When crews with Kokosing Construction Co. began a $209-million design-build contract—the largest of its kind in West Virginia—in 2015, they first had to build roads in order to build the actual road called Corridor H.
“Initially getting to and into the project” was the first challenge, says Dave Mattson, Kokosing senior area manager, with access roads built through heavily forested areas and a mountain. “We were going up and down steep roads we created just to get to places. As you get there, it becomes a matter of riding on track equipment—getting rebar, concrete, piling, pipe and so on to the site.”