New bridges, widenings, seismic retrofits and deck replacements for state DOTs and local agencies, with foundations, substructure and superstructure all self-performed.
Bridges, highways and interchanges
Transportation
*We build and rehabilitate the bridges, interchanges and roadways that carry freight and commuters across the Pacific Northwest. Most of our DOT work is delivered under traffic, on windows measured in hours.
- Bridges built or rehabilitated
- 84
- Lane-miles of roadway paved
- 310
Overview
How we build for transportation owners
Transportation work is where Halvorsen Pike started in 1987, and it still accounts for roughly 45 percent of our annual volume. We self-perform the structural work that controls the critical path: drilled shafts, cofferdams, footings, columns, bent caps, girder erection, deck placement and barrier. When the schedule depends on a crane pick or a deck pour, our own crews and our own equipment fleet are the ones doing it.
Our superintendents have staged more than 120 bridge and interchange projects in live corridors. We build the traffic management plan alongside the construction schedule, not after it, and we coordinate closure windows, detours and haul routes with the owner, local jurisdictions, emergency services and freight operators before the first barrier is set.
The work is governed by AASHTO LRFD, state DOT standard specifications and, on federally funded projects, FHWA requirements including Buy America, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage and DBE participation. Our in-house quality program, documented under ISO 9001:2015, carries those requirements into daily inspection and test records the owner can audit.
Owner priorities
What matters on these projects
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Staying inside federal-aid compliance
Buy America certifications, DBE commitments, Davis-Bacon payroll reporting and LPA oversight are tracked by a dedicated compliance coordinator, so a federally funded job does not become a federal audit finding.
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Minimizing public disruption
Detours, nighttime closures and staged traffic switches are planned with the owner and incident-response teams, with lane-rental and liquidated-damage exposure priced into the schedule from the start.
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Protecting in-water work windows
Fish-window restrictions, turbidity limits and Section 404 and HPA conditions drive our means and methods for cofferdams, shaft installation and temporary work trestles.
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Designing for service life
Precast and prestressed elements, epoxy-coated and stainless reinforcement, and verified concrete mixes reduce lifecycle maintenance cost for structures expected to last 75 years or more.
By the numbers
Transportation work to date
- Bridges built or rehabilitated
- 84
- Lane-miles of roadway paved
- 310
- Interchange and ramp projects
- 46
- Tons of asphalt placed since 2015
- 1.1M
Capabilities
What we self-perform
6 capabilities our crews deliver for transportation owners.
Interchanges, widenings, reconstruction and paving, built under live traffic with staged closures and tight smoothness tolerances.
Cast-in-place and precast concrete for tanks, basins, structures and foundations, formed, reinforced and placed by our own crews.
Mass excavation, grading, soil improvement, stormwater and erosion control for plant sites, corridors and levees.
Design-build, progressive design-build and CM/GC delivery with early cost certainty, constructability input and a single point of responsibility.
Round-the-clock response to slope failures, washouts, main breaks and storm damage, on pre-negotiated on-call terms.
Projects
Recent transportation work
01 / Transportation / Shelton, WA
Skookum Creek Bridge Replacement
$5M–$25M · Design-Bid-Build · 2023
02 / Transportation / Camas, WA
Route 14 Interchange Reconstruction
$25M–$100M · CM/GC · 2022
03 / Transportation / Hood River, OR
North Fork Bridge Seismic Retrofit
$5M–$25M · Design-Bid-Build · 2018
Planning transportation work?
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