Urban served as the Construction Management Consultant and played a key role in advancing the project’s completion date a full year ahead of schedule.
As the U.S. 1 Corridor continues to experience increased travel growth, reaching an average daily traffic of over 90,000, PennDOT has made ensuring safety a top priority. To address safety issues, PennDOT is undertaking a multi-phase improvement program to reconstruct, widen, and improve travel on U.S. 1 and select intersections.
The $111 million RC2 Section is the second of three major phases to enhance safety, capacity, and mobility along the corridor. RC2 stretches five miles from south of the Rockhill Drive Interchange to north of the Penndel Interchange. Urban served as the Construction Management Consultant and played a key role in advancing the project’s completion date a full year ahead of schedule.
RC2 Improvements included expanding the highway from two to three lanes in each direction and updating the Neshaminy and Penndel/Business Route 1 interchanges. Major project elements included:
By implementing several innovative strategies, Urban was able to accelerate the project completion date. A revised Traffic Control Plan allowed concurrent construction of the Northbound Neshaminy Creek and Southbound Railroad Bridges. Early completion of the southbound structure enabled a major traffic shift that accelerated activities.
The team also managed sensitive and technically complex tasks, including girder installations beneath live rail and active power lines, community-sensitive blasting, and archaeological preservation, all with zero safety incidents and robust stakeholder support.
Urban led all aspects of construction management for the project, including schedule management, stakeholder engagement, and public outreach.
Quality, Cost, & Schedule Performance
In recognition of its complexity, stakeholder collaboration, and ahead-of-schedule delivery, the project was honored with the 2025 CMAA Mid-Atlantic Project of the Year Award in the Mega Project (over $100 million) category.