Manafort Brothers Incorporated was selected as the Design Build Contractor by the City of New Haven for the Downtown Crossing Phase 3 project in New Haven, CT. This project was the City’s first design-build project and it required an accelerated schedule allowing only six months to complete a Release for Construction Design to support a twenty-week closure duration for the complete reconstruction of South Frontage Road and Congress Avenue.
The project scope included all required design, including extensive maintenance of traffic measures, extensive road reconfiguration and reconstruction of South Frontage Road, Congress Avenue, and the Service Drives to the Air Rights Garage, accommodations for future planned bridge structures, new utility installation, relocation of existing utilities, permanent sheeting retaining walls, new southern concrete substructure for the future Temple Street Bridge, Rammed Aggregate Pier ground improvements for the future northern substructure of the future Temple Street Bridge, traffic and pedestrian signalization of the South Frontage Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard intersections, new street lighting, signage, and line striping.
This detailed urban roadway design build project required extensive and regular coordination with the City of New Haven and the two separate major ongoing building construction projects directly adjacent to the Downtown Crossing project. The Manafort Design Build Team was able to complete the design to commence construction in the allotted closure period. As part of this process, Manafort and the City of New Haven worked as a team to successfully navigate through Right of Way, Utility, and 3rd party needs, while resequencing and accelerating certain activities to keep the project on schedule. Despite the many challenges, Manafort was able to successfully deliver the project under budget and 46 days ahead of schedule. This project is a great example of what can be accomplished when all major stakeholders work and collaborate in true partnership form.
The New Britain to Hartford Busway Station Project was the initial contract awarded as part of the $500M CT fastrak Project. The project included the construction of a new Bus Station Facility including all site development, site infrastructure, an architectural pedestrian canopy, station supervisor building, demolition of an old multi-span freight railroad bridge, construction of a new 640 ft long dedicated busway bridge over RT 9, highway offramp widening, and intersection reconstruction.
Manafort went on to also be awarded two more bridge reconstruction projects, the Flatbush Avenue on ramp Viaduct and the Broad Street Bridges in Hartford, bringing Manafort’s total involvement in the CT fastrak Project to over $54M. All work was completed on time and on budget. Manafort served as Prime Contractor for the project and also self-performed excavation, cast-in-place concrete foundation, demolition, bridge, infrastructure, road, and highway work.
The Ware River slope stabilization project involved the construction of a new retaining wall to reinforce a failed slope in New Braintree, MA along the Right-of-way of an active railroad corridor. The original design provided by the client included a drilled soldier pile and precast lagging retaining wall. Manafort worked with the owner and designer and provided a value engineering design which changed the wall to a driven pile, with cast in place concrete pile cap, and precast concrete block retaining wall. With the change in wall type a credit was issued and approved by the owner.
The project was only accessible by hi-rail equipment so all equipment and materials were transported by Manafort via hi-rail equipment from a nearby grade crossing to the project site. The project consisted of 39 HP 14×89 driven piles, a cast in place reinforced pile cap, 2,067 SF RECON block retaining wall, rip rap slope stabilization, and wetland restoration.
Manafort served as Prime Contractor for the project and self-performed a majority of the work including the driven piles, retaining wall installation, all hi-rail equipment moves and rip rap slope stabilization.
Located near the mouth of the Narragansett Bay in North Kingstown RI, the Port of Davisville is listed among the top auto and frozen seafood ports along the East Coast of the United States. The pier offers four berths and five terminals with 58 acres of laydown and terminal storage. As part of the Reconstruction Project, Manafort Transit was contracted to construct 1200 LF of new marine bulkhead at the south side of Pier 2 to encapsulate the existing 1940s US Navy built cofferdam cells.
Work included predrilling to a depth of 60 ft to clear below grade obstructions, installation of 208 HZ-M king piles, 419 AZ and PS steel sheets for the sheeting wall system, 2,500 LF of walers, and 191 tie-rods anchored to 381 H-pile dead men piles. Other work consisted of pipe jacking, mass-excavation and backfill, hydro-demolition of the existing concrete cap, replacement of existing cap with a new cast in place concrete cap, four-foot diameter drilled caissons, toe-pin anchors, railroad construction to extend an existing rail line into the port, underwater anodes, fender system, marine bollards, and roadway reconstruction.
Manafort served as Prime Contractor for the project, self-performing most of the work. All work was completed safely, on time, and under budget.
