intelliRock Case Studies
- I-10 Hurricane Damage Reconstruction
- Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast on Monday, August 29, 2005 resulting in numerous bridges being damaged or destroyed. The I-10 east bound bridge over the Pascagoula River and adjacent marsh was badly damaged by two runaway barges. The barges destroyed six of the bridge spans rendering the eastbound bridge impassable. Mississippi DOT reacted in a timely fashion and on Wednesday, September 7 they received four bids from various contractors. The project was awarded to TL Wallace of Columbia, MS for a 31-day contract to repair the bridge with a bid of $5.4 million. The contract called for $100,000 per day in potential damages. The same metric was used as the basis for determining the early completion incentive.
- Zachry Construction Corporation-Dallas High Five Interchange
- Zachry Construction Corporation is on track to earn a large portion of $11 million in bonus for early completion of the Dallas High Five interchange. Use of the intelliRock system for measuring concrete maturity is one of the reasons why the project is 38 percent completed after only 18 months.
- I- 40 Bridge Reconstruction-Gilbert Central Construction (Kiewit)
- When a barge collided with the Interstate 40 Bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, collapsing multiple spans, state transportation officials predicted a six-month reconstruction schedule. The intelliRock system played a major role in helping complete construction in just 47 days, which earned the contractor a $1.5 million early completion bonus.
- Gohmann -I-65 Paving Project, Indiana DOT
- The intelliRock system provided Gohmann Asphalt & Construction with a powerful QC/QA tool for a performance-based paving contract. Not only did it provide documentation of compliance with strength criteria, it helped ensure that cold weather concrete placements were within temperature specifications, helping earn the company a significant bonus.
- Pavers, Inc.-City of Wichita, KS
- Using intelliRockT, Pavers Inc. learned that it was obtaining strength for concrete it placed faster than destructive testing methods indicated. As a result, it was able to open pavement sooner for businesses and residents, and recover time lost to weather delays.
- Duit Construction Co., Inc.-Interstate 30 Project
- Cold weather threatened to set an Interstate Highway paving job back between six to eight weeks at the outset of the project. Using the intelliRock system, the paving contractor was able to monitor the in-situ temperature of the pavement in real-time, providing the owner with necessary quality assurance data to allow the contractor to proceed as scheduled.
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