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October 30 2016 Vol. I • No. 22
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‘Bertha’ Reaches Half-Way Point on Alaskan Way Project By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Three years after the tunneling machine dubbed “Bertha” began work on a 2-mi. (3.2 km) tunnel beneath the city of Seattle, the machine has passed the half-way point. Bertha pushed past the Pike Place Market on Sept. 30, successfully excavating more than 4,635 ft. (1,413 m) of the 9,270-ft. (2,825 m) tunnel, said Washington Department of Transportation spokeswoman Laura Newborn. The tunnel will replace the Alaska Way Viaduct, an elevated double-deck road that is part of state Route 99 and an important corridor through Seattle. Built in the 1950s, the viaduct sustained damage in a 2001 earthquake. In 2009, the Washington State Legislature agreed to replace the viaduct with the tunnel. In 2011, the southern mile of the viaduct was demolished and replaced with new roadway.
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Looking south at the SR 99 tunnel from the back end of the SR 99 tunneling machine on May 12, 2016. From this viewpoint, you can see that the tunnel takes a slight westward turn as it heads under downtown Seattle near Yesler Way.
WSDOT awarded Seattle Tunnel Partners a $1.35 billion contract to design and build the tunnel, which includes a doubledeck highway inside the tunnel, tunnel entrances and exits and two tunnel operations buildings. The price tag for the entire Alaskan Way Viaduct project is $3.1 billion. Much of the progress has been made in the past five months with the machine tunneling more than 3,000 ft. (914 m) since a planned maintenance stop in April, according to a press release from WSDOT. “Bertha has been steadily on the move and made her way to the second half of the tunnel,” said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. “This is good progress and I appreciate everyone’s focus on making sure we safely complete this project.” The tunneling has not always gone so smoothly. In December 2013, work on the tunnel came to halt after high temperatures were see MACHINE page 6
New HQ for Idaho State Police’s District 5 Under Way By Andrea Watts CEG CORRESPONDENT
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Idaho-Falls general contractor Barry Hayes Construction LLC was awarded the bid to build the 23,300 sq. ft. (2,165 sq m) facility.
The Idaho State Police’s District 5 is one of two districts that doesn’t have all its divisions combined into one facility, but not for long. Construction of a new 23,300 sq. ft. (2,165 sq m) facility in Pocatello, Idaho, is under way, and following its grand opening in May 2017, the district will be able to deliver improved service to the public and foster a more cohesive team environment for its staff. “Everybody is excited about mov-
ing into a new facility with its stateof-the-art laboratory,” said Captain Eric Dayley, commander of the Patrol and Investigations Divisions of District 5. District 5’s divisions — patrol, forensics services and investigations, along with peace officer standards and training — are currently located in three leased buildings spread across Pocatello. Over the years, the working spaces have been cobbled together to accommodate the district’s staff and equipment, which hasn’t resulted in ideal working conditions.
Dayley and his staff are located in a leased space within an Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) building and in leased space in the Garrett Freightlines Building, while the forensic lab is housed in the former city hall that was built during the 1950s. With its refrigerator unit downstairs and the sample processing area upstairs, forensics lab staff have to travel between floors to perform their work. “It’s not the best working environment for what our lab staff do,” Dayley explained. “It’s really tight see POLICE page 4
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New Police HQ Will House All Divisions Under One Roof POLICE from page 1
quarters and I even need someone to escort me around every time I go through there because it’s a labyrinth with twists and turns.” Although the need for a new combined facility was recognized nearly 10 years ago, the recession put its construction on hiatus until the economy recovered. And when the economy did recover, District 6 was actually higher on the priority list to receive a new facility; however, Dayley said that District 5’s unsuitable lab space moved it to the top of the list. In 2015 the legislature approved an exploratory design phase, authorizing $600,000 to design the building, and the following year, they approved the remaining $5.4 million required for the construction. Dayley credits the ITD for being a great partner in enabling the facility to be constructed. “They donated the land to us so that cut costs,” he said. “It’s just really been a great thing and people have done a lot to make this happen.” Boise-based CSHQA and Pocatello-based JHS Architects were awarded the bid to design the new building, and Dayley and his team had several meetings with the architects to provide input on the design. “They were very good to work with. Although they had some misconceptions about how law enforcement runs, we just explained our needs and they designed around our specifications.” One of these specifications was having the evidence processing room accessible immediately
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Construction of the new headquarters for Idaho State Police’s District 5 in Pocatello is on schedule, and its grand-opening is scheduled for May 2017.
through the back door and including a drug room in the evidence room that could be vented. What Dayley is particularly pleased about in the final design is the district finally having its own training room. Right now we don’t have a training room; we have to borrow from other agencies around the city, and I anticipate the room also being available to other groups who would host events that are related to traffic safety, he explained Other facility features include a conference room, break area, exercise room, secured parking and a secured outbuilding to house larger
pieces of evidence. The new facility won’t be located far from the current building that Dayley works in, and he said that it’s a good site because they will share the campus with ITD. “The patrol division works closely with the transportation department,” he explained. “I wouldn’t want to be far from them because we do coordinate many things, such as traffic issues, crashes, and winter maintenance, with them and it’s great to have that face-to-face contact and be able to resolve issues that come up and plan for future things.” Idaho-Falls general contractor
Barry Hayes Construction LLC was awarded the bid. Dayley said that the building’s footings and foundation have been poured, adding “we’re seeing progress so we’re excited.” A construction observation report by the Idaho Division of Public Works on August 10 reported that completing the backfilled work is under way and that the “surfaces below the slabs are being compacted.” Masons are also “installing concrete masonry units for the walls in several places and are installing the blocks in six section lifts.” Other progress notes include the underslab plumbing rough-in work
being nearly completed, and the electrical contractor is installing the rough-in conduits. Dayley expects that public will reap the greatest benefits with the new combined facility by being able to visit one facility to conduct business. “What’s happening now is people will Google search Idaho State Police and the first one that comes up is investigations or forensics. Then they drive to that office and say they’re here to pick up a motor collision report and then be told they’re at the wrong place. They have to drive across town to the patrol office and pick see POLICE page 10
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The total cost of the headquarters was $6 million, and the Boise-based CSHQA and Pocatello-based JHS Architects were awarded the bid to design the new headquarters.
Masons are on site installing the concrete masonry units in several areas for the walls.
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registered on the tunneling machine. A little more than 1,000 ft. (304 m) had been excavated at the time. It was determined there was damage to the seal system on the machine. The manufacturer, Hitachi Zosen chose to repair the machine from the surface, requiring construction of an 80-ft. (24 m) wide, 120-ft. (36.5 m)-deep access pit in a work zone west of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Between March and August 2015, Hitachi Zosen installed a re-designed seal system and made additional repairs to the machine, then lowered the front end back into the ground. In December 2015, STP refilled the access pit and again began tunnel-
ing. Bertha is now about 190 ft. (58 m) below First Avenue between Pike and Pine Streets, according to WSDOT. Crews will continue mining for a short time and then stop for about a month to perform planned maintenance. “While STP’s crews are making progress, they are also taking time for routine maintenance to help ensure the machine successfully completes the tunnel drive,” WSDOT said. “Like previous maintenance stops, crews will use the upcoming stop to inspect machine components and replace cutterhead tools in hyperbaric conditions. STP expects this round of see MACHINE page 8
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Load master Thomas Nixon watches closely as excavated tunnel material, known as muck, traverses the final feet of a conveyor system that reaches all the way to Bertha’s front end.
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In this June 2016 photo, crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners clean the surface of the SR 99 tunnel in Seattle as they prepare to pour the concrete that will flatten the bottom slope of the tunnel. Engineers call this the invert slab, and it provides a better foundation for vehicles and for construction of the roadway inside the tunnel.
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A specially designed truck carries the next 10 tunnel liner segments – one ring’s worth – into the SR 99 tunnel. That’s a 360,000-lb. (176,901 kg) load.
Crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners build the rebar cage for a section of the west wall of the future roadway in the SR 99 tunnel in Seattle.
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This August 2016 photo shows completed sections of the SR 99 tunnel’s top, southbound roadway deck. Crews are building the double-decked roadway behind Bertha, the SR tunneling machine.
Crews Build Road Behind SR 99 Tunneling Machine MACHINE from page 6
maintenance to last approximately one month, but it could take more or less time depending on the extent of work needed.” The two-year delay has prompted WSDOT to request an additional $60 million from the state legislature for the 20172019 budget cycle to continue progress on the project. The team has completed 21 of 31 projects in the viaduct replacement plan that will reshape SR 99. Five additional projects are under way and five more are in the planning stages. The “finish line” is a 90-ft. (27 m)-deep receiving pit at the north end of downtown Seattle and, along with many other aspects of tunnel portals, is largely complete, WSDOT said. Future contractors will make
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In late December 2012, representatives of WSDOT and Seattle Tunnel Partners were on hand in Japan to officially accept the machine from its manufacturers, Hitachi Zosen.
the final connections to the highway, but several of the ramps and roadways into and out of the tunnel are already in place. “This program turned a corner earlier this year,” said Secretary of Transportation Roger Millar. “We’re now closer to the end of the tunnel than we are to the beginning, and everyone on the team is working toward the day when the machine comes out on the other side.” The most recent schedule calls for tunneling to wrap up in the summer of 2017. “Work to complete the tunnel’s interior structures, along with installing and testing systems should be finished by late 2018. Based on STP’s schedule, WSDOT estimates the tunnel would open to traffic in early 2019 when crews finish connecting the tunnel to the existing SR 99 roadways.” Some other facts about the project, courtesy WSDOT: • At 57.5 ft. (17.5 m) in diameter, Bertha was the largest tunnel boring machine in the world until a slightly larger machine built part of an undersea tunnel in Hong Kong. • The inside diameter of the tunnel is 52 ft. (15.8 m), big enough to support a doubledeck roadway inside. • The bored portion of SR 99 tunnel is 1.7 mi. (2.7 km) long. Cut and cover construction at both ends brings the tunnel length to 2 mi. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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Another phase of the construction involves tunneling under the main roadway, and the installation of a large trench box will ensure the crews can dig safely under the roadway. POLICE from page 4
up the report there.” Yet not only will the public benefit with a combined facility. Dayley sees a greater exchange of ideas made possible because the district’s 45 employees will all be in the same building. “I think there will be a greater exchange of information and ideas because it’s just a lot better to pass someone in the hallway and speak with them [rather than a phone call or email]. You can build relationships when
you’re in the same building.” The facility was designed to accommodate additional employees if the District expands its staffing levels, and once the facility is completed. Dayley said, “I think people will have pride in the building. If you look at the artist’s conceptions, it’s a beautiful building. I think we’ve spent the people’s money wisely.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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