Balfour Beatty has completed construction on a new U.S. 70 Havelock Bypass in Havelock, North Carolina. A major connection from the Morehead City Port to Raleigh, the bypass will greatly improve mobility and further assist regional mobility and the growing economic development in eastern North Carolina’s rural areas.   <div>Located along the southwest side of Havelock and U.S. 70, the bypass begins north of the Havelock city limit and extends south through Carteret and Craven counties. Balfour Beatty built approximately 10-miles of a four-lane, median-divided highway to provide a more efficient and safer alternative to traffic congestion and maintain the demands of the growing area. </div>The project includes construction of 15 bridges, which will require the use approximately 5.8 million cubic yards of borrow material and 288,000 tons of asphalt. Further, the bypass includes a balanced mix of structure and roadway components, strengthening Balfour Beatty’s portfolio of previously completed projects with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.The Havelock Bypass project is a 10.4-mile green alignment with (2) –Y- lines that tie in on the East and West of the City of Havelock. There are 16 Bridges with the largest being twin 1600’ (5 & 6) and twin 900’ (10 & 11) structures. The project also has 9 miles of storm drain that ranges from 15”-84” and required over 5 million yards of borrow on the project to be placed in highly sensitive environmental areas cutting through the Croatan National Forest. Careful planning was necessary to establish access points for roadway and bridge construction through bogs and swamps and the existing railroad corridors owned by NCRR and the Department of Defense. Balfour Beatty also utilized a temporary work trestle in four locations where access across sensitive wetlands could not have otherwise been provided.The new bypass will create a high-speed alternative to the current roadway hindered by numerous traffic signals at intersecting side streets as well as vastly improve traffic and freight movement along the U.S. 70 corridor. " />