General Hitchcock Highway
(Mt. Lemmon Highway) 

This project included over four miles of roadway widening from the Bear Canyon Campground through the Windy Point Overlook to Willow Canyon, preserving all the natural rock hoodoos, which are very environmentally sensitive.  The project included 29 MSE retaining walls (11,100 M2), 80,000 M3 of roadway excavation, 57,900 M3 of waste, over 17,000 tons of asphalt paving, 522 M2 of counterfort concrete retaining walls, 1,100 M3 of riprap, over 1500 M of pipe culverts, and two box culverts.  The project also included architectural features such as stamped and colored PCCP, exposed aggregate sidewalks and parking lots, and rock masonry walls. Hunter was able to eliminate all of the waste on the project through value engineering proposals.  Hunter value-engineered the concrete retaining walls as MSE walls and box culverts as arch culverts.  The total amount of value engineering savings to the project was approximately $1 Million