SH 288 Design-Build Toll Road
Brazoria County, Texas
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Costello served as the Utility Design Task Manager (DTM) for the SH 288 design-build, toll road project located in Harris County, Texas. These improvements encompass a 10.3-mile stretch from US 59 to the Harris County line at Clear Creek.
The SH 288 expansion included:
Costello provided the following services:
The SH 288 expansion included:
- Construction of four tolled lanes, eight new tolled direct connectors at Beltway 8
- Construction of two new direct connector/ramp bridges at the Texas Medical Center
- Reconstruction of all eight IH 610 Interchange direct connectors
- Design, development, and installation of an Electronic Toll Collection System on the Toll Lanes in the project segments
Costello provided the following services:
- Conduct meetings/coordination with the SH 288 design team and twenty-six (26) utility owners within the project right-of-way
- Utility conflict identification, tracking, and conflict resolution
- Provided utility relocation plans for twelve (12) developer-managed relocations
- Identified and coordinated twenty-three (23) owner-managed relocations
- Preparation of utility agreements for relocations and remain in place utilities
- Prepare/coordinate two (2) TxDOT bridge attachment agreements
- Approval of new utility installation requests during design and construction phases
Relevant Project Services
- Utility Coordination/Agreements
- Utility Engineering
- Utility Relocation Design
Project Size and Cost
- 10.3 miles
- Estimated cost $900M
Unique Project Attributes
- Design-build project
- Bridge relocation with attached utilities
Challenges Faced
- Unresponsive utility owner
- Unknown utilities
- Unpermitted utility installations during construction
- Limited right-of-way for relocations
- Utility identification in an urban corridor
Resolutions & Results
- Seamless coordination negotiating relocation alignments, identifying unknown utilities, and working with unresponsive utility owners
- Early investigation of issues, removing roadblocks before they became a problem
- Successfully coordinated with the City of Houston and TxDOT, developing project-specific permitting processes to eliminate unpermitted installations