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Versailles Road Rehab Project Summary
- 1. Versailles Road Rehab Project Tony McGaha Lexington Section Supervisor District 7 Brian Billings ATS Construction
- 2. History Originally part of the “Midland Trail” Earliest plans show concrete road built around 1937 Widened in 1964 (concrete) Widened to current configuration in 1980 (concrete) Late 1990’s – concrete patching and diamond grinding projects
- 3. When good roads go bad
- 4. Project Information •US 60 from BG Parkway to New Circle Rd •Let December 14, 2012 •Break & Seat or PCC Overlay alternates •Awarded to ATS Construction for $22,737,175.55
- 6. Traffic Restrictions •Work must be complete by Dec 1, 2013 •2 lanes must be maintained each direction between 5 am and 8pm- M-F and 9am to 8pm Sat-Sun •Allowed to have only one lane open during nighttime hours •No lane closures allowed during Keeneland meets or UK home football games. •MOT Revision #1 allowed work during first weekend to occur during daytime hours for temperature help in February.
- 7. Problems?
- 8. “Despite construction on Versailles Road (U.S. 60), Keeneland Race Course’s Spring Meet closed Friday with some record results” – Courier-Journal “The construction along US 60/Versailles Road, the main corridor into Keeneland, did not deter fans as the spring meeting also set an attendance record of 278,415 over 16 days” – Herald-Leader “with the outstanding cooperation we received from state and local officials, the project contractor and our patrons, we were able to accommodate all of our fans in and around the facility, even on our biggest days.” – Bill Thomason Keeneland President and CEO
- 10. Contractor’s Perspective • Bidding • Traffic Phasing • Schedule • Set bar high ▫ Speed ▫ Quality
- 11. Plan of attack NWK Construction
- 12. Let’s get to work
- 13. Median work
- 14. Full depth replacement Keeneland/Man O War Intersection
- 15. Versailles Road is BACK in BLACK!
- 16. A Fairy Tale Ending
Editor's Notes
- Video #2 – Condition Prior to play after this slide
- Video 5 – Project Bid video to play after this slide
- Video 3 – Traffic Concerns play after this slide
- Video 4 – Project Development play after this slide
- Video 7 – Economic Impact play after this slide
- Video 6 – Construction Activities play after this slide Begin Brian’s part slide
- Appreciative to discuss our involvement in this project and to have an opportunity to bid a paving project of this size. US60 has been concrete pavement for over 40 years and the highway department had no obligation to look at is project with alternate pavement types, but they did. During the process of bidding, it was critical to not just be the winning bidder, but also to lay the groundwork to make this a successful project. The challenges were - Overcoming a 1.2 million dollar disadvantage in the alternate pavement bid adjustment - $20,000 per day liquidated damages after December 1, 2013. LDs will be charged during the months of December through April. If the project wasn't completed in 2013, it would cost the contractor as much as 2.4 million dollars. - $25,000 per hour liquidated damages for lane closures left in place after the allowable times. Which means it was worth 600,000 dollars to the department to have Versailles Road open to four lanes during the daytime. - challenging project by the numbers - 237,321 tons of asphalt pavement - construct 8 diversions - follow seven phases - adjust or construct 145 inlet boxes in the median - and much more curb, edge drain, removing pavement, etc - maintain traffic on a stretch of congested high speeded roadway with over 60 entrances and approachesSo this was a formidable task – the picture gives a good description of how we felt – there is danger in this project, but we needed a little good fortune to get through it.
- The plan of attack was not just to outbid the concrete paving contractors but to set the bar so high for speed and quality of construction that the Department never wanted to consider alternate pavements on this type of construction in the future. A big part of this plan included The Allen Company. They were invited to look at pricing approximately 1/3 of the paving, pavement removal, concrete, and drainage construction. This strengthened our ability to expedite the project by adding necessary resources. This included having 5 asphalt plants within close proximity to the project, adding paving, pipe, and concrete crews and equipment. And brining on additional project supervision and expertise. Our plan also included a lineup if extremely capable contractors to do other work outside our area of expertise. These logos shown on the screen are a group of extremely capable and reputable team of people to attack this challenge with. The most critical part of a good plan for building or rehabbing a good road is working with the Engineers on the project. When we saw the plans and read through the project information, we recognized that the employees in District 7, Central Office, and the consultant had put a lot of thought and planning into this project. We understood the commitments made to business and property owners along the route to keep them accessibility. We understood what Keeneland and a Blue Grass Airport meant to Central Kentucky. We knew they had a lot riding on the outcome of this project in terms of public perception and owner. Our plan was to do an asphalt rehab project they could be proud of.
- Milling and paving on the shoulders to move traffic started the second week of February. That’s right. We were very fortunate to get a some warm weather days in February of 2013. We were actually able to lay approximately 10,000 tons in the month of February last year, which allowed a jump on phase 1 and 2 of the project.
- Once traffic was moved onto the shoulders, work quickly started tearing out the existing median, changing the drainage boxes, and placing pavement so that traffic could be moved over to start actual rehab work of the pavement in the Eastbound lanes.
- Approximately 25% of the existing concrete was removed so that grades could be maintained at the critical intersections and the tie ins at each end of the project. The remainder of the concrete was cracked and seated and 10” of asphalt overlay was placed over the broken concrete.
- So after seven months of construction and seven phases of construction, Versailles Road was turned from a failing thirty year old concrete road to a beautiful black asphalt road. Let’s go back to the video to get some feedback on how it went.
- Fairy tale ending - for all of the things that we do to plan and organize, you see that others have a much different perspective of what mattered on a project like this. From a get it done perspective, we finished paving and had all lanes of traffic opened by September 15th. We were very glad to finish before October meet at Keeneland. I think this made a lot of people happy. I’ve always heard it said is that success comes when preparation meets opportunity (and a little luck doesn’t hurt). With good planning and good plans, some good weather in February, hard work, and good quick decision making, the project was considered a success by many. I would be remiss if I didn’t interject a couple bold perspectives at this point. Since this is an asphalt winter training school and we are among friends. Even though some of our friends have to take a neutral stance on the black/white issue. In my 20 years of highway construction, this project is the best example I have seen that asphalt pavement is by far a superior product. It was cheaper, the inconvenience to the commuters and business/property owners was minimal, the Department was proud of the work, the taxpayers are convinced that this is a good value. We beat concrete on the bid by just over $3 million. As I mentioned before, the penalty for not getting finished in one construction season was $2.4 million. That is a clear signal that they could not have completed this project in one construction season. How would the taxpayers looked at this project if it was still on going? The men and women in this room who have dedicated their lives to providing an awesome product – good asphalt highways. You need to be proud. This project is just one of many that stand out at what you provide to society each day. As a wrap up, on behalf of ATS I want to extend our thanks to everyone involved that made this a successful project. All the people working to supply material, do sub contract work, inspect the work, plan, design, and oversee the work did their best to make this a success. A special thanks goes to Tony and Steve for determining good and quick solutions to the problems that came up. They got on it, made fair resolutions, and kept this thing moving at a fast pace. I want to thank Andy Richardson and Keith Vance and all of our employees at ATS Construction who make the near impossible – easy. I’ll turn it back over to Tony for his closing remarks