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14. Royal Oak 2020 Road Improvements-2

ROYAL OAK 2020 ROAD RECONSTUCTION IMPROVEMENTS

Location: Hillside Dr., Chester Rd., and Knowles St., Royal Oak
Contractor/Supplier: Mark Anthony Contracting
Owner/Engineer: City of Royal Oak

The city of Royal Oak funds about $5 million in local road repair work every year, through a $2.5 mill property tax assessment. With these funds, the city focuses their attention on local street repairs and reconstruction. The 2020 road reconstruction contract was established to address portions of existing city streets in Royal Oak that had pavement and drainage system failures.

Located in an older part of Royal Oak, this project had minimal space to work, and had to deal with local vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Mark Anthony’s crews were able mix, haul, and place almost 10,000 square yards of 7-inch-thick concrete pavement, utilizing a form-riding paver to spread and consolidate the majority of those 2,000 cubic yards of concrete produced for the project.

Being a residential area, maintaining traffic and access to resident's drives was a challenge depending on what phase of construction was being undertaken. Although faced with difficult conditions at times, the contractor had very few complaints and the City of Royal Oak was pleased with the quality of work as well as the timely completion of the street reconstruction. The quality of workmanship is evident and improves the aesthetics of the community with the new concrete roadways.

Maple road REconstruction 

Location: Southfield to Pierce and Old Woodward to Woodward, Birmingham
Contractor: Angelo Iafrate Construction Co.
Sidewalk Contractor: Eminent Contracting
Concrete Supplier: Paragon Ready Mix
Design Engineer: Nowak & Fraus Engineers
Construction Engineer: OHM Advisors
Owner: City of Birmingham

The reconstruction of Maple Road in downtown Birmingham was successfully completed by a team of contractors, subcontractors, and consultants under a compressed schedule with limited disruption to the central business district. The tight schedule included significant underground construction prior to the placement of concrete pavement. The concrete was placed with a combination of slipform pavers along with hand pours in the shorter, tighter, or odd-shaped locations. The phased sidewalk construction required the exposed aggregate sidewalk and planter boxes to be completed prior to installation of the standard sidewalk near the buildings. Protecting the buildings was of the utmost importance.

Although vehicular traffic maintenance was important, the more pressing issue was maintaining the pedestrian traffic to all businesses. To minimize cutting off pedestrian flow during construction, the removal and replacement of sidewalks was limited to 48 hours for any one section. Close coordination between the contractors, city, and businesses was key to completing the project with as little disruption as possible. The newly reconstructed road, along with the decorative curb planters, granite bench seating, and new streetlights give the downtown district a wonderful boulevard for their viewing and shopping pleasure.