Michigan State road rebuild contract starting

Road rebuilding is due to start on a key road project in Michigan State in the US.
August 14, 2019 Read time: 2 mins

Road rebuilding is due to start on a key road project in Michigan State in the US. Oakland Corridor Partners (OCP) is starting construction work for the I-75 Modernisation Segment 3 Project. The project is of note as this is the first design-build-finance-maintain contract (DBFM) for an Interstate project in Michigan.

The Segment 3 contract for I-75 involves improving an 8.8km section of interstate highway through Oakland County. Segment 3 is the final piece of the 29km MDOT I-75 modernisation programme. OCP has partnered with MDOT on this vital project and through our innovative contracting approach, will bring final completion 10 years earlier than previously planned.

Improving this stretch of highway will improve transport to and from Detroit. The I-75 route is an important one as it connects the US state of Michigan with Canada then winds southwards through Cincinnati in Ohio, Atlanta in Georgia and Tampa in Florida before eventually terminating in Miami, Florida where it meets I-95.

Oakland Corridor Partners is a consortium of construction, engineering, asset management and investment firms comprising, AECOM Capital, Ajax Paving Industries, Dan’s Excavating, Jay Dee & CA and John Laing. The firms have joined forces to partner with MDOT on this project. MI 75 Constructors is the Design-Build Contractor and consists of four local SE Michigan contractors; Dan’s Excavating, Ajax Paving Industries, Jay Dee who will carry out over 90% of the work.

Segment 3 includes the reconstruction of an 8.8km section of the I-75 corridor from 8 Mile to just north of 13 Mile Road as well as the construction of a new 6.4km long, 4.3m wide storage and drainage tunnel.

For 2019 the construction work will include pavement widening, traffic crossovers, the removal of the Dallas Road overpass and other related work to prepare for the 2020 construction season. The project is to be fully completed by August 2023 when OCP takes over full responsibility for the maintenance of the highway for 25 years.

Road Structures

Related Content

  • Mostotrest won another tender for building of Moscow-St Petersburg highway
    February 20, 2014
    The award for a key stretch of the Moscow-St Petersburg highway has been awarded - Eugene Gerden writes As expected by analysts, Mostotrest, owned by the Rotenberg brothers, won the tender for the construction of the sixth and longest section of the Moscow-St Petersburg highway. Under the conditions of the tender the company will build 209km of the highway (334-543km), which will pass through the Tver and Novgorod regions of Russia. The cost of construction is 144.6 billion Rubles (US$4.51 billion), 16 bill
    Read More
  • Ethiopia races on with projects
    June 13, 2012
    Ethiopia is pursuing a 10-year $2.4 billion development plan, part of which are ambitious road developments. Shem Oirere reports Ethiopia is hastening its pace towards accessing a share of the East Africa commodity market and opening itself up for foreign investment through the implementation of an ambitious road development strategy, the Road Sector Development Programme (RSDP). The landlocked nation has convinced a number of international lenders of the viability of RSDP, with some of them now loosening
    Read More
  • THIS is a Paving Project– The I-15 CORE
    December 20, 2012
    Provo, Utah – The scope of the I-15 Corridor Expansion Project (I-15 CORE) in the state of Utah is nearly unprecedented because of the size of the project and the short completion deadline. Twenty-four miles (38.6 km) of removal and replacement of Interstate 15 between Lehi and Spanish Fork, widening the number of traveling lanes by two, for up to six lanes in each direction in 35 months. The new 364 lane miles (586 km) of concrete roadway will be slipformed 12 or 12.5 inches (305 or 318 mm) thick for a tot
    Read More
  • Property issues holding back start of work on Gordie Howe Bridge
    July 19, 2016
    Delays in buying properties in Detroit, Michigan, could hold up construction of the proposed 3.2km Gordie Howe International Bridge that will link the US city to Windsor in Canada. A report by the Detroit Free press said that around 30 of the estimated 900 parcels of land in the city’s Delray district could pose potential problems if owners resist selling the sites to the bridge’s developers. The newspaper noted that Dwight Duncan, interim chair of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority - the Canadian e
    Read More

Highlighted Content