Elizabeth River Tunnels Project
Highlights
ENR
Best Highway/Bridge
ACEC Virginia
Engineering Excellence Grand Award
DBIA
Award of Excellence
136,602 cubic yards
of concrete
Project information
The project developed, designed and constructed a new two-lane, 3,770-foot tunnel under Virginia’s Elizabeth River parallel to the existing Midtown Tunnel. Work included maintenance and life-safety improvements to the existing Midtown Tunnel and two downtown tunnels, as well as extending the MLK Expressway.
Client:
Virginia Department of Transportation
Service:
General Contractor
Market segment:
Bridges, Tunnels
Size:
Start date:
Completion date:
City:
Portsmouth
State:
Virginia
Country:
USA
Cost:
$1,490,440,154
Behind the build
The Elizabeth River Tunnels Project involved five distinct areas of construction, and was one of the largest greenfield/brownfield transportation public/private partnerships in U.S. history and the largest undertaken by Virginia.
Step by step
Explore how we submerged 16,000-ton segments to create Virginia’s Elizabeth River Tunnel.
See the steps it took to deliver the ERT projectTunneling beneath the Elizabeth
Comprising 11 hollow segment elements, the new tunnel was the first deep-water, concrete-immersed tube tunnel in North America and the second all-concrete tunnel in the U.S.
Contact
Infrastructure
Stephen Skippen
Vice President, Business Development & Operations - Mid Atlantic