PA Turnpike – Southern Beltway SR 576


PA Turnpike – Southern Beltway SR 576, Washington & Allegheny Counties, Pennsylvania


LOCATION

Washington & Allegheny Counties, Pennsylvania

Project Highlights
  • 3,450,000 cy excavation, Class 1, 1B, and 2
  • 145,000 cy selected borrow rock Type B
  • 13,200 cy foundation mine grouting
  • 1,183 individually drilled 7" diameter bore holes (average depth 78.8', maximum depth 168')
  • 92,650 lf drilled grout injection bore holes
  • 162,000 sy subbase, 6" depth (No. 2A slag)
  • 99,500 sy Long-Life Concrete Pavement , 12" depth
  • 371,000 sy Superpave Asphalt Materials (base, binder, & wearing course)
  • 99,000 sy cement treated permeable base course
  • 38,000 lf drainage pipe (various types and sizes)
  • 336 inlets, endwalls, and manholes (various types and sizes)
  • 12 post-construction storm water ponds totaling 4.35 acres
  • 680 lf post-tensioned 9' x 9' concrete box culvert
  • 6,611,339 lb fabricated structural steel
  • 610,638 lb reinforcement bars
  • 2,554,593 lb epoxy coated reinforcement bars
  • 19,200 lf steel beam bearing piles
  • DBE percentage required & attained: 13%
Project Description

Constructed 1.82 miles of new four-lane concrete highway including an interchange, a 259 lf two-span prestressed PA bulb-tee beam bridge, a 685 lf three-span continuous composite steel bridge, dual 1015 lf four-span continuous composite steel bridges, and a 9′ x 9′ concrete box culvert.