Sloan Construction Upstate Wins Pinnacle Award

pinnacle210Sloan Construction Upstate Wins the 2007 AGC Pinnacle Award for Best Heavy-Highway Project Improvements to the Interchange of US 176 and Interstate-585 at Spartanburg, S.C.

 

Sloan Construction Company was presented the 2007 Pinnacle Award on Friday evening, January 18, 2008 at Carolinas AGC’s 87th Annual Convention outside Miami. The awards ceremony is a traditional highlight of the convention. The judges are not obligated to present an award in a given category if they feel there are no true “A+” entries, thus maintaining the level of excellence of the Annual Pinnacle Awards.


Sloan’s $36 million project involved over 7 miles of urban road widening and the replacement of a total of seven bridges over Highway 176, I-585 and I-85. The improved bridges and exchanges provide a new “front door” not only to the USC Upstate college campus but to the City of Spartanburg itself.

 

Project Highlights

  • 400,000 cubic yards of excavation
  • 54,000 square feet of MSE walls
  • 40,000 linear feet of storm drain and curb & gutter
  • 194,000 tons of asphalt
  • 1 million pounds of reinforcing steel
  • 1,700,000 pounds of structural steel girders
  • 4,000 cubic yards of concrete

 

This massive 33-month project was completed ahead of its original schedule and on budget.


The SCDOT highly commended Sloan’s value engineering efforts for the overwhelming traffic switch issues, and the owner called this project “one to brag on.” But one of the panel judges expressed the project’s complexity much more colorfully, stating “The I-585 Phase 1B would be like paving a street inside the Daytona Speedway during the Daytona 500!”

 

You can read more about Sloan's Pinnacle Award here.

 

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