PROJECT EXPERIENCE

I-95 Rehabilitation Colleton & Jasper Counties, SC

Client Name / Address:
SCDOT
District 6
6355 Fain Blvd.
N. Charleston, SC 29406

Project Description:

Triplett-King and F&ME Consultants teamed together to provide SCDOT CEI services on the I-95 Rehabilitation and Widening project in Colleton and Jasper Counties. The cost for providing this work was $443,000.00. We were tasked to provide construction management, construction inspection, and material testing for Resident Construction Engineer Steve Morgan. Mr. George (Gator) Kinard, Triplett-King, provided the traffic control inspection, while Mr. Tom Martin, FM&E, and Mark White, Triplett-King provided the construction inspection and testing duties. Each of these individuals worked closely with Mr. Morgan’s project manager to ensure that the inspection provided a sense competence and expertise.

The construction management duties consisted of providing traffic control management ensuing that the contractor adhered to all the specific timeframes required within the special provision of the contract, and that the traffic control measures used were properly installed and were in good working conditions. Secondly, the duties included proper documentation and verification of all constructions pay items installed by the contractor.
The construction inspection and material testing duties required that we provide certified inspectors for all the faucets of the construction, and we verifying that all materials were in accordance with SCDOT specifications. The testing included sampling several concrete mixes prior to their use to ensure that the proper mix used could meet the stringent strength and compression requirements to allow traffic to flow within a six hour set-time. Nightly samples of the concrete mix used were tested daily prior to reopening the roadway to traffic that the material used met a minimum psi of 2000 pounds The asphalt inspection and testing duties included that we perform asphalt verification testing at the asphalt plants and that we provide asphalt roadway inspection for proper installation procedures.    
The project consisted of rehabilitating 27.69 miles of Portland concrete continuous pavement, resurfacing the asphalt shoulders and placing shoulder material along the edges of the slopes. The work began at mile marker 4.01 just north of Georgia and ended at mile marker 31.70. The contract required that all phases of the work to be done during the night between the hours of 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM.