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HRBT EXPANSION HRBT Winter 2020 EXPANSION Magazine IN THIS ISSUE Full Steam Project Bird Economic Ahead Breaks Management Update 4 8 Ground 10 Plan 14 HRBT Message from Jim Utterback EXPANSION TABLE OF A project of this magnitude can only be made possible CONTENTS through regional cooperation. We are proud to have reached a momentous milestone on October 29, 2020 Project Overview .................... 3 when we held a groundbreaking event led by Virginia Construction Update ......... 4-5 Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Transportation TBM Update .........................6-7 Shannon Valentine, VDOT Commissioner Stephen Brich, as well as state and local leaders. As the largest View of new Groundbreaking Event .......8-9 infrastructure construction project in the history of the eight-lane superstructure. Bird Management ............. 10-11 Commonwealth, this is the culmination of the vision and Safety First.............................12 efforts of State and local leadership to alleviate one of the most congested corridors in the region. Staff Spotlight ......................13 The HRBT Expansion Project has made significant Economic Update ..................14 progress over the past few months. The project recently Community Update ...............15 received the necessary water quality and bridge permits. VDOT issued a Notice to Proceed to Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP), which initiates full construction activities on the project. Crews continue PROJECT OVERVIEW Scan the above to prepare for the arrival of the Tunnel Boring Machine QR CODE (TBM) in 2021 and are working on expanding the New Concept Video Provides Glimpse existing North and South islands to accommodate the to view video. Of Finished Project new twin tunnels. Additionally, crews are mobilizing to begin work to widen the interstate in Norfolk We are getting a preview of what will eventually be the The existing trestle bridges currently support two lanes and Hampton. completed HRBT Expansion, thanks to a new concept of traffic in each direction. The new superstructure will video, which showcases the finished project including support eight total lanes of traffic, four going in each As construction progresses during the COVID-19 roadways, bridges and tunnels. direction between Willoughby Spit and the HRBT South pandemic, we have had to change how we work and In addition to the future bridge work, tunnel structures Island. Building the new superstructure to the west of have added additional safety protocols in accordance and new lanes along I-64, you can also see the the existing trestle bridges will result in less impact to with CDC guidelines. This challenge has only reinforced configuration of the new structures that will replace the motorists, as the HRBT will remain open with two lanes our focus on safety, which remains our top priority. trestle bridges to the Willoughby shoreline in Norfolk. of traffic in each direction throughout construction. Through morning safety huddles, training and regularly scheduled meetings with first responders, safety is always first and foremost on the project. Our team is committed to delivering the HRBT Expansion IN THE NEWS WAVY-TV provides Project on time, on budget and safely. A Newsworthy Project an exclusive look into the HRBT Expansion Project. The HRBT Expansion Project has garnered dozens of James S. Utterback news stories and articles over the past six months. Click here to With so many milestones covered and more yet to watch the HRBT Expansion Project Director come over the next five years, these news stories 3-part series on provide the traveling public with a “behind-the- HRBTExpansion.org scenes” glimpse into fascinating aspects of the Commonwealth’s largest infrastructure. 2 HRBT EXPANSION MAGAZINE | Winter 2020 www.hrbtexpansion.org 3 CONSTRUCTION UPDATE HRBT 2 EXPANSION Full Speed Ahead On The HRBT The HRBT Expansion Project Team is moving forward with construction, 1 Hydromill at work excavating following the receipt of three critical permits from the United States Army the TBM pit. Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC), and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) 2 Drone photo of the South Island this summer. With permits in hand, VDOT issued a Notice to early work including future site of TBM shaft. Proceed (NTP) to Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) in September, which signaled construction activities to begin 3 Setting endwall closing panel in throughout the full corridor. 1 3 excavated pit. Crews have been using marine construction 4 equipment, including three hydromills and a The bottom half of a 190-foot slurry processing plant, to excavate walls for reinforcing cage is lowered into the excavated pit to stabilize walls a 65-foot pit that will be used to launch being formed for the TBM shaft. the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM). When the concrete walls are complete, crews 5 Crane assembly of equipment will be able to excavate the space 4 being used on South Island. inside the pit, which will be slightly longer than the length of a football 6 Cutter wheels of hydromill field. Recent work on a portion of machine. Willoughby Spit created a laydown 7 area for additional construction Multiple Concrete trucks at work to place material for TBM equipment, office space and pit walls. storage area. With a completion date in 5 6 November 2025, work will be happening simultaneously for the twin tunnels, new bridges and interstate widening. Crews are preparing for construction of a temporary trestle near the North Island and early roadway expansion work is underway to allow for the widening of two Norfolk bridges along the PREPARING A HOME FOR THE TBM corridor. Construction on existing highways and bridge structures Crews have been using three hydromill excavators and a is set to begin in early 2021. slurry processing plant to form walls for a pit which will eventually house the TBM. The hydromills have been digging a line of deep, side-by-side When excavation of the pit is rectangular holes. The holes will be filled with concrete to form complete, the TBM will be underground walls. The walls form the outline of a triple-cell cofferdam assembled and launched from (or “tri-cell”, as it’s known on the job), which is longer than a football field. the site. The TBM is expected These walls will be up to 190 feet deep. To keep the hole open until to arrive from Germany in 2021. the concrete is placed, the hydromills fill each excavation with a thick slurry as they dig. This slurry is pumped out when the concrete arrives and is then filtered and recycled for use in the next hole. 7 4 HRBT EXPANSION MAGAZINE | Winter 2020 www.hrbtexpansion.org 5 ATTENTION: ALL HAMPTON ROADS Tunnel Boring Machine MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Naming Contest TBM UPDATE CALL FOR ENTRIES Buildng the Machine The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), a finish boring from its starting point HRBT Help us Name the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) EXPANSION that will Construct the New Twin Tunnels! highly-specialized piece of equipment on the South Island, moving towards The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project will construct new twin two-lane tunnels, as well as widen Interstate 64 between Settlers Landing Road in Hampton and the I-564 Interchange in Norfolk. This is the largest transportation construction project in the history of HRBT the Commonwealth and presents a great opportunity for middle school designed to dig through soils and the North Island at the rate of up to EXPANSION students to learn about the engineering and construction fields. First place winner will receive an award certificate and recognition, and the honor of this new Tunnel Boring Machine having the name you created! construct tunnel segments, is 50 feet per day. Upon reaching the Second and third place finalists will receive honorable mention certificates. For the complete list of contest rules, registration and details, please visit: www.HRBTExpansion.org/NameTheTBM. being manufactured in Germany. North Island, it will take four months FOR DETAILS CONTACT: [Name of Facilitator and Email] Herrenknecht Tunneling Systems, to turn the machine around before [Name of School] NAMING CONTEST DATES: Winner Announced Spring 2021 Oct. 12 - Nov. 13, 2020 HAVE FUN, GET CREATIVE AND BE IMAGINATIVE! a world-leader in mechanized it spends another year digging a Register by October 23, 2020 For more information, call Delceno Miles at 757-499-9627 or email [email protected] tunneling, is manufacturing the parallel twin tunnel on its way back TBM for the project. In addition to to the South Island. customized specifications such as Crews are expected to run the diameter of the completed tunnel, machine six days a week, with Herrenknecht tailors the cutter head mulitple shifts per day. Each tunnel to accommodate the specific soil will be about 8,000 feet long, and the makeup along the tunnel’s path. deepest segments will be about Herrenknecht is expected to deliver 150 feet below the water’s surface. DID YOU KNOW? the TBM in Fall 2021. The machine That’s about 50 feet deeper than will then be assembled in a 65-foot the existing tunnels. pit on the South Island. The assembly The HRBT Expansion During active mining, the TBM will Project Team invited process will take four to six months. tunnel like an earthworm, cutting local middle school Tunneling is expected to begin in through soil and sediment while students to participate early 2022. The assembled TBM removing waste. It’s expected to in a naming contest will be four-stories tall, over 400- remove 1.2 million cubic yards of for the TBM. Names feet long, and weighs over 4,000 earth while boring. As the tunnel were judged based tons or eight-million pounds. For forms, the TBM simultaneously on creativity and the tie to the Hampton perspective, the TBM is the weight of installs concrete rings, like ten fully loaded Boeing 747s.
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