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How UDOT Delivered Olympic-Level Infrastructure with ATSER’s Help

Project

When Salt Lake City was chosen to host the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) faced an enormous challenge: modernize a critical transportation corridor under an immovable deadline.

The Goal?

Complete 17 miles of roadway and 132 bridges with a price tag exceeding $1.3 billion—on a fast-tracked design-build schedule requiring $1 million worth of construction per day.

Challenge: Olympic Pressure and No Room for Delay

UDOT’s construction program became one of the most ambitious transportation initiatives in U.S. history at the time. With the international spotlight on Utah, failure was not an option. The state needed to accelerate construction schedules while ensuring the highest standards in quality, safety, and accountability. The complexity was compounded by managing multiple contractors, labs, and data sources across the vast project footprint.

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Solution

Solution: ATSER’s Project Management and Quality Intelligence

To meet the scale and pace of the project, UDOT brought in ATSER to serve as the quality backbone of the effort.

ATSER delivered:

Comprehensive Project Management Services
Oversight of the Quality Assurance Program
Engineering Inspection and Verification Testing
A web-based software solution for lab and field data collection, analysis, and reporting

Most notably, ATSER implemented one of the first “paperless” electronic laboratory systems in the industry.
This system centralized data from four independent labs, collected both online and offline, and automatically transmitted results to UDOT’s central server providing real-time visibility and compliance tracking.

Results: Record-Breaking Delivery, Unmatched Visibility

With ATSER’s technology and services:

UDOT successfully met its Olympic construction deadline
Over 17 miles of highway and 132 bridges were completed on time
Quality data was tracked, analyzed, and reported seamlessly across teams
The project became a national benchmark for large-scale design-build delivery

It remains one of the largest and most successful transportation infrastructure projects in U.S. history using design-build contracting.

A respected industry leader, providing innovation and automation, ATSER® connects construction and technology, from concept to completion.