Florida Community College At Jacksonville
Road Course And Civil Infrastructure
Jacksonville, Florida
Project Highlights:
- Complete civil infrastructure services for a new criminal justice center located at FCCJ’s north campus
- Provided the college’s training center with new construction of three types of driving tracks, used to teach students how to drive under extreme circumstances
- The first track is a reverse super-elevated chase track, which features banks that make a driver feel as though he is going twice as fast as his actual speed
- The second track is a large asphalt skid track that includes a sprinkler system which floods the track and teaches students how to drive in wet conditions
- The third track is a reaction course, including a long straight-away with street lights installed to give drivers last-minute signals, in order to test their reaction skills
- Provided design, civil engineering and construction
- Project components included complete site construction, road construction, asphalt paving, concrete curbing, landscaping, road striping, signage, retention ponds, sewage collection, water distribution and storm drainage systems