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Drivers to See I-16/I-95 Interchange Work for Another Year The project to revamp Savannah, Ga.’s interchange at Interstates 16 and 95 is more than a year from completion, but drivers may start to see bridge work wrap up towards the end of this year, the Savannah Morning News reported earlier in June. The newspaper learned from the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) that the intersection’s finish line has been pushed back a year to late 2023. Last August, GDOT anticipated the completion would likely wrap up by this fall. The scope of the $317 million infrastructure improvement includes widening I-16, adding a new flyover bridge for I-95 northbound drivers, and increasing efficiency and safety at the interchange, particularly as freight trucks continue to account for more than 10 percent of the interchange’s daily volume, the state transportation agency said. Interstate 16 serves as a hurricane evacuation route and is “one of Georgia’s busiest freight corridors as well as the gateway to Georgia’s growing port in Savannah,” GDOT spokesperson Jill Nagel told the Savannah news source. That growth is expected to continue now that $1 billion in improvements are under way at the Savannah River’s port facilities, and the recent harbor deepening project has been completed, allowing for bigger ships to dock. “With the deepening of the [port], more freight traffic is anticipated, and this project allows greater capacity,” Nagel said. Currently, construction of one of three new interchange bridges is almost finished, she added, with it set to open later this year. In total, a dozen bridges and railroad tracks will be improved upon or added as part of the enterprise. In her comments to the Savannah newspaper, Nagel said that segments of the improvement project will be opened to motorists as they are completed. The loop ramps from I-95 southbound to I-16 eastbound, and I-16 westbound to I-95 southbound also are being rebuilt with “partial turbine” configuration ramps to provide safer, smoother merging, she noted. In addition, I-16 will be widened to three lanes between I95 and I-516, and the current lanes are slated to be widened between I-516 and Georgia Highway 307/Dean Forest Road, Nagel explained. Construction to Last Almost Four Years The I-16/I-95 Improvement Project began in 2016 with an environmental process by GDOT before the agency’s chosen developer, Savannah Mobility Contractors (SMC), began the final design of the new interchange in 2018. But it was not until two years later, in the first quarter of 2020, that boots-on-ground construction on the project finally got under way.
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The new design will add a dozen bridges, improved rail tracks and smoother merge lanes.
The project limits along the two interstates are, on I-16, from milepost 156 to milepost 164; and from mileposts 98100 on I-95. Other new upgrades to the freeway interchange include: • A collector-distributor (CD) lane on I-95 northbound to help improve traffic flow and safety to and from both roadways. CD lanes run parallel to the main travel lanes of an interstate or highway, GDOT noted, connecting them to access roads or entrance ramps to improve traffic flow, speed, and safety. • New and improved lighting at the crossing. • The installation of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology, including cameras and changeable message signs to provide real-time driving conditions. • The installation of ramp meters at the Ga. 307/Dean Forest Road and Chatham Parkway on-ramps. • A two-lane, emergency-use median crossover is being constructed on I-16 between I-95 and Ga. 307/Dean Forest Road to aid in evacuations; existing I-16 crossovers will remain in use until the new, two-lane crossover becomes operational. • A series of noise barriers are being erected at various points on the project, according to GDOT. Once it is completed, the I-16/I-95 Improvement Project should allow for 100,000 more vehicles to pass through the interchange every day and is part of the Georgia’s Major Mobility Investment Program (MMIP).
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Construction continues at the 16@95 interchange in Chatham County with substantial completion slated for late 2023.
“The [MMIP] projects were identified in 2016 to improve Georgia’s metro regions by creating additional capacity, [thus] improving freight movement, providing operational improvements and efficiencies, enhancing safety, offering more reliable trip times, and decreasing travel times,” Nagel said.
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GDOT Awards $182.2M for Projects, $50M for Roadwork The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) awarded more than $182.2 million for 17 projects statewide in April, the agency announced May 31. According to the department, 47 percent of the money went to bridge projects, while 44 percent is earmarked for road resurfacing efforts. GDOT allocated the remaining funds, roughly 9 percent of the total, to various safety projects throughout the Peach State. Transportation officials said the most expensive project on the list is a nearly $11.4 million award to Tucker-based Georgia Bridge and Concrete. The contracting firm will build a pair of bridges and approaches on Ga. Highway 23 over Brier Creek and the Brier Creek Overflow in Burke County. The second-largest contract went to C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., in Marietta, for a more than $7 million resurfacing project in Forsyth County. The job includes more than 6.7 mi. of milling, inlay and plant mix resurfacing on Ga. 141 from north of McGinnis Ferry Road to south of Ga. 9. Design-Build Effort Coming to Ga. Highway 400 Separately, in May, GDOT announced that it had distributed approximately $50 million for a design-build project on Ga. 400 to C.W. Matthews and ICE Infrastructure, a consulting and engineering firm in Norcross. A GDOT news release explained that the construction, on what it calls the “SR 400 Express Lanes” project’s first phase “was pulled forward as part of a phased delivery” to add
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express lanes to the thoroughfare. The agency did so to use part of a $184 million U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) INFRA grant. As part of the contract, crews will replace and raise three bridges in Fulton County — over Pitts Road, Roberts Drive and Kimball Bridge Road — to accommodate the future express lanes. Construction of the bridges for Pitts and Kimball Bridge roads will require a traffic detour. Additionally, the bridge structures over the three roadways will include “multi-use paths” under a partnership with the cities of Sandy Springs and Alpharetta. “The new bridges will provide operational and local road improvements in advance of the major express lanes construction,” explained GDOT Design-Build Project Manager Rick O’Hara in the agency statement. “The department was pleased with the number of competitive bids received and looks forward to advancing this important project along a critical corridor in metro Atlanta with the selected designbuild team.” GDOT anticipates construction on the Ga. 400 express lanes/bridge-building project to start in early 2023, with substantial completion likely in 2025. Transportation officials are currently in the process of lining up a developer and are hopeful that one will be chosen in 2023, the agency said in its May press release. That timetable, it acknowledged, is subject to change. According to GDOT data, the agency has let 211 projects in fiscal 2022 valued at more than $1.2 billion. Approximately 47 percent of them are classified as maintenance programs.
Construction Starts On Innovation, Arts Center at Spelman College New York-based Turner Construction Company has begun work on building Spelman College’s Center for Innovation & the Arts (CI&A) in Atlanta, the contractor announced June 27. The 84,000-sq.-ft facility is designed to house Spelman College’s creative and scientific disciplines in one dynamic space, while serving as a catalyst for interdisciplinary interaction. The college also noted in a press release that the new center will bring together a vibrant community of innovators, collaborators, artists, musicians and scientists. “It is great to work with Spelman College on the Center for Innovation & the Arts and help them create a dynamic, state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary learning environment,” said Kevin Jenkins, Turner’s vice president and general manager. The fully funded $75 million development will become home to cutting-edge collaborative programs including the Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab, the Center for Black Entrepreneurship and the Spelman Museum of Art. Spellman to Name Center After Current Leader Earlier in the spring, Spellman College announced that it would name the new
CI&A in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, the 10th, and current, president of the school. The first new academic facility at Spelman in nearly 25 years, the CI&A also will be the first built outside the college’s gates and will serve as what Spellman officials are calling its “front porch,” opening the campus to the Atlanta University Center’s Westside community. As Spelman’s new “front porch,” the CI&A will be a home to the school’s thriving arts programs in dance, documentary filmmaking, photography, theater and performance, and music. In addition, it will house the Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective as well as provide expanded space for the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Innovation Lab: Beating Heart of CI&A At the hub of the new center will be Spelman’s innovation laboratory, the Arthur M. Blank Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, open to all liberal arts disciplines at the college. For the past six years, the technology rich lab space has
been home to award winning, cross disciplinary creative projects, and an incubator of exciting new entrepreneurial ventures, according to an online description on Spelman’s website. The school’s Center for Black Entrepreneurship also is slated to move into the new lab space. “The rapid convergence of art, technology and entrepreneurship, with the liberal arts and sciences, are beginning to yield new solutions to old challenges,” said Campbell.
“This new facility will be a dynamic stateof-the-art learning environment that encourages disciplinary mastery in the arts and helps spur investments and foster growth in the local economy.” The concept for the CI&A began before her tenure as president when she was asked to consult Spelman on how to create integration among campus art programs. After coming out of retirement to take on the role of president in 2015, Campbell announced the formation of a steering committee, led by Ayoka Chenzira, division chair for the arts. Studio Gang, a world-renowned Chicago architectural firm, was selected as the project’s designer for its collaborative design approach and alignment with Spellman’s vision. A private, historically black, women’s liberal arts college, Spelman is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in the Georgia capital city. It was founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Turner Construction photo The fully funded $75 million development will become Baptist Female Seminary. Later, home to cutting-edge collaborative programs including Spelman received its collegiate charthe Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab, the Center for ter in 1924, making it America’s oldBlack Entrepreneurship and the Spelman Museum of est private HBCU liberal arts college for women. Art.
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Construction of New Tower at Gainesville Hospital Begins People living in and around Gainesville, Ga., are one step closer to having improved access to more lifesaving and life-changing care, as Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is preparing to start construction on a new, multi-story tower at its medical facility in the city. The new, 927,000-sq.-ft. structure will be built next to the existing North Patient Tower on the Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Gainesville campus, making the hospital the third largest in the state by bed size. State, local and hospital officials were on hand for the tower’s groundbreaking in March. It is anticipated to open in early 2025. “This new tower is designed with the greater good in mind,” Carol Burrell, president and CEO of NGHS, explained in a statement posted on the hospital’s website. “Our community is at the heart of every decision we’ve made along the way and has kept us moving forward, especially during the past two years. As you can imagine, COVID drastically changed the way we think about delivering care to our patients and has allowed us to apply lessons we have learned to the new tower design.” To illustrate her point, she noted that dur-
ing the pandemic, NGHS’ Plant Operations team and contractors manually converted regular patient rooms into negative-pressure rooms, a creative solution to help prevent airborne viruses from spreading, and one that likely saved lives. Unfortunately, though, the rigged ventilation systems often made the rooms loud, hot and uncomfortable. But that experience led the tower’s architects to design its patient rooms in a manner where they can more easily be converted to negative pressure when needed. “As proud advocates for high quality health care in the communities we serve, we are excited about how this tower will provide improved access and advanced treatments,” said state Rep. Lee Hawkins, dean of Hall County’s local delegation in the Georgia General Assembly. “Our region is blessed to have a thriving, independent health system like NGHS that is governed by volunteer board leaders who live and work in his community, which is increasingly rare in our state and nation.” New Tower Designed to Include Many Upgrades NGHS noted in its announcement that the new tower will pave the way for several
expected improvements, including: • Moving the hospital’s existing Emergency Department (ED) to the ground floor of the new tower and expanding the department to care for more people quickly and efficiently. • Bringing together heart and vascular services provided by the Georgia Heart Institute, including diagnostic testing, cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery so heart patients and families will experience more seamless care. • Constructing a new helipad on the tower’s roof to increase the speed and efficiency needed to support life-saving trauma, heart, stroke and surgical care. • Expanding access to the Gainesville facility’s comprehensive stroke center, cranial surgery and all levels of inpatient care for neurology patients. • Adding more operating rooms to expand available surgeries and procedures as well as providing more than 150 new beds for inpatient care. • Building a parking deck with hundreds of new parking spaces for patients and visitors. • Creating an opportunity for future renovation of the South Tower. • Extending the existing Wilheit-Keys
The new, 927,000-sq.-ft. structure will be built next to the existing North Patient Tower on the Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Gainesville campus, making the hospital the third largest in the state by bed size.
Peace Garden and creating additional greenspaces to provide outdoor areas for gathering and reflecting. Deepak Aggarwal, NGHS’ chief of medical staff, said on the health system’s website, “The project team spent a lot of time talking to physicians, nurses and other clinical staff to design a place that would streamline care for our patients. The added beds will help meet the demand of our growing population and having more operating and procedure rooms to serve their needs is vital as well.” As Gainesville-Hall County’s top employer and a good steward of resources, NGHS said it is committed to using local labor from the region and state as much as possible — with as many as 2,000 workers on-site at any time to make the tower a reality. “Over the next two years, it will be virtually impossible to miss this tower coming out of the ground,” said Spence Price, NGHS board chair. “This campus is going to be transformed, and the economic and health impacts will be significant for our region.” Larger ED Space Will Have Many Benefits The ED at the Gainesville hospital is consistently one of the five busiest in Georgia, according to NGHS. Moving it to the reimagined space in the new tower should lead to shorter wait times for patients and an improved working environment for physicians and staff. “We have needed new space for a while, and I’m grateful that we are one step closer to that reality,” said Mohak Dave՛ of emergency medicine of the health system. “We have been able to design the space around new workflows borne out of the pandemic and other experiences to make an emergency visit more efficient for patients, physicians and staff.” the work of the NGHS Foundation, the new ED also will include space dedicated to treating pediatric patients. When building is complete, that section of the department will be named in honor of Buddy Langston, a longtime pediatrician in the Gainesville community. Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a non-profit on a mission of improving the health of the residents in that part of the state, caring for more than one million people across the region through four hospitals and a variety of outpatient locations. addition to its Gainesville medical facility, Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has campuses in Braselton, Winder and Dahlonega, with a total of more than 700 beds, and 1,100 medical staff members trained in more than 60 specialties.
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