| Project Spotlights |
| Crafting a Landmark: Rebuilding the I-5 Willamette River Bridge |
| December 7, 2011 Oregon Department of Transportation |
| The Oregon Department of Transportation produced a 7-1/2-minute video — “Crafting a Landmark: Rebuilding the I-5 Willamette River Bridge” — that highlights the history, design, and construction progress of this major project. View the video here. |
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| Project Spotlights |
| Willamette River Bridge: Bringing cultural landmarks to I-5 |
| September 23, 2011 HubDOT Exclusive |
| Through its work on the Interstate 5 Willamette River Bridge and surrounding area, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is building cultural significance into an already landmark project. Design enhancements — sculptures that will appear along the bridge’s I-5 median and freeway and in the parks near the project — are set to be installed in early 2014 after the highway project is completed in 2013. ODOT knew, given the complexity of the project, that it needed to provide artists specific parameters to work within from the start. |
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| Engineering & Construction |
| Perspectives on the construction manager/general contractor procurement method |
| May 24, 2011 HubDOT Exclusive |
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) currently is undertaking the largest bridge replacement project in its history. The new Interstate 5 Willamette River Bridge will be a milestone for ODOT in many respects, most notably for its use of the construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) procurement method — an ODOT first. Now that construction has been under way for several years, the project team offers insights on CM/GC.
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| Engineering & Construction |
| Building memories from the river up |
| March 30, 2011 HubDOT Exclusive |
| Throughout his 33-year career with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), 88-year-old Warren Neer wore many hats as a survey chainman, an inspector, a transitman and a party chief. Neer’s first role at the agency in 1948, however, was much simpler than these — a typist. |
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| Building the Willamette River Bridge, then and now |
| November 24, 2010 HubDOT Exclusive |
Photos document the differences in bridge design and construction techniques used in 1961 and today.
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Department of Transportation makes steps to ensure the structure's ecological footprint is as small as possible, leaving room for natural habitats to flourish.
