South Bay Expressway Honored with Four Awards in July

San Diego’s South Bay Expressway and its partners were honored this month with four awards for the road’s design and construction achievements.

Last week, South Bay Expressway received a 2008 Transportation Innovation Award from Women Transportation Seminar. The Transportation Innovation Award recognizes the region’s most innovative transportation solutions and the visionary professionals who design and create them. South Bay Expressway was nominated for the award by Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox.  .

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“South Bay Expressway has demonstrated that the public and private sectors can work together to complete a much-needed transportation project,” says Mayor Cox. “The project is a national example of a well-executed, successful public-private partnership.”

Earlier this month, South Bay Expressway and IBT Engineers were honored for design excellence in precast concrete design by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute.
South Bay Expressway received three PCI Design Awards based on the use of precast segmental technology to construct the project’s signature Otay River Bridge. In addition to winning the category “Bridges with Spans More Than 150 Feet,” South Bay Expressway took home two special awards.  Special award recipients were selected from a pool of all project submissions in all categories. South Bay Expressway received the “Harry H. Edwards Industry Advancement Award,” presented to projects that showcase the use of new technology and concept, and the “All-Precast Solution Award,” which recognizes structures constructed with a total-precast, prestressed concrete system.

“These awards celebrate the contributions South Bay Expressway has made to the community and the construction industry,” says Greg Hulsizer, South Bay Expressway CEO. “It is an honor to be recognized on a local and national level for our commitment to building and operating a first-class road.”

South Bay Expressway has received six additional awards in 2008, including:

• Conventional Highway Project of the Year TRANNY Award, California Transportation Foundation
• Excellence in Highway Design Award, Federal Highway Administration
• Globe Award, American Road & Transportation Builders Association
• Spirit of the Border Award, Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce
• Transportation Project Achievement Award, Construction Management Association of America
• And Concrete Bridge Award, Portland Cement Association

South Bay Expressway is a 10-mi express toll road that extends from SR-54 in Spring Valley to SR-905 near the International Border Crossing. The new connection provides convenient access to downtown, Sorrento Valley, I-8, I-15 North, Otay Mesa and Mexico. The construction of this first class express toll road was made possible through a public/private partnership, and is one of the first roads of its kind in California and the U.S.

Parsons was the general contractor on the project, which opened Nov. 19.

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