Owner: Jacksonville Transportation Authority

Bid Amount: $22 million

Project Description: 1.6 mile- long roadway realignment and tight urban diamond interchange project that will create a grade-separated intersection. The project will require the construction of two bridges to span Kernan Blvd. and MSE walls to contain the approaches. Signalization, roadway, maintenance of traffic, lighting, roadway drainage, signing and marking, utility relocations, supporting electrical supply, overhead sign structures, sidewalks, barrier wall, clearing, grubbing, and mass grading is also included.

Duration of job: 22.5 months

Estimator: Rob Lightfoot

Crew members:
Project Manager- Michael J Zanella
Field Engineer- Fred Sumter
Superintendent- Jamie Lewis

Owner: Orange County Expressway Authority

Bid Amount: 18.3 million

Project Description: Project consists of new interchange off of 417 onto Moss Park Road, new entrance and exit ramps including two toll plazas, a new bridge for the exit ramps and widening of existing 417 overpass over Moss Park, storm drainage and asphalt work

Duration of job: 18 months

A $26,000,000 contract was awarded to OPC by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority for the milling and resurfacing of SR-528 from Boggy Creek Road east to SR-520. This project involves the placement of over 185,000 tons of asphalt over 85 lane miles and must be completed in 300 calendar days.

NAPA (the National Asphalt Pavement Association) announced last month that both Jacksonville asphalt plants, the Shad and Soutel, earned NAPA’s Diamond Achievement Award for Excellence in Hot-Mix Asphalt Plant/Site Operations.

The Diamond Achievement Award is given to HMA (hot mix asphalt) production facilities that are superior in appearance, operations, environmental practices, safety, permitting and compliance, and community relations. NAPA Chairman Jim Roberts commended Atlantic Coast Asphalt for their success. “By earning the Diamond Achievement, Atlantic Coast Asphalt has shown the community that it will go the extra mile for excellence,” said Roberts.

The Soutel Plant has been in production for less than a year and has already won its first Diamond Achievement. This will be the seventh year in a row that the Shad plant has achieved the award.

“I would like to thank all of our plant employees for their hard work and for making a better environment and better place to work,” said Larry Pruitt, Vice President of ACA asphalt division.

A special thanks to the following employees who made this award possible: Kevin Crews, David Bone, Warren Swaner, Randall Bristol, Robert Astorino, Scott McCrary, Steve Solerno, Jesse Day, James Gay, Bennett O’Steen, John Padgett, David Elliott, Marcus Terrell, and Ronald Williams.

The Diamond Achievement award is sponsored by NAPA, an association that exclusively represents the interests of the hot-mix asphalt trade. The award was open to industry members and was judged by an independent panel of judges.