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Resident Engineering and Inspection Services for Belt Parkway over Ocean Parkway Project
Owner: New York City Department of Transportation
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Construction Cost: $55 Million
HAKS provided Resident Engineering and Inspection Services for the Belt Parkway over Ocean parkway Project in Brooklyn (Contract No. HBK1193). This $55 Million bridge and interchange replacement was a Design-Build Project, in which HAKS worked directly with the contractor, designer and the client, the New York City Department of Transportation.
Ocean Parkway is one of the major interchanges providing access to the recreational areas of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay in south Brooklyn. It is extremely sensitive to traffic interruptions and modifications due to its proximity to these locations that generate heavy traffic in the summer as well as other times a year. In addition, Coney Island Hospital and Abraham Lincoln High School (with over 3,000 students) are both located very close to the bridge and each has specific concerns and requirements. Tight control of the project schedule, therefore, as well as maintenance and protection of traffic, was essential if the project were to be completed successfully and with minimum impact on traffic and the community.
The project involved removing the existing and outdated cloverleaf ramps at Ocean Parkway and replacing them with a modified tight diamond interchange consisting of eight tangential ramps and dedicated turn lanes. Additionally, the Belt Parkway Bridge over Ocean Parkway was removed and replaced with a wider, longer structure that provides additional lanes and malls for Ocean Parkway. In order to minimize the impact of the bridge removal, a temporary bridge was constructed to the immediate south to maintain the existing number of lanes on the Belt Parkway.
In order to complete the project and minimize its impact, such key bridge elements as cap beams were precast and post-tensioned. The steel girders and concrete bridge deck were made up of composite design sections (Inverset), each of which comprised two girders and a full-span section of bridge deck that was delivered to the site immediately ready for erection.
Another interesting aspect of the project was that the deep foundations for which the bridge consisted of mini-piles that were installed with limited headroom beneath the existing bridge, which remained in use while the foundations were built.
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Resident Engineering and Inspection Services for Belt Parkway over Ocean Parkway Project
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Construction Cost: $55 Million
HAKS provided Resident Engineering and Inspection Services for the Belt Parkway over Ocean parkway Project in Brooklyn (Contract No. HBK1193). This $55 Million bridge and interchange replacement was a Design-Build Project, in which HAKS worked directly with the contractor, designer and the client, the New York City Department of Transportation.
Ocean Parkway is one of the major interchanges providing access to the recreational areas of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay in south Brooklyn. It is extremely sensitive to traffic interruptions and modifications due to its proximity to these locations that generate heavy traffic in the summer as well as other times a year. In addition, Coney Island Hospital and Abraham Lincoln High School (with over 3,000 students) are both located very close to the bridge and each has specific concerns and requirements. Tight control of the project schedule, therefore, as well as maintenance and protection of traffic, was essential if the project were to be completed successfully and with minimum impact on traffic and the community.
The project involved removing the existing and outdated cloverleaf ramps at Ocean Parkway and replacing them with a modified tight diamond interchange consisting of eight tangential ramps and dedicated turn lanes. Additionally, the Belt Parkway Bridge over Ocean Parkway was removed and replaced with a wider, longer structure that provides additional lanes and malls for Ocean Parkway. In order to minimize the impact of the bridge removal, a temporary bridge was constructed to the immediate south to maintain the existing number of lanes on the Belt Parkway.
In order to complete the project and minimize its impact, such key bridge elements as cap beams were precast and post-tensioned. The steel girders and concrete bridge deck were made up of composite design sections (Inverset), each of which comprised two girders and a full-span section of bridge deck that was delivered to the site immediately ready for erection.
Another interesting aspect of the project was that the deep foundations for which the bridge consisted of mini-piles that were installed with limited headroom beneath the existing bridge, which remained in use while the foundations were built.
