EXCELLENCE IN PARTNERING AWARDS
Partnering Excellence in the Spotlight
AGC of California Honors Two Projects That Demonstrate a Commitment to Partnering
St. Jude Medical Center Northwest Tower project, Fullerton
Te awards recognize successful projects that overcame major challenges to complete successfully, due in large part, to a firm commitment to partnering, innovation, and teamwork.
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Projects Under $50 Million Winner: Myers & Sons Construction,
LP for Fix50 W/X Viaducts, Sacramento Myers & Sons Construction, Inc.
and Caltrans District 3 partnered to successfully deliver a challenging Structures Rehabilitation and Seismic Retrofit in the heart of downtown Sacramento. Te project rehabilitated a section of U.S. Highway 50 built in the early 1960s, known as the W/X Viaducts. Te Viaducts are two 2,530 feet long parallel structures, approxi- mately 90 feet wide, that carry 12 lanes of traffic over city streets, freight, and
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wo project teams received AGC’s Excellence in Partnering Awards for 2015.
light rail lines in downtown Sacramento. Te Fix50 project
required a complex mix of traffic handling, structures and roadway construction, public and stakeholder coordination, utility and underground construction, as well as a strong commitment to partnering. Early in the project, Myers partnered with Caltrans personnel to develop a Value Engineering Change Proposal that created a $1.3 million cost savings and significantly reduced the impact of construction on the traveling public. Te Myers-Caltrans team engaged stakeholders and local community partners to vet preliminary approaches and created a revised traffic control phasing plan. Te new plan reduced traffic congestion and negated
Myers & Sons Construction, LP received the award for Excellence in Partnering – Projects Under $50 Million. Left to right: Emily Boss, Mike Lewis, Clint Myers, and Kurtis Frailey.
impacts that had been built into the original project schedule. To further improve project delivery
and minimize any negative impacts, the Myers-Caltrans team developed a Sustainable Construction Commu- nication Plan that defined the lines of communication among team members
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