The 272nd Street Improvements in Covington Washington included a single span 65 foot long x 88 foot wide bridge and approximatly 15,000 square feet of concrete fascia panel on geosynthetic retaining walls. The site constraints did not allow for a detour bridge to be construction so the new bridge had to be constructed in halves while traffic was diverted to the other side of the roadway. In order to improve the hydraulic window the new bridge elevation was raised several feet above the existing rodayway and new geosynthetic walls were constructed for the approaches.

The fascia panel for the geosynthetic walls was originally design as precast concrete panels. Franklin Pacific successfully convinced the City of Covington to allow the fascia panels to be shotcrete thus reducing the construciton schedule and costs. Furthermore what was originally designed to be built with simulated wood log end formliner was hand carved and stained in the wet shotcrete to create a much more aestically pleasing decorative feature. All stakeholders were extreamly pleased with the finished product.

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