Engineers Estimate: Not reported
Construction Value: $815 million (52 year DBFOM)
Length: 26 miles
Owner: Texas Department of Transportation
Developer: Blue Ridge Transportation Group, LLC (ACS Servicios y Concesiones, InfraRed Capital Partners, Shikun & Binui Concessions USA, Inc. Northleaf Capital, Clal, Star America)
Contractor: Almeda-Genoa Constructors (Dragados USA, Pulice Constructors Inc., Shikun Binui America)
Construction Management: AVIV AMCG
Lead Design: Stantec
Design Support: AVIV AMCG, Wilbur Smith Associates, HNTB, Turner Collie & Braden, McClelland Engineers
O&M: Roy Jurgenson, Co.
Functional Class: Arterial
Greenroads Version: v2
The SH288 Toll Lanes Project is a critical connector to downtown Houston. As the city grows, so does the congestion in both Harris and Brazoria Counties. The purpose of the SH288 project is to relieve congestion and improve mobility and safety for corridor travelers. The project is expected to create 90,000 jobs, and provide $1.2 billion in economic benefit to the Houston metro area. The SH288 project upgrades approximately 26 miles of highway to a split toll and untolled facility in the existing highway right of way.
The scope of this major construction project includes the addition of four new toll lanes in the existing grassy median of the existing SH288 corridor, resurfacing of the existing untolled lanes in both directions, reconstruction of the IH610 interchange, new direct connectors at Beltway 8 and to the Texas Medical Center,and new underpasses at Brazoria County Roads 56, 57, 63, and 64, The project is funded as a public private partnership through federal, state and private investment as a 52 year DBFOM (design-build-finance-operate-maintain) development agreement.
The project was approved for construction in 2013 and the selected developer, Blue Ridge Transportation Group, LLC was authorized to proceed to construction in mid-2016. The project is expected to complete in 1000 days (late 2019) and is organized in six separate, concurrent phases of construction.as well as overpasses at County Road 48 and Rodeo Palms Parkway, and minor updates to frontage roads and connecting surface streets.
Website: http://drive288.com/
Video of construction zone recovery work after Hurricane Harvey