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Durham Road Photo Gallery
March 2024
February 2024
Crews on the Durham Road site continued with stage 1 deck forms, and form and structural steel for stage 1 back walls. Crews welded shear connectors.
January 2024
Crews finished installing working platform within the stage 1 steel beams and finished torquing stage 1 structural steel bolts. Workers then started installing overhang brackets and building working platform.
December 2023
Workers have set stage 1 steel beams.
November 2023
Fleming removed the upper whalers and cut the cofferdam sheets to below grade at the pier cofferdam. Workers started to prepare for setting stage 1 steel beams. Workers core drilled for the anchor bolts for the bearing plates on the pier, and the girder support plates on the abutments. The girder support plates on the abutments were set, along with the bearings on the pier.
September 2023
Work at Durham Road saw the placement of concrete for the pier stem. Workers placed concrete for the 48” mast arm.
August 2023
Completed transfer of traffic to the stage one traffic pattern. Built forms and tied rebar for abutment 1. Placed concrete for abutment 1. Applied drainage geocomposite and then backfilled behind abutment 2. Started form and rebar work for the pier stem. Returned to slope work along the south bound ramps and abutment 1 approach.
July 2023
Continued applying loam, seed, and mulch for the abutment 1 approach. Started form and rebar work for the pier footing. Began removing the islands near the south bound ramps. Started to prepare south bound ramps for stage 1 traffic pattern.
June 2023
Placed concrete fill for the center pieras well as concrete for the H-Pile sleeves at Abutment 1. Excavation continues for the center pier.
May 2023
Set and drove H-Pile for Abutment 1. Began drilling and excavating for rock sockets at Abutment 2 and setting H-Pile into drilled rock sockets at Abutment 2. With the aide of rolling slow downs along I-295 began excavation for the center pier.
April 2023
Repainted temporary lane lines on mainline of I-295. Continued installing temporary structural supports at Abutments 1 & 2. Placed riprap and shaped up slopes for Abutment 2 approach. Continued bridge demolition.
March 2023
Prepared for Stage 1 demolition by saw cutting the deck. Applied black paint to help cover up conflicting line striping on I-295 mainline. Restriped temporary lane lines for I-295 construction traffic pattern. Began Stage 1 demolition. Stage 1 beam removal.
February 2023
Work has continued at Durham Road throughout February, involving the continued placement of common borrow for the abutment 1 approach. Work has focused on updating the traffic pattern to come into alignment with stage 1 goals. Crews have painted striped lanes and set temporary concrete barriers, along with a temporary traffic signal. The installation of protective shielding has begun in preparation for stage 1 bridge demolition.
