fensoncont.
Senior Member
Hey everyone,
ODOT has a large 4 lane highway bidding here in a few weeks. The highway is about 10 miles in length.
I am NOT actually bidding this project, but I do have plans and specs for it and have been working on a price for my owne edcation for about a month and a half.
I am curious as to how all of you interested in earthmoving would like to go about this project as far as machines, how many pieces of equipment etc.? I've got my own way as to how I would do it, I will post my fleet list after some posts start coming in. I thought this would be interesting for everyone to see what opinions other forum members had on this type of project. The following are the details to the earthmoving portion of the project:
The project is on very flat ground.
576,172 CY of Excavation
2,160,017 CY of Embankment
175,551 CY of that excavation quantity is a Detention Basin adjacent to the ROW. It is 5,000' in length and 220-260' in width. The basin cuts are from 3-6'.
The remaining excavation are shallow cuts, such as swales on each side of the highway and minor areas within the ROW. No 'bulk' cuts.
There are (4) overpasses, one of which is an interchange that has (4) ramps in a diamond interchange format.
The project begins at station 837 - the first overpass is at station 920. The first county the project is in ends at station 1030, the next county the station numbers begin at 0. The second overpass is at station 30. The third overpass is at station 85. The interchange overpass is at station 190. The project ends at station 327. The Detention Basin is from stations 243-283
The following are the station locations and size of the bororw pits given by ODOT.
Figure 20-21' Pit Depths - 3:1 Inside Slopes
Pit #1 - Station 920 - 4.96 Acres - 118,369 CY
Pit #2 - Station 1030 - 30.75 Acres - 896,533 CY
Pit #3 - Station 30 - 2.09 Acres - 40,218 CY
Pit #4 - Station 85 - 2.09 Acres - 40,218 CY
Pit #5 - Station 195 - 20.67 Acres - 594,460 CY
There is 200,000 CY of Topsoil required for seeding, within the excavation and on the borrow pits we could salvage 100,000 CY. I figured on stripping portions of the ROW in embankment areas to salvage the other 100,000 CY - yielding more borrow.
Entire project completion date isn't until 2013, but the earthwork wouldn't extend to that date.
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
ODOT has a large 4 lane highway bidding here in a few weeks. The highway is about 10 miles in length.
I am NOT actually bidding this project, but I do have plans and specs for it and have been working on a price for my owne edcation for about a month and a half.
I am curious as to how all of you interested in earthmoving would like to go about this project as far as machines, how many pieces of equipment etc.? I've got my own way as to how I would do it, I will post my fleet list after some posts start coming in. I thought this would be interesting for everyone to see what opinions other forum members had on this type of project. The following are the details to the earthmoving portion of the project:
The project is on very flat ground.
576,172 CY of Excavation
2,160,017 CY of Embankment
175,551 CY of that excavation quantity is a Detention Basin adjacent to the ROW. It is 5,000' in length and 220-260' in width. The basin cuts are from 3-6'.
The remaining excavation are shallow cuts, such as swales on each side of the highway and minor areas within the ROW. No 'bulk' cuts.
There are (4) overpasses, one of which is an interchange that has (4) ramps in a diamond interchange format.
The project begins at station 837 - the first overpass is at station 920. The first county the project is in ends at station 1030, the next county the station numbers begin at 0. The second overpass is at station 30. The third overpass is at station 85. The interchange overpass is at station 190. The project ends at station 327. The Detention Basin is from stations 243-283
The following are the station locations and size of the bororw pits given by ODOT.
Figure 20-21' Pit Depths - 3:1 Inside Slopes
Pit #1 - Station 920 - 4.96 Acres - 118,369 CY
Pit #2 - Station 1030 - 30.75 Acres - 896,533 CY
Pit #3 - Station 30 - 2.09 Acres - 40,218 CY
Pit #4 - Station 85 - 2.09 Acres - 40,218 CY
Pit #5 - Station 195 - 20.67 Acres - 594,460 CY
There is 200,000 CY of Topsoil required for seeding, within the excavation and on the borrow pits we could salvage 100,000 CY. I figured on stripping portions of the ROW in embankment areas to salvage the other 100,000 CY - yielding more borrow.
Entire project completion date isn't until 2013, but the earthwork wouldn't extend to that date.
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.