Wear and tear and the need for increased capacity necessitated a $45.5-million project to widen and rehab a heavily traveled 2.5-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in Louisiana’s Calcasieu Parish. But the same high volumes of traffic that brought about the project have also challenged the team constructing it.
Creative sequencing and detailed planning have helped the team work around traffic and other obstacles, including utility relocations and repeated jobsite shutdowns amid a historic hurricane season and the COVID-19 pandemic.