FARMINGTON ROAD STREETSCAPE
Location: Grand River Ave to Orchard Street - Farmington, MI
Concrete Contractor/Supplier: Florence Cement Company
Engineer: OHM Advisors
QA/QC Consultant: G2 Consulting Group, LLC.
Owner: City of Farmington
The road was reconfigured from two lanes in each direction to one and a left-turn lane. The streetscape project included rebuilding and widening the sidewalks along Farmington Road adding benches, bicycle racks, disability-friendly crosswalks, decorative light posts, and raised planters along its sidewalks.
The project was constructed by Florence Cement Company paving the roadway full length with the slip form machine. The northbound lane was poured first at 23-foot wide, waited for cure, then FCC paved the 12-foot-wide southbound lane with the slip form machine.
What made this project unique was during the first slip form pour at 23’ wide, in the middle of the job there was a 175’ section of the roadway with an island and the roadway tapered to 11 feet wide. The island was boxed out so FCC could use the slip form machine to pave from end to end even with the road going from 23-foot wide to 11-foot wide and then back to 23-foot.
