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| Keywords: i-69 i69 interstate 69 interstate69 indiana monroe county monroecounty road interstate construction freeway concrete infrastructure gomaco gomaco gt 6300 gomacogt6300 slipform paver slipformpaver i-69 development partners i69developmentpartners isolux corsán usa isoluxcorsánusa On State Road 37 in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, a crew works to construct a median barrier wall as part of Indiana's I-69 Corridor Project to upgrade SR 37 to Interstate 69; looking east from about a half mile north of SR 37/SR 45 interchange. SR 37, formerly a median-divided, 4-lane highway, is being expanded to three lanes in each direction from the I-69/SR 37 interchange to the I-69/Sample Road interchange about 5 miles north of Bloomington. The installation of the concrete barrier wall allows Interstate 69 to utilize a right-of-way roughly equal to that of SR 37, thereby saving dozens of homes and businesses, which would have been otherwise in an expanded right-of-way, from razing. Of interest, note that no formwork is utilized to construct the barrier wall. This is now standard with machines such as the GOMACO GT 6330 Slipform Paver [pictured], which accept and shape wet concrete. As can be imagined, the wet concrete mix must strictly fall within certain parameters of consistency to be used in this type of construction. I-69 Development Partners; Isolux Corsán USA (Indiana I-69 Corridor Project, Section 5). On State Road 37 in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, a crew works to construct a median barrier wall as part of Indiana's I-69 Corridor Project to upgrade SR 37 to Interstate 69; looking east from about a half mile north of SR 37/SR 45 interchange. SR 37, formerly a median-divided, 4-lane highway, is being expanded to three lanes in each direction from the I-69/SR 37 interchange to the I-69/Sample Road interchange about 5 miles north of Bloomington. The installation of the concrete barrier wall allows Interstate 69 to utilize a right-of-way roughly equal to that of SR 37, thereby saving dozens of homes and businesses, which would have been otherwise in an expanded right-of-way, from razing. Of interest, note that no formwork is utilized to construct the barrier wall. This is now standard with machines such as the GOMACO GT 6330 Slipform Paver [pictured], which accept and shape wet concrete. As can be imagined, the wet concrete mix must strictly fall within certain parameters of consistency to be used in this type of construction. I-69 Development Partners; Isolux Corsán USA (Indiana I-69 Corridor Project, Section 5). | ||||
