Extensive outreach with the local business community enabled Sundt’s GO 10 crew in El Paso to move traditional nighttime work to the day, saving time and increasing safety.
Our concrete construction team set 10 precast girders, each weighing around 41,000 pounds, in just three and half hours with minimal disruptions to the public. We partnered with the Texas Department of Transportation to close an Interstate 10 off-ramp and frontage road during peak hours after we worked with local business owners to get their approval. Setting girders during the day is often easier than at night because of improved visibility.
Extensive planning for staging more than 400,000 pounds of precast concrete girders, crane placement and crew activities allowed us to open the ramp and frontage road more than four hours earlier than during a night operation.
GO 10 is an infrastructure reconstruction of Interstate 10 on El Paso’s west side. The project extends 5.75 miles and has four major components: construction of collector-distributor lanes through the corridor, improvement of I-10’s direct connection with Paisano Drive/Border West Expressway, addition of lanes to the interstate in both directions and reconfiguration of ramps and overpasses at three exits.
Collector-distributor lanes disburse traffic, making it easier for motorists to merge on to the interstate.