The Interstate 295 Fayetteville Outer Loop project grabbed the top transportation award from the Southeast Design Build Institute of America on April 28. Balfour Beatty led a joint venture that won recognition in the projects exceeding $100 million category at the regional summit in Asheville.
The 6-mile segment runs from east of Camden Road in Hope Mills to I-95’s Exit 38 in northern Robeson County. The team widened I-95 to eight lanes here, too. Balfour Beatty partnered with Branch Civil Inc. and STV Engineers Inc. on the Wilmington-based joint venture.
The design team proposed building a temporary conveyor-belt bridge over I-95 to build up ramps and bridges where the interchange would go. The conveyor belt moved nearly 4 million tons of dirt from a borrow pit on one side of the highway to the other side, all without impacting traffic flow…