Transportation

SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement

A four-lane, four-block downtown viaduct built as a structurally independent tunnel beneath a working street.

Deep excavation and temporary works engineering for a cut-and-cover viaduct in a congested downtown core.

A stacked, unbalanced section required staged temporary support, underpinning of existing utilities, and a spoil management plan that kept deliveries flowing on a constrained urban street network.

Scope of work

  • Tunnels & Underground Engineering
  • Construction Management
  • Structural Engineering
SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement — Seattle, WA
SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement, Seattle, WA. Hoffman Tunnels provided tunnel and underground design, engineering and construction-phase support.

Project facts

Length
4 blocks
Lanes
4
Format
Cut-and-cover
Completion
2013
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