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BUSINESS NEWS CH2M-DESIGNED OHIO INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENTS EARN RECOGNITION AS BEST URBAN HIGHWAY PROJECT Ohio Department of Transportation’s I-270/US 33 Interchange, designed by CH2M , received the 2017 ODOT/ ACEC Partnering Award for Excellence in Highway Design in the Best Urban Project category. The ODOT/ACEC Awards for Excellence in Highway Design program, a cooperative effort between Ohio Department of Transportation and the American Council of Engineering Companies in Ohio, recognizes the state’s best projects in three categories – structure, rural projects, and urban projects. Under an accelerated schedule beginning in 2013, CH2M served as the lead design consultant for approximately $70 million in improvements to the I-270/US 33 interchange, which had exceeded its original 1960s design capacity by more than 100 percent. Previously noted as one of the most dangerous in the state, ODOT ranked the interchange in the Top 20 for freeway crashes. In light of these safety concerns and increased traffic demand, the updated design aimed to: ❚ ❚ Eliminate the obsolete geometric designs within the interchange to improve safety. ❚ ❚ Add capacity with additional lanes on I-270 and on US 33/SR 161. ❚ ❚ Resolve traffic congestion and improved traffic flow at the interchange. The Phase 1 improvements included widening US-33 from two lanes to four lanes in each direction for approximately two miles, and realignment and reconstruction of seven ramps, eight new bridges, three widened bridges, and eight new retaining walls. Given the size and magnitude of funding necessary to reconstruct the interchange as a whole, CH2M worked with ODOT to develop a phasing strategy to rebuild the interchange in workable segments over time. The CH2M team completed the design process in just 14 months, and construction of the Phase 1 improvements reached substantial completion in 2016. ODOT will continue looking at additional Phase 2 enhancements for the interchange, which became the first interchange in the country to use predictive crash analysis methods per the AASHTO Highway Safety Manual during alternative analysis to influence alternative selection.

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The I-270/US 33 Interchange project received its award at the ODOT/ACEC Partnering Conference on June 14, 2017. JACOBS SECURES MAJOR RAIL PROJECT IN MALAYSIA Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded the role of lead trackwork design consultant for the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya Line in Malaysia. The KVMRT project involves the construction of a rail-based public transport network comprised of three lines. The SSP Line, which is the second mass rapid transit line to be developed, has an estimated construction cost of approximately $7.6 billion. Jacobs will work with the China Communications and Construction Company and George Kent Joint Venture, which was awarded the approximately $234 million contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning of track work, maintenance vehicles, and work trains on the MRT SSP Line by MRT Corporation. “This is the first large scale rail project for Jacobs in Malaysia, which builds on our strong presence across South East Asia in the growing transport infrastructure market, reinforcing our reputation as a leading service provider,” said Jacobs Buildings and Infrastructure Senior Vice President Patrick Hill. “This follows our deliberate investment in the transportation sector in South East Asia, mobilizing capabilities from the U.K. and Australia to support our clients in projects with an increasing level of scale and complexity.” The MRT SSP Line will be approximately 32.4 miles in length, with 8.4 miles of rail in tunnels and the remaining on elevated structures. It will include 26 elevated stations, 11 underground stations, and a maintenance depot. The line will serve a corridor with a population of nearly two million people. Jacobs’ services include the design of trackwork, emergency walkways, cable containment systems, and stray current control systems. The project will be delivered in accordance with international systems engineering and assurance practices to ensure a fully interfaced and compliant design. Jacobs will provide design support services throughout the construction period and use building information modeling to support a fully integrated digital engineering approach.

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welcome you back and probably even give you a raise!”

That looks bad.

It’s hard to win on this one. I guess I will just vacillate between the two on a case- by-case basis. Don’t you wish management was black and white? MARK ZWEIG is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.

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