OHIO Department of Transportation Project #140378 Franklin County, OH ISSA Presidents Award Submission Strawser Construction Inc. Columbus, Ohio
Strawser Construction Project Team Chris Anspaugh Regional Manager Pierre Peltier GM Marketing & Business Development Zach Helm Technical Sales Representative Tim Amling Senior Estimator David Kiser Operations Manager Ben Lajoye General Superintendent Michael Szymborski Project Manager
ISSA Award - Project Requirements Strawser Construction Inc. is a good-standing member of ISSA. Project #140378 was accepted by ODOT on July 23 rd, 2015. The project was completed on time, within budget and had no safety issues. All Micro Surfacing and crack sealing on this project was completed by Strawser Construction without the help of subcontractors.
Project Overview The original contract value of the project was $4,531,194.79. The project was split into two parts. Part 1 consisted of approximately 3.88 miles of I-670 in downtown Columbus, OH from the I-70/I-670 Split East to the 4 th Street overpass. The major items for part 1 were: Micro Surfacing Surface Course - Micro Surfacing Leveling Course - Crack Sealing - 277,305 SY 245,119 SY 265,751 SY Part 2 of the project consisted of approximately 6.8 miles of I-71 in Madison and Fayette County. The major items for part 2 were: Micro Surfacing Surface Course - Micro Surfacing Leveling Course - Crack Sealing - 317,150 SY 294,758 SY 472,733 SY
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Project Overview Part 2 Part 2 had a completion date of September 30 th 2014. Began working on Part 2 in August of 2014. Classified as rural with an average daily traffic (ADT) of 41,000. No daytime lane closures were permitted. All crack sealing and Micro Surfacing work was completed by mid-september 2015 without any issues. So what makes this project worthy of a ISSA President s Award?
3.88 miles long ADT of 191,663 Project Overview Part 1 Varies from 3 to 4 lanes in both the east and westbound directions Numerous on/off ramps that service other major thoroughfares. Double lane closure were only permitted between the hours of 9:00 pm and 5:00 am. Traffic restrictions outside of these times would be subject to a $200 per lane per minute penalty. (2 Lanes closed for 1 hour = $24,000 penalty) SCI and our subcontractors estimated over 125 nighttime lane closures.
Part 1 Value Engineering ODOT has a program called Valued Engineering Change Proposals or otherwise known as VECP. This program encourages contractors to submit a value engineering proposal to ODOT by splitting with the contractor all recognized savings. After a thorough review of the project in December of 2014, and with the guidance of the ODOT inspection team, we decided to develop a VECP for this project. Our main priorities when developing the VECP were: Improve safety on the project for our team members and the motoring public. Reduce the number of traffic interruptions to the motoring public. Improve the quality of Micro Surfacing by decreasing the number of cold joints. Incentivize our plan with a large monetary savings for ODOT
Part 1 Value Engineering Cont. In March of 2015, we submitted our VECP to ODOT, in which we proposed 2 weekend closures of I-670 eastbound and 2 weekend closures of I-670 westbound. We proposed closing of I-670 on Friday evening at 9:00 pm and having the road open to traffic by no later than 6:00 am Monday morning. As a part of the VECP we included a cost savings to ODOT in the amount of $121,932.00. The majority of the cost savings was due to an increase in productivity. In early April of 2015 the VECP we submitted was approved by ODOT and the City of Columbus.
Execution Weekend 1 4/17/15 to 4/20/15 Closed I-670 Eastbound Completed Crack Seal with 3 crews, Thermoplastic Line Removal, Spray Patching, SRS Bridge Deck Sealing, Ride Profile Correction, and Hot-mix Asphalt Patching Weekend 2 4/24/15 to 4/27/15 Closed I-670 Westbound Complete Crack Seal with 3 crews, Thermoplastic Line Removal, Spray Patching, SRS Bridge Deck Sealing and Hot-mix Asphalt Patching Weekend 3 5/1/15 to 5/3/15 Closed I-670 Westbound Utilized 3 Micro Surfacing crews to complete all Micro Surfacing, and placed work zone pavement markings Weekend 4 5/8/15 to 5/11/15 Closed I-670 Eastbound Utilized 3 Micro Surfacing crews to complete all Micro Surfacing and placed work zone pavement markings
Thank You to Everyone Involved ODOT Brian Hupp, Jeff Holbrook, Christine Dicke Griffin Pavement Markings Paul Peterson Company American Roadway Logistics Boca Construction T&A Construction Strawser Paving Premier Patching WL Markers
An Award Worthy Project The inherit complexity of the project. Customer satisfaction (as displayed in the previous letter). Thinking outside of the box and developing a plan which in turn lead to a project that was safer, more productive, of a higher quality, and saved ODOT thousands of dollars. The ability to staff, equip, and manage over 125 nights of work condensed into 4 weekends. Flawless execution of all items of work.