WSP performed onsite inspection, layout including design changes, geotechnical inspection and testing, prepared records, maintained documentation, submitted pay estimates and change orders and worked with contractors and IDOT to safely complete construction of this significant project.
Throughout the project, our team kept the community informed of work progress assisting IDOT in public outreach campaigns with both the Village of Bensenville (residents, community groups and village officials) as well as the O’Hare cargo industry (a consortium of businesses and O’Hare officials). WSP was sure to inform stakeholders of any major activities and traffic stage changes that would affect traffic movements through the construction corridor.
The unique challenge of the $64 million project was integrating a major, high-volume regional arterial intersection reconstruction project within an active and closely-located railroad corridor. The intersection manages 65,000 vehicles combined with 25 freight train movements every day. Prior to the improvements, the intersection was rated by the Illinois Department of Transportation as one of the most-congested intersections in the Chicagoland area.
