Current Alaska Projects
Sitka: Kaitlin Bay Road
Location: Sitka, AK Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2019 End Date: 2023 This project includes the construction of approximately nine miles of a new single-lane gravel road with intervisible turnouts. The project begins at the end of Halibut Point Road in Sitka, Alaska, and continues northerly to Kaitlin Bay. Work includes construction of 300 culverts and two bridges over the South Katlian River and Katlian River. |
Alaska Highway MP 1309 Tok River Bridge Repair
Location: Tok, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2018 End Date: 2019 This project replaces an existing 250-foot-long steel truss on the Alaska Highway over the Tok River, about four miles east of Tok. The project requires a 280-foot-long x 32-foot-wide detour bridge that will be built this fall, 2018. The new permanent structure is a three span, 360-foot-long x 43-foot-wide bridge founded on 24-inch driven pipe pile at the abutments and 36-inch driven pipe pile at the piers. The bridge superstructure is a typical 54-inch deep Deck Bulb-T precast girder design. Work will start fall, 2018, shut down for the 2018-2019 winter, and start again in early spring to begin with construction of the new bridge. |
Parks Highway MP 231 Enhancements CM/GC
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2016 End Date: 2021 Hamilton Construction has partnered with Great Northwest Inc. as the CMGC team contracted by Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities for this project near the Denali National Park. To enhance safety and mobility, the project includes new pedestrian facilities, a rest area, and intersection improvements. Our team will replace the Nenana River Bridge to add turn lanes, eight-foot shoulders, a multi-use path, and pedestrian underpasses at the MP 231 intersection and the north bridge abutment. We will also construct a wayside and turn lanes for the new wayside, the MP 231 intersection, and the Old Parks Highway intersection at MP 230. We are currently working with ADOT&PF on the conceptual designs and constructability as part of the preconstruction phase. Construction is expected to begin in 2018 and estimated to complete in 2021. |
University Avenue CM/GC
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2015 End Date: 2019 Hamilton Construction is teamed up with Great Northwest Inc. (GNI), a well-known Alaskan heavy highway contractor to build this project which will rehabilitate and widen University Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska. The project extends from the Mitchell Expressway south past the Chena River and replaces the Chena River Bridge crossing. The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) project presents many challenges including acquisition of property, relocation of utilities, and replacement of a bridge on a busy transportation corridor. Our team is currently working through the preconstruction phase of the project. |
Featured Completed Alaska Projects
Parks Hwy MP 237 Riley Creek Bridge Replacement CM/GC
Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities in cooperation with the Alaska Division of the Federal Highway Administration Start Date: 2013 End Date: 2016 Hamilton was prime contractor on ADOT&PF’s first Heavy Civil CM/GC contract, involving construction of a new two-span, 230-foot deck bulb-tee girder bridge over Riley Creek, realignment of the Parks Highway, heavy pile driving, cast-in-place concrete, excavation, grading, paving, and drainage. We also added left and right turn pockets, and constructed a wider bridge with increased shoulder width for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. This project was completed a full season ahead of schedule. Our team realigned the Parks Highway to upgrade a substandard curve and minimize traffic impacts during construction. Alignment grade was dropped under ARRC Bridge to allow clearance for larger loads. The project won the AGC 2015 Excellence in Construction Award. |
Phillips Field Road Safety Improvement
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2018 End Date: 2018 Construction of a 600-foot-long soldier pile retaining wall to facilitate the widening of Phillips Field Road adjacent to the Chena River in Fairbanks, AK. Structural elements include driven H-Pile, precast colored lagging panels with an architectural finish, and a cast-in-place concrete coping wall. |
Front, Mill, and Stedman Street Reconstruction
Location: Ketchikan, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2018 End Date: 2019 Concrete rehabilitation, joint repair, and overlay work on three waterfront viaducts in Ketchikan, AK. |
Glenn Highway and Muldoon Road Interchange Improvements
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2016 End Date: November 2018 Hamilton is working with with Neeser Construction to provide the structural work on this project that replaces the existing Muldoon Road Interchange on the Glenn Highway near Anchorage. This interchange is a major gateway to Anchorage at its northern most junction. The new Diverging Diamond Interchange will replace the existing cloverleaf. The bridge work includes parallel two-span 222-foot-long bridges founded on driven H-pile at the abutments and 36-inch steel pipe pile at the bents in the median. The superstructure consists of 54-inch Deck Bulb-T girders with an asphalt overlay and waterproofing membrane. Additional work includes ornamental pedestrian bridge railing, cast-in-place concrete coping, and barrier rail for the MSE walls. |
Glenn Highway Chickaloon Bridge
Location: Sutton, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2015 End Date: 2016 This project is located at MP 78 of the Glenn Highway. The new bridge will be a three-span 45-foot x 350-foot-long precast bulb-tee girder bridge with cast-in-place deck. The two center piers are 10-foot-diameter shafts approximately 55-feet-deep and the abutments are four each, 5-foot shafts (two abutment) approximately the same depth. Work requires building a seven-span work bridge and driller slips. |
Parks Highway Rehab MP239
Location: Healy, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2014 End Date: 2015 This is a seismic retrofit project involving 10 bridges located in Healy, Alaska. These bridges and highway serve as the main link between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Work included pouring concrete infill walls between existing pile, widening existing concrete caps and beam seats, widening of existing abutments and beam seats, installing seismic cable restrainers, constructing new approach slabs, concrete deck repair, bridge deck overlays, polyester concrete placement, jacking a three-span 890-foot-long double truss bridge to replace eight friction pendulum bearings, and replacement of all bridge rail. |
Seward Highway Bridges
Location: Seward, Alaska Client: Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities Start Date: 2011 End Date: 2013 Hamilton Construction Co. recently completed construction on three Seward Highway bridges located about a half hour north of Seward (1-1/2 hours south of Anchorage). The project involved replacement of three bridges including two 149-foot single span bridges; and a three-span, 383-foot structure. |