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| Web Brief (Feb 06) |
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Delivering bridges on track and on time with night work
To keep traffic moving during highway construction, working when there are fewer drivers on the road reduces the chance of affecting commutes or trucking routes. On the OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program, ODOT bridge crews work at night whenever possible to maximize mobility while keeping project delivery on track and on time.
“Typically, productivity will increase because there’s less traffic at night,” said Brent Pierson, resident construction manager at Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners, ODOT’s program management firm for the bridge program. “It’s a win-win situation, where productivity is up and challenges to mobility for trucking, tourism and commuting are down.”
Night work is under way on the Green Springs Drive Bridge, part of bridge program Bundle 103 in Klamath Falls, where the contractor is pouring a new concrete deck. In the cold, deck pours need to be done in continuous, 90-minute sequences. The interval between the delivery of one load of concrete slurry and the next cannot exceed 20 minutes.
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