When it’s completed in 2025, the expanded bridge-tunnel will help relieve congestion and enhance travel time reliability.īut this project is making history in another way: the project’s design-builder has 79 female staff members and 212 female craft members contributing to all aspects of the undertaking-from engineering and design to construction operations, safety management and environmental compliance, finance and project administration. During tourist season this key transportation artery carries more than 100,000 vehicles per day.
Linking Hampton and Newport News with Norfolk and Virginia Beach, the bridge-tunnel is traversed by nearly three million vehicles every month every month. With a total budget of more than $3.8 billion, the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion is the largest highway construction project in Virginia’s history.
