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Military Access, Mobility & Safety Improvement Project
South Academy Boulevard widening and Pikes Peak region corridors, El Paso County, CO
The Military Access, Mobility & Safety Improvement Project (MAMSIP) is a $161 million, five-year program to improve the corridors connecting Fort Carson, Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station — funded by CDOT, El Paso County, the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority, and an $18.35 million federal BUILD grant. Built by SEMA Construction from June 2021 to July 2026, the program delivered safety improvements and a jug-handle intersection on CO 94; a full rebuild of Charter Oak Ranch Road with a new roundabout at Santa Fe Avenue; 7.5 miles of I-25 work between South Academy Boulevard and Fountain, including two replacement bridges, a concrete overlay, and a full-length median barrier; and finally the widening of South Academy Boulevard from two to three lanes in each direction, with bridge widening over Fountain Creek, US 85/87, and Bradley Road. Vivid Engineering served as the lead materials quality assurance testing firm for the program, overseeing all materials documentation, field testing, and inspection — including the South Academy Boulevard widening in El Paso County — to verify that every element met CDOT and FHWA standards for safety and durability.
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Ridgegate Parkway Widening
RidgeGate Parkway, I-25 to Meridian Village Parkway, Lone Tree, CO 80124
RidgeGate Parkway is the spine of Lone Tree's fast-growing RidgeGate development, linking I-25 and the Lone Tree City Center to the neighborhoods east of the interstate. To keep pace with that growth, the RidgeGate Parkway Widening Project expanded the corridor between I-25 and Meridian Village Parkway to add two through-lanes in each direction, including a split-alignment section, new bridges over Badger Gulch and Happy Canyon Creek, 8-foot pedestrian sidewalks, and a 12-foot cycle track running the length of the project. Partnering with Hamilton, Vivid Engineering provided construction field and laboratory materials testing for soils, concrete, and asphalt throughout the project. Our technicians tested embankment and backfill compaction, structural concrete for the new bridges, and asphalt paving as the corridor was built out, verifying that every element met the project's quality standards and giving the contractor results on the schedule the work demanded.
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Transportation
SH 7 Permanent Repairs Project
CO 7, South St. Vrain Canyon, Lyons to Raymond (MP 19 to 33), Boulder County, CO
The September 2013 flood devastated Colorado Highway 7 through the South St. Vrain Canyon, severely damaging or completely washing away nine miles of roadway and cutting off canyon access for two and a half months. Temporary repairs reopened the road, but a permanent fix had to wait. The SH 7 Permanent Repairs Project — the final permanent infrastructure project of Colorado's $750 million 2013 Flood Recovery Program, funded through FHWA Emergency Relief — permanently rebuilt 14 miles of the canyon between Lyons and Raymond. The $60 million project replaced temporary post-flood asphalt with a fully reconstructed roadway, restored 11,500 linear feet of St. Vrain Creek to a resilient natural channel, rebuilt embankments and drainage, added rockfall ditches and a four-foot uphill bicycle shoulder, and revegetated 28 acres of disturbed canyon — all while meeting a net-zero construction waste goal. Vivid Engineering Group worked alongside Kiewit Infrastructure Co. and CDOT Region 4 from September 2021 through November 2022, providing field and laboratory materials testing of soils, aggregates, concrete, and asphalt to verify that every material placed met CDOT standards — including the 38,500 tons of asphalt that make up the new canyon roadway. In a narrow canyon with a single access road and an active creek restoration underway, Vivid's technicians kept sampling and testing on the contractor's schedule so the corridor could reopen as planned.
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