ACTT WORKSHOP

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MDOT
I-94 Acclerated Construction Technology Detroit,
Michigan April 17-19, 2007
ACTT WORKSHOP
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MDOT ACTT WORKSHOP

• UTILITIES/ RAILROAD
• COORDINATION
• Final Presentation

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Utilities/Railroad Coordination

• Team Members
• Marion Leaphart, Utility Director, Coleman-Snow
  Consultants, (Retired Utilities Manager, SC DOT)
• Veena Jasuja, MDOT, Detroit TSC
• Nick Lefke, MDOT, Lansing, Real Estate
• Bill Stonebrook, MDOT, Lansing, Design
• Steve Rapp, MDOT, Lansing, Design
• Facilitator
• Anu Taneja, MDOT, Lansing, Contract Services
• Notes
• Lynn Venturino, MDOT, Lansing, Design Support

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Utilities
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Designate a full time MDOT utilities coordinator

• Oversee all aspects of utility coordination,
  communication, and cooperation during design and
  construction
• Act as go to person for MDOT, utilities, and
  vendors

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Utilize Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

• Have SUE provider available during design and
  construction
• Update current SUE data
• Utilize SUE deliverables effectively with
  stakeholders
• Expedites conflict resolution

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Identify and resolve municipal utility issues

• Early and often involvement of municipal
  utilities
• Early identification of potential show stoppers
  
• Identify all relocation and proposed new work
• Coordination with stakeholders

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Identify and resolve private/public utility
issues

• Early and often involvement of private/public
  utilities
• Early identification of potential show stoppers
  
• Identify all relocation and proposed new work
• Identify reimbursable relocations
• Advanced utility relocations
• Coordination with stakeholders

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Participate in preliminary engineering costs for
private/public utilities

• Provides incentive to private/public utilities to
  cooperate in a timely manner
• Increases cooperation during design phase

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Railroads
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Form Steering Committee of officials from MDOT
and Railroads (RR)

• Authority to make high level decisions
• Expedite RR decision making (i.e. trackage
  rights, union work rules, etc.)

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Form a Design Engineering Committee

• Early and often involvement of railroads
• Early identification of design constraints
• Early identification of potential show stoppers

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Provide adequate time for RR coordination in
the MDOT process

• Two year minimum coordination time
• Coordination time begins from submittal of
  preliminary plans from MDOT to RR

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Contract with qualified vendor to perform RR
coordination

• Vendor must be knowledgeable in RR operations
• Effective in obtaining RR approvals
• Involve MDOT RR experts in vendor selection
  process

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Coordinate at-grade crossings with service roads

• Diagnostic Team Review (DTR) meeting should take
  place well in advance of construction, if
  required

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Maintenance of RR traffic

• Early and often involvement of RR
• Construct temporary runaround shoo-fly tracks
• Part width bridge construction
• Roll-in/lift-in superstructure
• Build new permanent bridges parallel to existing
  RR
• Trackage rights agreements between RR during
  construction

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Possible elimination of two RR structures over
I-75

• RR approval required

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Questions