To create the first significant stretch of High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in southwestern Michigan, Kapur was chosen to provide construction survey services – including control, staking, and layout – for this $224 million reconstruction project of I-75 between Detroit and Flint.
It included:
By utilizing best practices and leveraging some of the latest data distribution technologies, Kapur was able to stay ahead of construction crews for all tasks, placing a special emphasis on having the latest plan sets and models automatically downloaded and loaded into equipment.
A cloud solution for scheduling and tracking also allowed everyone involved to know where crews were and what portion of the project they were working on. This form of constant communication saved a great deal of time with contractor staff, and a simple text was all that was needed to quickly make the necessary resources available to meet the ever-changing project needs.
Kapur also improved the setting of control for stringless paving operations by creating shortcuts in control that did not impact results and adjusted error checking methodology to perform in a smaller window of time before paving began – achieving a first on a $224 million interstate reconstruction project.
