Ready-mixed Concrete, Asphalt Paving, Heavy Highway Subcontractor, Colorado: 29 Road/I 70 B Overpass

Owner: City of Grand Junciton/Mesa County

General Contractor: Lawrence Construction Company

Completion Date: November 2011

United Companies recently completed work on 29 Road/I-70 B Overpass. This $34-million project included irrigation improvements, South, North & Interchange construction, upgraded utilities and street lighting covering 3.7 miles of roadway. Construction began with the irrigation phase in November 2008. Construction of North and South phases launched in July 2009 and was completed in 2011 with the I-70B ramp bridge. The mainline bridge is 779 feet long with seven spans and the I-70B ramp bridge is 322 feet long with five spans. United Companies was responsible for supplying all of the concrete for the bridge structures and the hot mix asphalt for the project.

• 6,109 cubic yards concrete in bridge structure
• 28,000+ tons asphalt

  

  

  
  

ASPHALT PAVING, COLORADO: CDOT HWY 55 RED MOUNTAIN PASS

Owner: State of Colorado

General Contractor: United Companies

Completion Date: 2008

Location: Red Mountain Pass, Colorado

The Red Mountain Pass project was a 22-mile overlay project on one of Colorado’s most hazardous roadways. Scope of work included the application of a 1″ hot mix asphalt leveling course followed by a 2″ hot mix asphalt overlay. The project presented several unique challenges with steep grades, high elevations (11,008 ft at the summit), precipitous drops at the roadway shoulders and heavy tourist traffic during the summer paving season.

• 40,815 tons hot mix asphalt
• Winner of Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association award for Best Rural Highway Resurfacing
• Winner of National Asphalt Pavement Assocation award for Excellence in Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements

EXCAVATION, ASPHALT PAVING, COLORADO: EAGLE COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT

Owner: Eagle County

General Contractor: United Companies

Date of Completion: 2009

Project Location: Eagle County, Colorado

United Companies completed reconstruction on the primary runway of the Eagle County Regional Airport. The project was phased over two years and included extensive demolition of existing structures, pipe and under drain installation, excavation and embankment, rotomilling, placement and grading of sub base and base course, hot mix asphalt paving, pavement markings and installation of electrical components.

• 67,050 cubic yards excavation
• 129,420 square yards sub grade preparation
• 60,770 tons of P-154 sub base produced and placed
• 40,640 tons of P-209 aggregate base course produced and placed
• 97,995 tons hot mix asphalt

HEAVY HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, ASPHALT PAVING, COLORADO: CDOT HIGHWAY 65 GRAND MESA DELTA COUNTY

Owner: Colorado Department of Transportation

General Contractor: United Companies

Project Completion: 2006

Location: Delta County, Colorado

This project consisted of heater remixing existing asphalt and a 2″ hot mix asphalt overlay on Grand Mesa’s Hwy 65 in Delta County.

• 38,243 tons hot mix asphalt
• 268,613 square yard heater remix treatment of existing asphalt