A $66 million project to upgrade the Dadeland South Intermodal Station in Miami is heading into the final stretch, with completion expected by the end of this year. The project reached a major milestone last fall with the placement of a 57-ton precast steel canopy over a weekend.
The project will facilitate transfers between Metrorail and bus rapid transit. The recently completed 20 miles South Dade Transitway ends in the north at the 40-year-old station, which welcomes about 10,000 people a day, says Alex Barrios, assistant director of construction with the Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works. “We are dmaking these improvements to allow the rail core experience to happen.”
NV2A Group, with designer Stantec, has the design-build contract, which increased from $66 million to about $73 million due to the addition of bus charging stations and more escalators, says Alhasan Diab, NV2A project manager. With steel fabricator Suncor and erector Edrian Steel, NV2A developed the lift plan for the 42-foot-wide, 500-foot-long canopy, using a 500-ton crane with a 59-foot radius and 330,700 pounds of counterweight to lift it over a large boulevard and railroad tracks.
“The preparation for the canopy was huge,” says Diab. “Everything was surgical. It was a schedule, followed to the minute.” Tolerances were 1/8 inch, he adds.
The canopy is an extension that will protect the last two of a six-car train from the elements, Barrios says. The team will build other smaller canopies in the bus rapid transit zone and a new surface parking lot.
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