Project Description
I-69 Design Build Interchange
Hopkins County, Kentucky
“I’m not any more proud of anything we’ve done.”
Governor Steven Beshear
November 16, 2015
“I’m not any more proud of anything we’ve done” than the designation of 97 miles of I-69 in Western Kentucky, said Governor Steven Beshear, asserting it would have “a long-lasting impact” on the region.
“It will bring a lot of advantages,” including safer travel and serving as “a powerful tool for economic development,” Beshear said. “All you have to do is go anywhere in the United States and see what an interstate brings,” he added.
Others agreed.
Upon receiving the interstate designation, Christian County Chamber of Commerce President Carter Hendricks declared, “Having that Interstate designation … creates more marketability from an economic development perspective.”
The lynchpin of the conversion of the parkway system in western Kentucky to I-69 is the reconstruction of the Western Kentucky Parkway Interchange with the Pennyrile Parkway.
This project was selected as a design build candidate in the fall of 2013. In two months, our design build team developed final level construction plans for this $29 million interchange.
One exceptional item that we encountered was working hand in hand with both Atmos and Orbit Gas companies to provide a design solution to eliminate impacts to two major gas crossings.
At the peak of plan development over 25 engineers and technicians were working simultaneously to ensure the prompt completion of all plans. Construction on the interchange was completed in October 2015.
Madisonville District 2
Mr. Brad Houck, PE
270-871-2582
Aerial Innovations of TN & KY, Inc.
202 South 17th Street Nashville, TN 37206
o: 615.650.2002