North Oak Trafficway Design-Build Named one of APWA KC Metro's Public Works Projects of the Year

The American Public Works Association (APWA) Kansas City Metro Chapter has named the North Oak Trafficway Design-Build as its Public Works Project of the Year in the Transportation Projects under $5-$25 million category. TREKK served as the project’s design consultant, with Radmacher Brothers Excavating as the primary contractor. The City of Kansas City, Missouri is the project’s owner.

The North Oak Trafficway corridor is a major north-south transportation link connecting more than 12,000 Kansas City residents to the Northland daily. This corridor serves as an economic engine for the City and the region, as well as a home to hundreds of businesses and several neighborhoods. This project is a critical link connecting these businesses, residents, and other amenities with multi-modal access, a new, reconstructed roadway, and streetscape improvements, paving the way for future phases of work along N. Oak Trafficway.

The primary goal of this project was to improve vehicle facilities that had reached the end of their useful life and enhance the pedestrian and bicycle environment with new facilities.

The project’s design-build methodology provided many opportunities for innovation and cooperation throughout design and construction. The design-build team attended the North Oak Focus Group monthly meetings, keeping them involved in the project design and construction. Team contractors, designers and City staff met individually with the group’s representatives to walk the project site, conceptualize the design, and coordinate funding. The design-build team used a variety of innovative approaches to achieving the project goals, including shifting the roadway centerline and adjusting the cross-slope to add pedestrian and bike facilities while avoiding property impacts and rubblizing existing concrete pavement in place to optimize cost and minimize haul-off.

All of the project work, including the additional scope, was completed within a very fast-paced, 12-month schedule. On top of the rigorous schedule, the team also had to contend with an extremely harsh 2018-2019 winter that caused construction delays.