So far so good for ambitious improvements to a 10.5-mile stretch of Interstate 595 in Florida's Broward County. Approaching the midpoint of its construction schedule, the $1.8-billion contract—the Florida Dept. of Transportation's first use of a design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract and its highest-dollar project ever—is on schedule and on budget for a June 2014 completion.
“Everything on this job is unique,” says Paul Lampley, FDOT's project manager for the I-595 Express Corridor Improvements Project.