Client: Illinois Tollway
Location: IL Rt 47 to Elgin Plaza
Client: Illinois Tollway
Location: IL Rt 47 to Elgin Plaza
In 2011, the Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved the 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future. Move Illinois committed $2.2 billion to rebuilding and widening of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90).
The improvements on this contract have improved safety with wider shoulder lanes and auxiliary lanes, reduced congestion, and thus improved travel times from Rockford to Elgin.
This Corridor Construction Manager role included the oversight of numerous contracts to reconstruct a 38-mile section of Interstate 90, the Jane Adams Tollway, from the western suburbs to Rockford, Illinois. The contract also covered construction management services for seven miles of roadway within that corridor.
The Irene Road Interchange Project built a new, full-access interchange connecting Irene Road and the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) in Belvidere as the fifth, all-electronic interchange on the Tollway’s system. In 2015, work included the construction of two new ramps to carry traffic to and from the west to complete the full-access interchange and included all-electronic toll collection. Coupled with the reconstruction of the Irene Road Bridge, the project cost for the three new ramps is $13 million. This project was coordinated with the city of Belvidere, Boone County, IDOT, and Flora Township.
d’Escoto, Inc. provided construction engineering services for the I-90 reconstruction between IL-47 MP 45.5 and Elgin Plaza 9 MP 53.6 as well as Corridor Construction Manager services from IL-39 MP 17.4 to the Elgin Plaza.
The Irene Road Interchange involved the construction of new entrance and exit ramps onto I-90. d’Escoto, Inc. employees provided nearly all of the inspection including paving, resurfacing, drainage, lighting, ITS, guardrail, erosion control, and landscaping.
Bridge crossings have included: Sleepy Hollow, Tyrell Road, IL-72, Hennig Road, Harmony Road, Garden Prairie Road, and Anthony Road. Our responsibilities included inspection of demolition, piling, MSE walls, concrete substructures and superstructures, beam setting, and pouring of the new bridge decks.
d’Escoto, Inc.’s scope of work included field supervision of all daily construction activities and contractors to ensure work was executed per project requirements, daily traffic control inspections, authorization to proceed review, and consultant quality assurance review.
Each of our inspectors also generated daily field inspection reports and documented production quantities for progress payments.
We also provided documentation with writing change and extra work orders, answered RFI’s, review submittals, and cut pay estimates.
