NYSDOT Kew Gardens Interchange

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CONTENT EXPIRES: December 31, 2024

The Kew Gardens Interchange Phase 4 (KGI4) project is a Design-Build initiative by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to reduce congestion and improve the flow of traffic in the Queens Borough of New York City. The project consists of a complex interchange of the Grand Central Parkway, JR Parkway, UTP and the VWE where several ramps and roadway bridges connecting the Interchange’s roadways are being reconfigured to eliminate stop conditions for a smoother and safer flow of traffic. The project consists of 11 complex multi-span curved steel girder bridge replacements across 20 different highway alignments including retaining and miscellaneous drainage structures, utilities. HDR served as lead designer for Halmar International, LLC on this $336 million phase 4 design-build project. The project required extensive coordination across multiple disciplines such as bridge structures, geotechnical engineering, highway geometry, work-zone traffic control, ITS, traffic signaling, landscape architecture, drainage, lighting and 3D CIM modeling. Throughout the project, there was interactive communication and coordination between the Design-Builder consortium and NYSDOT using state-of-the-art database and communication platforms such as Quickbase, Bluebeam, One Note and Projectwise that provided logging of key decision-making, qualitative comment tracking procedures and timelines for close-out of Design Plans prior to release-for-construction.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate extensive coordination on Design-Build projects

2. Key principles of delivering fast-paced projects in a congested landscape

3. Learn different perspectives from designer, contractor and owner in delivering a complex bridge project

4. Share technical, project management and construction challenges encountered

Nachiket Phansalkar, PE, ENV SP, DBIA

Deputy Structures Section Manager

HDR

Nachiket Phansalkar is a DBIA Certified Deputy Structures Section Manager for HDR's New York City Office. He is a professionally licensed Senior Bridge Engineer in the states of New York, Ohio, and a sustainability professional with 15 years of experience doing conventional as well as complex Design-Build Bridge projects in in the NY/NJ region and Canada. Nachiket also has executive education in leadership from MIT Sloan School of Management

Sean Burke, P.E.

Executive Vice President

Halmar International LLC

Sean Burke has over 30 years’ experience on highway, bridge and transit projects which included major Concrete and Steel Structures in the Hudson Valley and NYC Metropolitan area. In the past 20 years has had the role of General Superintendent, Project Manager and/or Area Manager on all Halmar’s Major Bridge & Highway Projects. The far majority of these Projects were Design-Build Bridge & Highway Interchanges ranging in size from $30 m to $425m.

Michael Martello, P.E.

Principal Project Manager

HDR

Michael Martello, P.E., brings 15+ years in delivering large multi-million and multi-billion-dollar design-build projects such as: NYSTA Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, NYSDOT Kew Gardens Interchange, PennDOT P3 RBRP, and NYSDOT Van Wyck Expressway Contract 2. For Kew Gardens Interchange Phase 4, Michael served as the Design Project Manager where his team delivered the replacement of an extremely complex highway interchange in NY. Michael received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College