Location:
Cleveland, Ohio

Owner:
Ohio Department of Transportation District 12

Client:
Michael J. Baker Corporation

Project Completion Date:
2010

Project Description:
The Ohio Department of Transportation has been working with the community to develop a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the Cleveland Innerbelt.  The Cleveland Innerbelt Modernization Plan is focused on improving safety, reducing congestion and traffic delays, and modernizing interstate travel along I-71, I-77 and I-90 through Downtown Cleveland. This investment by the State of Ohio will rehabilitate and reconstruct the Innerbelt Freeway system and address operational, design, safety and access shortcomings that severely impact the ability of the Innerbelt Freeway system to meet the 21st Century transportation needs of Northeast Ohio.

One of the components to the plan is rehabilitating the 50-year-old Central Viaduct, or “Innerbelt Bridge” which has a number of steel members that are aging faster than expected.  During the summer of 2009, as part of the Innerbelt Bridge Safety Plan, ODOT has invested $10 million in the effort to restore full use of the structure, a vital link into downtown Cleveland.

Barr & Prevost’s role as a subconsultant to Michael Baker Jr., Inc. in this phase of the Central Viaduct Rehabilitation project is to provide field survey services for the initial staking, and final locations and elevations of boring and pavement cores; and to collect, record, deliver and test more than 200 soil and rock samples for complete classification, water content or rock unconfined compressions.