2018 TRANSPORTATION AWARDSThe 2018 ACEC/Iowa Engineering Excellence Awards winning projects in the Transportation Category:Transportation Grand Place Award (1st Place in Category) Firm: HDR
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA – The Council Bluffs Interstate System (CBIS) was originally constructed in the 1960s and was developed to the design standards of that time. Although routine maintenance projects were completed in the 1980s and 1990s, there have not been any significant changes to CBIS since its original construction.
Transportation Grand Place Award (1st Place in Category) Firm: Kirkham Michael & Associates, Inc.
The recently constructed extension of E. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway from SE 15th – SE 30th Street marks a large milestone in the progress of the City of Des Moines E. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway project. The completion of this project allows efficient access through the City of Des Moines on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway from Fleur Drive, all the way to SE 30th Street. Planning for this project began in the 1970’s and has steadily progressed since 2005. After three years of construction, this new section of roadway was opened for traffic on May 20, 2016. The City of Des Moines retained Kirkham Michael to complete the design and construction management of this two-mile, $30 Million dollar street extension, which is the sixth project of the E. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway plan. This new section of roadway includes over three-miles of new street paving, on-street bikes lanes, a parallel recreational trail, the expansion of Dean’s Lake, and two railroad overpasses. The dual railroad overpasses allow traffic to avoid conflicts with the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Railroads, which frequently blocked east-west streets in this section of town. The project also included interconnected traffic signals at SE 18th, SE 23rd, SE 25th, and SE 30th Streets to keep traffic moving efficiently. One large benefit of the roadway project is the installation of a storm sewer network, which never existed in most areas of the project corridor. The new storm sewer along the project will allow adjoining properties to redevelop and connect into the City storm sewer network. Due to the large cost of the project, only the south two lanes of the four-lane boulevard were constructed, but all other utilities were completed for the ultimate project build-out. The entire corridor was also landscaped with trees, shrubs, native grasses, and way-finding monuments to enhance the corridor aesthetics. This project received statewide, and national attention when it won a competitive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) and Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy (RISE) grants to assist in funding construction. The role of the adjacent business Kemin Industries was vital in receiving the RISE grant, and they have expanded rapidly along the roadway corridor leading the redevelopment trend in this corridor. The project also received national attention when the serving United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visited the project in 2015.
Transportation Honor Award (2nd place in category) Project: First Avenue Grade Separation Project: Raising the Red Bridge
Engineering Achievement Award Project: I-35/ I-80/ IA 141 Interchange UR & NEPA Project: Martin Brothers Distributing Co., Inc. Project: County Road K-25 over I-29 Salix Interchange Project: US 30 over Boyer River Project: Rockwell City Downtown Square Reconstruction Project: North Liberty Road & Dubuque Street Roundabout Project: Phase I & II Beaver Drive Overlay Project: 6th Street Bridge Replacement
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