Orlando, FL—The Florida Transportation Builders’ Association (FTBA) presented the project team of GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI) and Archer Western Construction, LLC., with a 2020 Best in Construction Award, Interstate category, for the I-95 Rigid Pavement Reconstruction between NW 29^th Street and NW 131^st Street, in Miami-Dade County, FL.

Highlights/Key Facts

About the Award

• The award was presented to the project team at an awards breakfast on August 7, during the 2020 FTBA Annual Convention at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek.
• The annual FTBA Best in Construction awards highlight companies and individuals who worked on innovative, complex, and impactful projects around the state.

About the Project

• GAI led the project design for roadway, structures, drainage, lighting, utility coordination, maintenance of traffic, signing and pavement markings.
• The roadway work consisted of concrete pavement replacement and construction of five emergency stopping sites (ESS) in the median – three northbound and two southbound.
• The ESS’s were constructed by shifting the northbound and southbound lanes onto the outside shoulders to complete construction safely behind temporary barrier walls.
• The concrete pavement replacement was completed via nighttime and weekend lane closures, using high early strength concrete in order for lanes to reopen quickly to traffic.

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