Meet the Team

The Jughandle Project is a complex transportation project that requires the expertise of diverse design professionals, technical specialists, and construction workers. Check back to this page often to learn about different featured team members and how the work of numerous individuals will lead to the completion of the project.

Team Organizational Chart

Mowat Construction Company

Mowat Construction Company is the prime contractor for the Jughandle Project. As the prime contractor, Mowat is responsible for all aspects of managing and constructing the new Hwy 213 bridge including scheduling, construction engineering, quality control documentation, and environmental permit compliance. Mowat is contracted to perform the following tasks:

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Mowat employees
involved with the project:

• 34 full time employees

Pile driving
Bridge construction
Traffic control
Sign structures
Cast-in-place retaining walls

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The project requires a unique plan for substantially constructing the new bridge "off-line" with the least impact to traffic flows. This method is known as "Rapid Bridge Construction."

Mowat is building the new bridge on a temporary support to the west of Highway 213. They will pull the new bridge superstructure into alignment with Highway 213 with a system of rollers, guides, and hydraulic jacks. There will be only one 104-hour closure of Highway 213 to remove the existing roadway, move the new structure into place, and reopen the new roadway to traffic.

The Highway 213 closure will occur in early 2012 over a four day time period, Friday through Monday, starting on a Thursday night. The exact dates and times of the closure will be made known at least a month before the closure will occur.

A significant amount of work must be completed during the closure of Highway 213 including excavation of 10,000 cubic yards of soil and construction of new approaches to the bridge. Mowat will follow an hour-by-hour schedule during the closure period.

Mowat is responsible for all in-house engineering of the temporary support structure for the new bridge. They are also responsible for establishing the sequence and time-frame of the Rapid Bridge Construction.

OBEC Consulting Engineers

OBEC provided design engineering services and is currently providing construction engineering services for the Jughandle Project. As the primary consultant for the City of Oregon City, OBEC has provided overall project management for a large team. The design of the project involved a high degree of complexity and the interaction of many disciplines of engineering. OBEC provided the bulk of structural and roadway engineering for this challenging and complex project. Their multifaceted role includes:

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OBEC employees
involved with the project:

• 15 full time employees during
the design phase
• 8 full time employees during
the construction phase

Performing design engineering for the bridge, retaining walls, sign supports, roadways, potable water, and sanitary sewer systems.
Designing extensive stormwater treatment systems for City and ODOT facilities.
Coordinating with utility companies and the Union Pacific Railroad.
Preparing the project specifications.
Coordinating qualification-based construction bidding, where the contract award was based on the contractor's bid price combined with a technical score for their key staff, previous experience, and project approach.
Managing, inspecting, and surveying the daily construction work.
Supporting construction of the project through design support such as submittal reviews, consultation, environmental compliance monitoring, and additional utility/railroad coordination.

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Whereas a project of this magnitude would normally take 9 to 12 months to design, OBEC worked under an accelerated schedule to complete the design in less than 6 months to meet the City’s desired construction start date.

One of the challenges for the project design and construction is widening Hwy 213 to three lanes while maintaining continuous traffic access. A key part of the innovative solution to this challenge is the rapid bridge construction of a steel plate girder structure.

50,000 cubic yards (5,000 dump truck loads) of soil will be excavated from the project's mitigation site to offset impacts to the floodplain and restore valuable wildlife habitat.

More than 5,500 feet of new waterline and sanitary sewer lines will be placed as part of the project.

GreenWorks, P.C.

GreenWorks provided the planting and irrigation design services for the Jughandle Project. GreenWorks’ landscape architects worked closely with the City of Oregon City and the design team lead, OBEC Consulting Engineers, to develop planting designs for the following:

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GreenWorks employees
involved with the project:

• 11 full time employees during
the design phase
• 4 full time employees during
the construction phase

A new landscape feature complementing the Oregon City sign with a planting palette of native and low-water, adaptive plants.
Pedestrian-friendly streetscapes and green street stormwater facilities along Washington Street, including a roundabout intersection at Clackamas River Drive.
Private property frontage improvements with vegetative screening at key locations.

See the Landscape Designs.

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GreenWorks’ design plans include: 82 street trees, 500 landscape trees, 25,000 shrubs, and groundcover plants.
GreenWorks developed a long-term planting approach for an approximately 6-acre site that is being restored to offset the project’s impacts to natural resources. It includes almost 4,300 native deciduous and coniferous trees and 2,400 native shrubs that will improve wildlife habitat.
The City will install six water efficient irrigation systems. Each system will use a solar powered controller during the planting establishment period to minimize energy use.
Once the planting establishment period ends, the solar powered irrigation controllers can be uninstalled and reused in future Oregon City planting and irrigation projects.

Fox Erosion Control & Landscape Inc.

Fox Erosion Control & Landscape is providing erosion and landscape services for the construction of the Jughandle Project, including:

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Fox Erosion Control & Landscape Inc.
employees involved with the project:

• 7-8 full time employees
• 6 seasonal employees

Installation of erosion control measures.
Import and preparation of soils.
Installation of in-ground irrigation systems.
Installation of trees, shrubs, groundcover and wetland plants.
Hydroseeding of permanent, restoration, and native plant seed mixes.

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Fox’s hydroseed truck has dual cannons and is capable of seeding nearly 1 acre of ground in 10 minutes or less.
There are 5 miles of irrigation pipe, 8 miles of control wire, and nearly 11 miles of dripline tubing that will be dug and buried for the Jughandle Project irrigation systems.
In order to have irrigation pipe underneath pavement and concrete, pipe installation must sometimes occur months before the rest of the irrigation system is complete.
Fox will check-up on the site for 1 year following construction completion to maintain irrigation systems and ensure plant establishment.