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Ranger Construction Earns “Best In Construction” Award
(3rd Quarter 2010)
Celebrating Ranger Construction’s “Best In
Construction” award from the Florida Transportation Builders Association —
the
second
one
in four years for Ranger's North Division,
this time
for work on SR-414 in Orange County — are project team members, the engineering
consultant, and state and association officials. Seated L-R: Ranger Project
Superintendent Charles Geiger, Project Manager Scott Fowler and Scheduling
Engineer Lisa Jones; and Scott Leware of Leware Construction. Standing L-R:
Ricky Langley of DRMP (CEI); Ranger Foreman Scott Dickson and Area Manager Pete
Scholer; FTBA President Bonnie Rimmel; FDOT Secretary Stephanie C. Kopelousos;
Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority’s Ben Dreiling; FHWA Division
Administrator Martin C. Knopp; and FDOT Chief Engineer Brian Blanchard.
(Photo provided by FTBA)
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Central, South Team Up On $37 Million
I-595 Contract
(3rd Quarter 2010)
A major South Florida
corridor is getting a $1.2 billion makeover and Ranger’s Central and South
Divisions are key players on a $37 million segment of the work.
Under its largest public-private partnership to date, the state awarded a
design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract to concessionaire I-595 Express
to widen 10.5 miles of I-595 and add three reversible, variable-toll express
lanes between the eastbound and westbound lanes. The work includes upgrades to
SR-84, which runs tightly alongside I-595.
Ranger’s contract covers Segment D, about 2.5 miles that connect with Florida’s
Turnpike, US-441/SR-7, and I-95. The Central Division is handling grading and
utilities, overseen by V.P. Miguel Correa, who led the successful bidding
effort, while Ranger South is providing the asphalt and paving services.
Work on Segment D started in June and is scheduled for completion by the end of
2013. Including work by other contractors, the makeover will be finished in
2014.
Handling 180,000 cars a day, I-595 connects with I-75 and the Sawgrass
Expressway to the west, while providing access to Ft. Lauderdale International
Airport and Port Everglades to the east.
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Widening, Repaving
Winds Down On Okeechobee Blvd.
In West Palm Beach
(3rd Quarter 2010)
(Photos
by Carl Thiemann)
Paver Operator David Peach, Lead Man Fernando Reis, Asphalt
Raker Charles Brown and other members of a Ranger Construction
night shift asphalt crew lay
the final lift of pavement on Okeechobee
Boulevard in West Palm Beach, FL, as part of a two-year, $30 million contract to
widen and resurface 4.5 miles of the busy roadway.
The project involves using a
Shuttle Buggy (material
transfer vehicle) to continuously feed hot-mix asphalt
to the hopper attached at the front of the paver,
enabling the crew to lay longer stretches of pavement at a time
for the smoothest results.
Javoskia “Vot” Holmes operates a Shuttle Buggy to keep a
hopper attached to the front of the paving machine
filled with hot-mix asphalt.
Bryan Norris guides a dump truck delivering asphalt to
the bin of the Shuttle Buggy.
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