Transcript Keep Tysons Moving

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Capital Beltway HOT Lanes –
Our Challenges & Successes
Herb Morgan
Vice President
Fluor Infrastructure
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Welcome to Northern Virginia
• 2nd most congested
region in US
• Population growing at
twice national rate
• Polls show transportation
#1 issue
• Beltway congested 6-8
hours per day
• Costs local economy
$5.5 billion a year
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Public-Private Partnership
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Nearly $2 billion transportation improvement project
80-year partnership agreement
Approximately $1.5 billion in private equity and debt
Key risks transferred to private sector, away from taxpayers
– Schedule (fixed date with LD’s of $250K per day)
– Cost (Lump Sum)
• State grant and use of innovative federal loan programs
• Partnership agreement includes key
provisions to protect public interest
– Revenue sharing
– No non-compete
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Stimulating the Local Economy*
Construction of $2 Billion Capital
Beltway HOT Lanes is expected to:
• Support 11,200 jobs
• Generate $2.7 billion in economic
benefit for region 2008-2013
• Contribute 10% of job growth and
20% of total economic growth in
Fairfax County
• Commitments with 103 Disadvantage
Business Enterprise (DBE) firms and
118 Small Woman and Minority
(SWaM) firms; totaling $368M
Tysons Corner – Rt. 123
*George Mason University, 2009
Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Unique Contractual Relationship
Capital Beltway Express LLC
ARCA
Design-Build
Contract
Design-Build Contractor
Subcontractor
Operations & Maintenance
Subcontractors
ETC Maintenance
Roadway Maintenance
O&SS
Contract
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Overview of Improvements
• Two new lanes (High Occupancy Toll) in each
direction from Springfield Interchange to north of
Dulles Toll Road (14 miles)
• Upgrades to 11 key interchanges
• Improved connections for all new interchanges,
particularly at I-66
• Building 58 new bridges and overpasses
• New HOT Lanes dynamic tolling system
• More than 80,000 linear feet of new sound
walls, protecting neighboring communities
• New bike paths and sidewalks on
every Beltway crossing
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I-66 at I-495
Schedule
• 5 years Dec. 2007 – Dec. 2012
• 30% design to final detailed design
• ROW acquisition (144 parcels)
• Utility relocations
(12 owners – 102,000 feet of utilities)
• Construction
• Start up / check out tolling system
• Toll Revenue - December 20, 2012
To D.C.
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Key Construction Metrics
• One of largest highway improvement
projects in U.S ($1.4B Design Build
Contract).
• Over 900 employees and
subcontractors on the job
• Current $35 - $40 million per month
burn rate
• 73,513 cubic yards of concrete
• 1.3 million tons of asphalt
• 21.4 thousand tons of steel
• 224+ pieces of heavy equipment
• 890,000 sq. ft. of retaining walls
• 80,000 linear ft. of sound walls
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Safety – keeping workers and
drivers safe
The Challenges
• 200,000+ vehicles a day
• Tight construction footprint,
multiple lane shifts, narrow lanes
• Frustrated and distracted
drivers/cell phones
• Large amount of night work
• Aggressive schedule – entire 14
miles under construction
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Safety – keeping workers and drivers safe
Action Steps
• Emphasize total team commitment to Safety
• Set and track safety expectations
• Utilize engineered safety controls
whenever possible
• Aggressive VDOT media outreach
– Orange Cones No Phones
– Construction activities
I-495 over Rt. 50
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Safety – keeping workers and drivers safe
Results:
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Fewer serious work zone accidents
2.8 million safe hours on job with only one lost time
.84 OSHA Rate
Increased program ownership
at all levels
Still a work in progress
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Construction
• Construction Approach
– Design/Build
• Design packaging feeds into construction
planning
• Just in time design
• Construction involvement in design
– Unique Contractual Relationship
– Project divided into 4 construction area
– Construction Area Manager and independent
construction team
– VDOT/GEC leads paired with area managers
– Key decision making level
– Most interchanges 3 stage construction approach
• 12–18 month schedule savings realized at 2
interchanges by switching to a 2 stage approach
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Braddock Rd.
Construction
• Work Phasing
– Build outer 2 lanes: 2008 – 2011
– Rebuild/lengthen all bridges & overpasses
along alignment: 2008 – 2011
– Shift traffic into two new outer lanes:
2010 - 2011
– Build inner two (HOT) lanes: 2011 – 2012
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Construction
• Demolition Approach
– Bridge demo at night to allow
needed lane closures
– Noise an issue to nearby
residents and hotels.
SB I-495 at Rt. 123
• Utilized techniques to speed
work while decreasing noise
• Media & public outreach
– Maximize lane closures and duration of
closures to increase hours available for
demolition (in some cases coordinate
with the state to provide full road closures,
with detours in place, to accelerate demolition
Little River Turnpike
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Construction
• Demolition Approach
– Utilize specialist demo subcontractor with specialized
demolition equipment (Hydraulic shear, large hydraulic claw)
– Careful planning of the work
to make most efficient use of
the lane closure window and
maximize productivity
Rt. 123
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Construction
• Field Construction
– Switch from drilled shafts to
driven piles
– Utility relocation & work
sequencing
– Integrated Right of Way
acquisition process
– Multiple work fronts within each
interchange
– Double shift and weekend work
of critical activities
I-495 at Dulles Toll Road
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Significant Project Challenges and Successes
Construction
Tysons Corner
• Field Construction
– Detailed planning and
coordination, particularly when in
close proximity to third party
construction (Dulles Metro)
– Balance of self perform and
subcontract resources to
maximize work fronts
– Close internal coordination
between functions (roadway,
structures, MOT, utilities) to
maximize efficiency of the work
and interface between groups
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Project Successes
Conclusion
• Moving from 30% design review to ROW acquisition, utility
relocation, construction & toll service within 5 years remarkable accomplishment
• VDOT/GEC/Transurban/Fluor-Lane have worked hard to
succeed in this PPP
• Truly unique project
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Project Successes