Nan opened the new Ka’u side lanes on Palani Road today. Robert Bothman Construction, Nan’s concrete paving subcontractor, did a great job constructing this new roadway.
Robert Bothman Construction is slated to begin slip form concrete paving tomorrow morning from the West Hawaii Civic Center towards the Henry Street intersection.
Gomaco slip form concrete paving machine
Lastly, the manager overseeing the Palamanui College roadway project recently provided this project update:
“Regarding the Collector Road project, KKCC will finish the HELCO underground package in the next 2 weeks, which will allow HELCO to complete the cutover to the new poles on the south side of Kaiminani. This will allow us to complete the intersection work and begin installing the base on the Collector Road.”
He also told me Urban Works, the architect firm who is designing the future Palamanui Campus, is diligently working to meet the design deadlines, so the UH could apply for building permits by next month.
January 20th, 2012 at 3:23 PM
There should be a radical quality improvement between the surface paved with the Gomaco slip form paver and the work done on Palani. I sure hope Nan does a better job with the north side of the roadway than they did on the south. What they’ve laid so far is a rough ride.
And it’s unfortunate the requirements didn’t call for Nan to have all equipment on hand before starting paving work. As it is there will be vast differences in quality now.
January 20th, 2012 at 4:29 PM
The contractor wasn’t planning to use the slip form paver on Palani. They were going to manually pour the concrete pavement for this roadway segment. Their plan all along was to start reconstructing Palani before the slip form machine showed up.
Nan’s concrete sub doesn’t own the Gomaco paver. They brought it over to do the West Hawaii Civic Center to Henry Street segment only.