Big-I Reconstruction ITS System, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Key Data:
Project completion
May 2002
Total project cost
$293m
Client
New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department
Lead contractor
Twin Mountain Construction II Company
Construction management
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Traffic management:
Main contractor
ADDCO, Inc.
Traffic management project cost
$1.5m
Semi-permanent CCTV cameras
12
Dynamic message signs
8
Dynamic signs
4
Portable message signs
4
ADDCO SmartZones
4
Average incident response time
8min
Construction:
Main contractors
A. S. Horner, Albuquerque Underground Inc., Associated Concrete Cutting, Inc., Becho Inc., CSR Prestress, Carter Services, Inc., Chava Trucking, D'Ambra Steel Service Inc., DeMenno Construction Company Inc., Hernandez Concrete Pumping Inc., McDade-Woodcoc
Big I design capacity
400,000 cars per day
New lane construction
111 miles
New bridges
45
Rehabilitated bridges
10
Base course
441,000t
Truckloads of excavation
186,000
Paving
111 lane-miles
Driven pile
7.6 miles
Mixer loads of concrete
21,000
Bridge beams
15.7 miles
Wiring/conduit
154 miles
Concrete barrier wall
29 miles
Drilled shafts
4 miles
Rebar
7.5 million lb.
Utility work
70 miles
Sound walls
4 miles
