WGI is proud to share in the 2026 Florida Transportation Builders Association (FTBA) Best in Construction Award for Community Awareness, given to the SR 932 Preservation and Extension project in Miami-Dade County. WGI’s design covered 2.37 miles of resurfacing, rebuilt pedestrian ramps, and the traffic control plans that carried a year of detours through Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens without closing the corridor or disrupting the two schools alongside it.
Recognition and Award Significance
The Florida Transportation Builders’ Association gave its 2026 Community Awareness Award to the Preservation and Extension SR 932/NW 103 Street/West 49th Street project, a Florida Department of Transportation District 6 job. FTBA’s Best in Construction Awards recognize the companies and individuals behind the most innovative, complex, and impactful projects in Florida each year.
The award goes to the project rather than to any single firm. Bacallao Construction & Engineering was the contractor, Castillo Engineering, Inc. served as CEI consultant, and WGI took the roadway design from concept through construction documents.
Resurfacing a Corridor That Couldn’t Close
SR 932 is an urban minor arterial. In this stretch of Miami-Dade, commuter traffic runs past businesses and homes with almost no buffer between the road and the buildings beside it.
The project ran from west of NW 82 Avenue to east of West 6 Avenue, covering 0.45 miles of four-lane undivided roadway and 1.92 miles of six-lane divided roadway. Construction began April 7, 2025, ran about a year, and cost $8.3 million. None of it could happen behind a full closure, because there was no comparable route nearby to absorb the traffic.
WGI’s design scope covered milling and resurfacing, including special milling and resurfacing, along with pedestrian ramp reconstruction, utility coordination, replacement of the corridor’s traffic monitoring system, and the temporary traffic control plans. In construction, that work became:
- Abandoned driveways removed, damaged sidewalks and driveways reconstructed
- Pedestrian curb ramps replaced and brought into compliance
- Vehicular and pedestrian signals, signage, and crosswalks upgraded
- Countdown pedestrian signals and pushbutton poles installed
- Roadway repaved and restriped end to end
Getting the Detours Approved
The traffic control plans are where the design work met the public, because a detour is a decision about which streets absorb the traffic that gets displaced. Some routes on this project ran onto SR 826, the Palmetto Expressway, so closing a lane on a neighborhood arterial had consequences on one of the busiest expressways in the state. Other routes made more sense on municipal streets than on state roads, and those required permission from the cities that maintain them.
The detour routes ran through both Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens, so WGI brought the proposals to each city and secured approval to send detour traffic onto their roads. Every route and every traffic control plan went through review with both cities and FDOT before construction started. Nothing reached the field without a sign-off from the agency responsible for the streets it affected.
Working Around the School Calendar
Mater Academy Middle/High School and Mater Academy Elementary sit adjacent to the corridor, which put two student populations alongside the work. WGI coordinated with the schools and the contractor to shift most of the work in that stretch into the summer, so the heaviest construction happened while classes were out.
Pedestrian access shaped the sequencing through the rest of the year. Reconstructing curb ramps along a corridor where people walk to work, to school, and to nearby businesses meant taking the sidewalk apart in short segments and keeping a marked route open at every stage.
The Design Team
WGI led the design effort with three subconsultants: WSP on signing and pavement marking, CH Perez and Associates on signal design, and Fernandez-Beraud, Inc. on landscaping plans. The corridor had active utilities throughout, so utility clearances and signal design had to keep pace with the resurfacing sequence instead of trailing it, and every change either one produced flowed back into the traffic control plans.
SR 932 came out of construction resurfaced, with upgraded signals, rebuilt pedestrian ramps end to end, and a replaced traffic monitoring system feeding FDOT District 6.
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To learn more about WGI’s transportation and roadway design services, connect with our team today. We help agencies preserve corridors, plan traffic control, and keep communities moving while the work gets done.
