The Year in Infrastructure 2008 - (Page 9) ConneCting ProjeCt teams – Winner HDR Engineering, Inc. Southwest Parkway Interchange Fort Worth, Texas, United States Southwest Parkway is a proposed 8.2-mile, six-lane tollway that north texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) will build and maintain. It will improve regional mobility by relieving the growing traffic congestion in the greater Fort Worth area. Extending from Fort Worth’s central business district at IH-30 to southwest Fort Worth, Southwest Parkway eventually connects to the 13mile Chisholm Trail project in Johnson County. As part of the project, HDR designed a new five-level interchange at SH-183 and IH-20. HDR’s segment comprised designing two miles of new roadway, six-lane mainlines on Southwest Parkway with localized frontage roads, more than one mile of SH-183 reconstruction with new frontage roads, and direct connectors to IH-20. As the largest of the project’s five design segments, the project includes nine direct connectors, 15 slip ramps, and reconstruction of one cross-street underpass. The corridor master plan calls for a visually narrow cross section, improved landscaping, and bridge and wall treatments that are sensitive to the natural and constructed environment. Meeting NTTA’s aggressive 18-month schedule, from notice to proceed to final design, required HDR to pool multiple resources for bridge and roadway design. The firm mobilized a seamless design team comprised of 90 HDR engineers, CAD designers, and staff from 12 offices along with more than 40 team members from four subconsultants. To integrate such a diversified design team across multiple locations, ProjectWise was selected as the document management system for all project files, which included not only CAD files but also engineering calculations, spreadsheets, word documents, and all e-mail correspondence. Because HDR had used ProjectWise on previous large-scale collaborations, the project management team easily installed the framework for efficient work sharing and workload balancing. The properly configured system and continued support provided the design team with a tool that increased productivity, improved quality, and provided an efficient way to collaborate. bE AwARd wINNER WinnEr 9 ALSO NOMINATED IN INDuSTry CATEgOry: INNOvATION IN rOAD AND BrIDgE (WINNEr) I uSTry CATE ST ATEg I v BrID (WINNEr) r 9
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