A project that the team claims is the first of its kind in North America, aimed to dehumidify and rewrap the main cables and anchorages of Maryland’s William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridges—familiarly known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge—to halt corrosion and extend the dual-span structure’s working life.
As the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa., looked ahead to hosting the 2016 U.S. Open, congestion on the century-old Hulton Bridge near Pittsburgh was so bad that the daily traffic count reached nearly 26,000 vehicles.
For the $2.26-billion Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco, Shimmick Construction coordinated construction up and around a temporary access trestle and four levels of shoring struts and wales.
The $23.6-million Lakeville Interchange project widened the southbound overcrossing for Highway 101 and Route 116, replaced the northbound overcrossing and reconstructed ramps, retaining walls and soundwalls.
Stretching 7.5 miles from San Bernardino to Riverside, this project closes a gap in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on Interstate 215 between the busy I-10 and I-605 freeways, giving Southern California 500 miles of continuous HOV lanes.
The first ground-up bus operations and maintenance facility for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in nearly 30 years, this 540,000-sq-ft sustainable facility is designed to optimize Metro’s bus transit service throughout Central Los Angeles and accommodate 200 buses fueled by clean natural gas.
The Exposition Light Rail Transit Phase 2 in West Los Angeles is a textbook case in how to maneuver through major city arteries, say Best Projects judges.