-Egli Equipment James Nixon, Greg Schmidt, Shari Sendejo and Kevin Hague.
Gregg Bullock (L) and Mike Geosano of OSTS Inc. (Occupational Safety Training Systems) discuss OSHA requirements and training that OSTS can provide.
The end of the evening overhead shot of the attendees. (L-R): Nathan Elfring, Omar Uribe, Steve Stanage, Jon White, Kurt Pfeiffer and Davey Ogier, all of KEC Engineering.
Downs Energy’s Brian Henderson (L) and Jonathan Francisco talk about ways to “fuel your business.”
(L-R): Gavin Singleton and Dave Heitmiller of NixonEgli Equipment talk with Daryl Endres, district service representative of Link-Belt Cranes.
The Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers booth was hosted by (L-R) Shelton Champion, Gregory DeNobrega, Jason Rodriguez and Brent Bjornstad.
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