Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System (HBLRT) Design Build Project, New Jersey
Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System (HBLRT) Design Build Project Design of Retaining
Wall and Viaduct Piers (Drilled Shafts)
Client
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
(George Harms Construction Co. Inc- General Contractor)
Owner
New Jersey Transit
The project involves the design and construction of a long viaduct, a station building, retaining walls, stairs and other ancillary items to support the Hudson Bergen Light Rail System (HBLRT) tracks in Bayonne, New Jersey. The project is a Design Build Project with a construction cost of $ 55 Million. The project involves the design and construction of a viaduct to support two tracks for the Hudson Bergen Light Rail System, a Station Building, a Retaining Wall at the end of the viaduct, Emergency Stairs for NJ Transit personnel to access the tracks from the street level and other ancillary structures.
The viaduct consists of concrete Drilled Shafts with capbeams to function as hammerhead type piers supporting the steel stringers for the tracks. The Retaining Wall consists of a soldier pile and lagging system. Precast reinforced concrete panels are used as lagging with steel beam soldier piles. The soldier piles will receive a concrete facing for aesthetic purposes. The concrete lagging panels will have formliner. |
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Services Provided:
- Design of the Retaining Wall.
- Analysis of some of the Drilled Shafts for the viaduct
- STAAD modeling for the Drilled Shaft Soil-Structure interaction analysis.
- Design of the Emergency Stairs.
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