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December 24 2017 Vol. IX • No. 26
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Wyoming YMCA Builds $22M Aquatic Center...2
Work Complete at I-76/U.S. 85 in Henderson, Colo. ...8
Crews Top Out Port of Long Beach Bridge...37
Table of Contents ................4 Mini & Compact Equipment Section ..........................13-23 California Section ........37-42 Paving Section..............43-51 Auction Section ............56-61
Colorado’s Express Lanes: A Ticket to Ride — for a Price By Brad Broberg CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Colorado Department of Transportation began work late last year to add tolled express lanes along a 12.5-mi. (20.1 km) stretch of C-470 in Denver — one of several such projects it has completed or will complete in the coming years. The $276 million project is expected to open to traffic on schedule in spring of 2019. Flatiron Construction Corp., with headquarters in Broomfield, Colo., and AECOM, an integrated design and construction company based in Los Angeles, were selected to design and build the express lanes in a joint venture led by Flatiron. Tolled express lanes relieve congestion in general purpose lanes by adding the option to pay a toll to travel in express lanes where traffic flows faster. If express lanes get too congested, tolls go up in real time, which reduces the number of drivers using them and restores the flow. The cherry on top? Tolls help pay the cost of construction. State, county and federal sources are paying $100.6 million toward the C-470 project, but the bulk of the funding is coming from loans financed by toll revenues. see EXPRESS page 34
A 44-m Schwing concrete pumper and a Terex RT780 rough-terrain crane work on one of two new bridges being built across the South Platte River to accommodate the new C-470 express lanes.
UC Merced in Second Year of $1.3B Expansion University of California, Merced photo
By Chuck Harvey CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction crews are in their second year of a massive four-year $1.3 billion expansion of the University of California campus in Merced. The Merced 2020 Project will add about 1.2 million gross sq. ft. of space for teaching, research, student
housing and support facilities to the existing campus by 2020. The expansion is designed to accommodate 10,000 students. The current campus covers 104 acres with buildings measuring 1.4 million gross sq. ft. Gross sq. ft. is calculated from the outside of the exterior walls. When the campus project is comsee CAMPUS page 38
Business Calendar..............61 Advertisers Index...............62
The Merced 2020 Project will add about 1.2 million gross sq. ft. of space for teaching, research, student housing and support facilities to the existing campus by 2020.