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Tying together all of these elements is the bridge girder painted a red to complement the brick. Decorative quoins provide solid stone edging for the exterior side of the parapet. The quoining design to be cast using form liners will give the illusion of real cut stone on the parapet. The quoining design also breaks up the expansive brick pattern along the MSE wall using a Fibonacci spacing, contributing to the overall Cherokee Gothic style. A custom railing was designed for the bridge the design of which mirrors the arched lintels found throughout the University and in columns and cast-stone arches. Centered on the parapet and bracketed by two cast concrete columns with brick and quoin design, will be a concrete panel, cast front and back with a bas-relief image of the Seed Sower, David Ross Boyd, the first president of the university and a symbol of the University’s dedication to education and growth. On the bridge deck, CDR designed a respite area/pedestrian facility for commuters traveling to and from the university. The design pays homage to the university’s start as an agricultural college. Furrowed row design is scored into the concrete sidewalk, representing Oklahoma’s planted fields. Two different tall grass bas relief patterns are cast into the seating walls, which references both the indigenous vegetation but also the state’s Dust Bowl years, when they learned that the native grass was essential to enriching and rooting the soil. Facing Lindsey Street framed by two small, faux brick and quoin columns will be cast text reading, “City of Norman.” The Lindsey Street Bridge is part of an eight bridge Aesthetic Master Design Plan CDR developed for the I-35 Corridor in Norman, Oklahoma. The design for each bridge finds its inspiration in either the history, architectural, flora or fauna, or the industry of this region.

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• Location: Love County, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type: Custom
• Additional Services: Decorative staining
• Year of Completion:  2014
• Project Impact: The Winstar Boulevard Bridge serves as a gateway to the Winstar Casino. The bridge provided an opportunity to bring greater access to the facilities and also serves as a frontage road for the Interstate. An estimated 7,200 vehicles use this bridge each day(4).

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• Features & Design Context: Steven Weitzman created a new bridge design that showcases both ancient Chickasaw nature symbolism and imagery from the Oklahoma landscape. Weitzman created an original concrete form liner pattern inspired by ancient Chickasaw iconography for the MSE wall that runs parallel to the bridge.
• Techniques & Requirements: Creative Form Liners fabricated the custom patterns and form liners for this project, including the abstract design for the MSE wall, the grass design for the parapet and wing walls, and the spiral symbol on the bullnoses that represents wind.
• Stakeholders: The Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma Department of Transportation
  • Consulting Engineering Firm: CP&Y, Inc.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm: Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor:  Silver Star Construction Co., Inc.
  • Subcontractors: Arrowhead Precast, Inc.
• Testimonials: “Through our relationship with Creative Form Liners Inc., we have been able to actively consider expanding the use of decorative form liners on our transportation system with relative ease.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation). 

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• Project Impact. The US-77 Bridge was one of the first of eight bridges that tell the story of the City of Norman, Oklahoma. The goals of the proposed $4.8 billion project is to improve mobility along I-35E in a safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally sensitive manner.

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• Features & Design Context. CDR experts were influenced by the state’s prairie ecosystems. Working from dimensioned drawings from CDR, Creative Form Liners’ in-house artisans handcrafted the three different prairie-grass patterns and the intricately detailed pattern of the Scissor-tailed flycatcher pattern, Oklahoma’s state bird, which appears on the pier cap and wing walls.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • The patterns were handcrafted with a maximum two-inch relief.
  • The form liners were cast using high-quality elastomeric/urethane rubber, each capable of producing up to fifty concrete patterns.
  • We made the urethane-rubber decorative custom stamps to reproduce the repeating decorative concrete pattern of prairie grasses on the bridge’s slope walls.
• Awards.
  • Pharaoh Award (2010)
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Department of Transportation, City of Norman (Oklahoma), Oklahoma Art in Public Places
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Cobb Engineering
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Manhattan Road and Bridge
• Testimonials.
  • “CFL’s had a professional and thoughtful approach to this remarkable project.  In a few years, Norman and the rest of the state are going realize the magnitude and uniqueness of this signature project”.  Shawn O’Leary, P.E., Director of Public Works (City of Norman, Oklahoma)
  • “CFL’s work depicts a community’s story. I have worked with CFL in a sensitive situation where many voices had to be heard, respected and somehow united in a work of art reflecting their collective history. CFL’s team truly a master the art of listening to people and assimilating their individual interests unto a unified picture.” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “CFL has provided OOOT with initial design concepts, helped us through the community involvement process, worked closely with our highway contractors, and provided us with a high quality product in a timely manner that adds value to the end product that can’t be achieved in any other way.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
• Media.Aspire Magazine, Project. (2013, October). Interstate 35 Corridor. Eight consecutive I-35 bridge designs showcase Oklahoma’s history [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://aspirebridge.com/

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• Location.  Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Additional Services: Decorative staining
• Year of Completion.  2008

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• Project Impact.  Although the construction of this project was at a virtual standstill, until an aesthetic design solution was approved by all the stakeholders, In the end, a successful collaboration between the Cherokee Indian Nation, Oklahoma Department of Transportation and the City of Catoosa was brought to fruition by CDR’s community outreach program, that helped to inform the final design solution created by CDR and approved by all.
• Features & Design Context.  The custom form-liner designs for this bridge affect the parapet, embankments, and piers. All the imagery incorporated into the bridge draws inspiration from Art Deco and Cherokee iconography.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • On the MSE walls leading up to the bridge, Creative Form Liners fabricated a custom block weave pattern and form liners that form a basket as commuters drive along the highway.
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Art in Public Places, Oklahoma Department of Transportation,  The Cherokee Nation, City of Tulsa, City of Catoosa
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Benham Companies
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. J.A. Manning Construction Co., Inc.
• Testimonials.
  • “CFL’s work depicts a community’s story. I have worked with CFL in a sensitive situation where many voices had to be heard, respected and somehow united in a work of art reflecting their collective history. CFL’s team truly a master the art of listening to people and assimilating their individual interests unto a unified picture.” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “I thank Creative Form Liners Inc. for being a true partner with OOOT to meet the challenge of designing, building, and maintaining a transportation system that all Oklahomans can be proud of.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
  • “CFL help find a common thread in the ideas and proposals of each stakeholder. They were very resourceful in finding solutions to problems during the process”. Randle White, PE. Division Engineer (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).

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• Requirements & Techniques.
  • The construction of the graceful river-inspired design spanning the 1:5:1 slope walls was achieved by a marriage of old-world craftsmanship and 21st century technology.
  • CFL handcrafted the pattern and form liners to the aesthetic-infrastructure designer’s exact specifications.
  • Every detail of the design was carefully modeled to articulate all shadows and reveals, while maintaining a specified maximum relief of two inches.
  • We fabricated custom form-liners using high quality elastomeric/urethane rubber with the ability to withstand over fifty uses.
  • Each form liner had to be held to a close dimensional tolerance to align with its matching panel.
  • CFL’s skilled craftsmen worked on-site with the contractor to realize this dramatic design that was formed by hand before being cast in concrete.
  • The form liners for this project underwent very strenuous quality-control guidelines to guarantee the production of the highest-quality product on the market.

Stakeholders. City of Stockton, Caltrans

• Consulting Engineers. HDR, Inc.
• Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
• Contractor. Parsons Brinckerhoff World

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• Location.  Norman, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Additional Services: Decorative staining
• Year of Completion.  2011

• Project Impact.  By widening I-35, the ODOT and the City of Norman desired to  provide additional capacity for traffic without sacrificing too much of the remaining natural environment, encourage safety along this highway corridor by introducing additional pedestrian amenities, and promote community identity through the implementation of aesthetics for a series of transportation enhancements.

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• Features & Design Context. For the parapet and piers, we used agricultural and elemental icons and patterns to reflect local industry and landscape. Art Deco-style custom waveform liners that referenced the irrigation system that feeds this essential crop.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • As part of the overall concept, CDR designed an intricate multi-colored pattern to be specially stained by Creative Form Liner on the bridge’s slope walls. Our team of artisans hand-stained the design onto the slope walls according to CDR’s dimensioned drawings and color specifications.
  • Decorative concrete forms representing three elemental icons of the Chickasaw Nation were cast using custom form liners for the bridge’s pier bullnose.
  • The slope walls used specialty staining to create a pattern reminiscent of Native American designs. The fluid design, which seems to move as motorists pass by, was inspired by Chickasaw wind iconography.
• Stakeholders.  Oklahoma Art in Public Places, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, City of Norman
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Cobb Engineering
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Silver Star Construction Co., Inc.
• Testimonials.
  • “CFL’s work epitomizes the “spirit” of public art. The most obvious evidence of its creative genius is the dynamic designs and use of color; typically CFL’s works surrounds the viewers, pulls them in, educates and edifies them.” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “We have received many positive comments from the public concerning the decoration of our new bridge structures in the Oklahoma City area, and much if not all of that credit needs to be forwarded to CFL.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
• Media.
  • Aspire Magazine, Project. (2013, October). Interstate 35 Corridor. Eight consecutive I-35 bridge designs showcase Oklahoma’s history [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://aspirebridge.com/

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• Location.  Mashantucket, Connecticut
• Form Liner Type. Forest and Geese series
• Additional Services. Shop drawings
• Year of Completion. 2008

• Project Impact. Route 2 is a state highway in Connecticut and is 58.03 miles (93.39 km) in length. It is a primary state route(15). It carries approximately 67,000 vehicles per day. The project address the bridges’ current structural deficiencies, upgrade their capacity, meet current seismic criteria, improve safety, protect the environment and reduce annual maintenance costs(16).
• Features & Design Context.  Working directly with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the imagery evokes both a cultural identification and an important ideology: “Hold on to the land.” As travelers approach the Mashantucket Bridges, they will see the beautiful concrete forms of trees, flying geese, water, and skyscapes that begin on the wing walls and continue along the bridge abutments.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • All custom form liner patterns were handcrafted to the project’s exact specifications and every detail carefully molded to articulate all shadows and reveals.
  • The form liners for this project, and form liners for every project, undergo very strenuous quality control guidelines to guarantee the production of the highest-quality product on the market.
  • The decorative concrete wall forms were cast using our Forest and Geese series. We offer modular, decorative designs of flora and fauna, land-, water-, and sky-scapes that can be configured into endless combinations, creating stunning and unique landscapes for any infrastructure project.
• Stakeholders. Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation/Foxwoods Resorts Casino
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Purcell Associates, now Benesch
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Cardi Corporation

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• Location.  Town of Los Gatos, California.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Year of Completion.  2010

• Project Impact. Roberts Road Bridge was condemned by  Caltrans because it was considered seismically unsafe. Residents demanded a new bridge be built(9). The project involved close coordination with the Town and the local community to achieve project acceptance(10).

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• Features & Design Context.  The bridge offers imagery that celebrates the local ecosystem, illustrating a creek scene featuring local flora and fauna of the Los Gatos Creek.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Partnering with our sister company, aesthetic infrastructure design firm Creative Design Resolutions (CDR), to create the design for the pattern, we fabricated the custom architectural concrete form liners to perfectly mirror CDR’s aesthetic designs for the bridge wall elements.
  • Creative Form Liners helped the design firm achieve a modular custom form liner design, allowing the contractor to reconfigure the form liners on-site to cast two unique designs using some of the same form liners on all the abutment-wall forms.
  • Using a modular approach, Creative Form Liners and CDR helped the Town of Los Gatos cut costs by reducing the overall number of form liners required to cast the concrete design forms.
• Stakeholders. City of Los Gatos, Caltrans
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Biggs-Cardosa Associates, Inc.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Jones Bros. Construction Co.
• Testimonials.
  • “This is a bridge for the neighborhood. Work of art and a work of the heart.” Joe Pirzynski, Los Gatos Mayor
  • “We took a lot of effort to give it a country look” Kevin Rohani , Town Engineer, and Project Manager
  • “I think it’s a bridge we can all be proud of.  It’s exciting that this bridge exists again today. I know it’s safe and I know it’s beautiful. ” Anne Lamborn, Monroe Court resident

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• Location.  Prince George’s County, Maryland.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Year of Completion.  2004
• Project Impact. This bridge, at the entrance to what was once the original horse-racing track in Laurel, Maryland, offers motorists a visual representation of the location’s equestrian history.

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• Features & Design Context. Two precast concrete running horses are incorporated into the wing walls of the bridge structure.  The wing-wall design is accentuated by the Prince George’s County seal. Our form liners create dynamic hoof prints that run along the interior of the parapet walls.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Worked with artist Steven Weitzman (Weitzman Studios, Inc.), to create two full-sized clay models of the running horses, one fiberglass form liner of each model, and a third urethane rubber form liner of the hoof print pattern for the parapet.
• Stakeholders. Prince George’s County, Prince George’s County Department of Public Works
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Jacobs Civil Inc.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Weitzman Studios, Inc.
  • Contractor. Pioneering Contracting Co., Inc.

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• Project Impact. Accommodating more than 65,000 vehicles per day, the project itself not only improved access and traffic flow immensely, it also beautified the area around the interchange. This momentous accomplishment was even greater because, at the time when construction was going on, material prices in the construction industry had skyrocketed and were fluctuating greatly(7).

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• Features & Design Context. Decorative additions to these three bridges along US-77 near Edmond, Oklahoma treat pedestrians and motorists to a stunning city gateway that showcases the Art Deco and Native American influences.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • The two bridges over Memorial Road use a muted brown stain to affect the parapet and a beige stain on the beams.
  • The form liner patterns for concrete parapets and pier caps are further accentuated with beige weaves and square red ornaments. Kelley Bridge transposes that color scheme and accentuates the parapets and pier caps with brown weaves and turquoise ornaments.
  • Dynamic shields atop the pier hammerheads depict the emblem from the Oklahoma state flag set against a colorful background of local ledge stone. This indigenous-stone pattern also fills each wing wall.
  • Pedestrians using the sidewalk can stop under the bridges to see geometric ribbons stained in a terracotta color weave along each slope wall.
  • At Memorial Road, the slope walls fan out from under the bridge, making a dramatic entranceway to the gateway bridges of the City of Edmond.
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Art in Public Places, Oklahoma Department of Transportation
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Benham Engineering Company
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Manhattan Road & Bridge
• Testimonials.
  • “The Broadway Extension Interchange at Memorial Road is not merely a road project to improve traffic, but an innovative approach to improve the first impression of the City of Edmond. We look forward to seeing continued positive impacts on this community for years to come.” Patrice Douglas, Mayor of Edmond(8).
  • “CFL’s creativity flows from the information gathered into something tangible. Their craft is defined by “problem-solving”, making many components and considerations fit into the given parameters (time, space and budget). To be able to work within those boundaries, and do it well, is a true talent” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “Through our relationship with Creative Form Liners Inc., we have been able to actively consider expanding the use of decorative form liners on our transportation system with relative ease.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
  • “CFL has met and exceeded my every expectation.” Casey Shell, P. E. Chief Engineer (Oklahoma Department of Transportation)

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• Location. Norman, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Year of Completion.  2014
• Project Impact.  By widening the I-35 Corridor, Oklahoma DOT and the City of Norman desired to improve traffic capacity while integrating the bridges into the surrounding natural environment, encourage safety along this highway corridor by introducing additional pedestrian amenities, and promote community identity through the implementation of aesthetics for a series of transportation enhancements.

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• Features & Design Context. A dramatic fifteen-foot representational bas-relief in the shape of a medallion depicts the Land Run of 1889, a scene featuring multiple figures on horses in full gallop followed by people in covered wagons.  As the gateway bridge into the city, planter beds feature text welcoming visitors to the city on one side, and proclaiming on the other side “’We Belong to the Land’ – Oklahoma!”
• Requirements & Techniques.

• • We crafted the form-liners so that the dynamic action depicted in CDR’s design was accurately represented and that the intricate details would be visible to travelers on the interstate driving at speeds of 65 mph.
  • Creative Form Liners incorporates many processes to create the custom decorative patterns that are used to cast our elastomeric/urethane-rubber form liners. This sculptural relief relied on our expert traditional sculpting techniques, which sets us apart in the field.
  • The custom decorative pattern for this bas-relief was first hand sculpted at a maximum 1 ½” relief by our team of artisans, ensuring that all aspects of the relief would register exactly.
  • Once the custom MSE-wall form liners were fabricated from the patterns, the MSE-concrete panels were used by the precast concrete form-liner company, Reinforced Earth Company.
  • Creative Form Liners fabricated the MSE-wall form liners for the diagonal six-inch fluted-rib textured pattern that spans the MSE walls and frames the Land Run Medallions. These decorative concrete wall forms represent the flexibility that using modular form liners offers by allowing designer(s) the opportunity to configure concrete patterns to create dynamic and site-specific designs.

• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Department of Transportation, City of Norman (Oklahoma), Oklahoma Historical Society
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Manhattan Road and Bridges
  • Subcontractor. Reinforced Earth Company
• Publications. Aspire Magazine, Fall 2013
• Testimonials.  “You have provided ODOT with initial design concepts, helped us through the community involvement process, worked closely with our highway contractors, and provided us with a high-quality product in a timely manner that adds value to the end product that can’t be achieved in any other way.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
• Media.
  • The Norman Transcript. (2013, September 22). Main Street interchange topic at luncheon [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://www.normantranscript.com/
  • Aspire Magazine, Project. (2013, October). Interstate 35 Corridor. Eight consecutive I-35 bridge designs showcase Oklahoma’s history [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://aspirebridge.com/

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• Location. Tucson, Arizona
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Year of Completion.  2014
• Project Impact. This $28.3 million dollar Regional Transportation Authority project called for widening the road, creating bike paths, improving drainage and intersection improvement(3). The new bridge spans the Canada del Oro Wash, providing surrounding communities with easy ingress and egress even in flood season.

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• Features & Design Context. This five-time award-winning bridge includes decorative concrete wall forms and metal railing that transform the traditional straight edge of a parapet wall into an undulating shape that calls to mind the waters of the wash  that flow below this six-hundred-foot-long bridge.

• Techniques & Requirements.
  • In addition to hand sculpting the intricate custom chollas  patterns, and from them fabricating the form liners used to cast this bridge’s unique parapet design, CFL also made the templates used to sandblast the desert silver fox and wild grass designs into the sidewalk and vista areas.
  • Creative Form Liners worked with its sister company—aesthetic infrastructure design firm Creative Design Resolutions, Inc. (CDR)—to realize the aesthetics for this eye-catching bridge project.
  • CDR is known throughout the transportation industry as the premiere aesthetic-design firm that provides context sensitive, aesthetic design consulting services for transportation enhancements for all types of infrastructure projects.

• Awards.

• • Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Public Works Association’s Project of the Year for Transportation under $20 million (2015)
  • International Partnering Institute’s John L. Martin Partnered Project of the Year Ruby Award (2015)
  • Arizona Department of Transportation’s 2014 Arizona Transportation Partnering Excellence Award (2014)
  • Arizona Association of General Contractor’s Build Arizona Award, in the Public New Highway Construction, projects over $10 million (2014)
  • Pima Association of Governments and the Regional Transportation Authority’s 2015 Timothy M. Ahrens Partnering Award (2015) 
• Stakeholders. City of Tucson, Arizona, Pima County Department of Transportation, Tucson Pima Arts Council
• Consulting Engineering Firm. URS,  Inc.
• Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
• Contractor. Markham Contracting, Inc.
• Testimonials.
  • “During the early planning and design phases of the project, CFL was careful to take into consideration the environmental and cultural aspects of the project setting. CFL showed ability to listen, understand, integrate and direct through the maze of public input.” Dean Papajohn P.E, Project Manager.
  • “The design for all the walls and the bridge is outstanding. I love the rail elements and the choice of colors. I do believe everyone on that team learned a lot about the value of art and the fact that artists can be extremely professional. Your walls are unique to any around the county and the community is so proud.“ Sally Krommes, Public Art Coordinator.

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• Location.  Wichita, Kansas.
• Form Liner Type. Custom, modular form liners
• Additional Services. Shop drawings and maquettes of each form liner design
• Year of Completion.  2004

• Project Impact. An urban highway able to enhance the quality of life and character of a community without sacrificing safety and mobility.  According to the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce, our workforce enjoys an average commute time of 18.7 minutes, which is one of the best in the nation(11).

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• Features & Design Context. “Time Passages” was selected as the aesthetic theme for the Kellogg/Oliver Interchange in Wichita, Kansas. The designs include quotations regarding the passage of time, monumental Roman clocks, a 25′ vertical working sundial, and enormous leaves that appear to be scattered by the wind and passing vehicles, serving as a pleasant reminder to the commuters driving under the bridge that “The Journey is the Reward”.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • These custom-designed decorative concrete forms are created using normal construction methods.
  • The form liners for this project and every project undergo very strenuous quality-control guidelines to guaranty the production of the highest-quality product on the market.
• Stakeholders. Kansas Department of Transportation, City of Wichita, Wichita Art Council
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Cook, Flatt, & Strobel, Engineers, P.A.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Wildcat Construction Co., Inc.
• Testimonials.
  • “The project includes the famous sundial bas-relief, a timeless representation of the city, its people and significance in the history of Kansas. This piece is one of the nation’s best and most frequently cited examples of the incorporation of public art into a highway corridor. The art has a scale and character appropriate to a freeway condition. The art also provides a great example of “low cost-high impact” design that utilizes the economy of form liners while providing a quality art piece.” Douglas Mann, ASLA, HTNB Corp(12).

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• Location.  Norman, Oklahoma.

• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Additional Services. Decorative staining
• Year of Completion. 2011

• Project Impact. Rock Creek Road bridge at I-35 links west side with east in the City of Norman, providing motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists a convenient and safe way to cross the highway. It alleviates traffic congestion at the I-35 interchanges. Rock Creek Road bridge is the most pedestrian-friendly structure in the city.

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• Features & Design Context.  The aesthetics for the Rock Creek Road Bridge were designed to illustrate the City of Norman’s active equestrian industry and the western trade of saddle making, an art form that has a fabled history in the city. Native American blanket designs are imprinted into the concrete surfaces of the slope walls and stained in various colors.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Custom form liners were also used to create the weave pattern seen on the pier columns.
  • The elegant stamped concrete slope walls were achieved using Creative Form Liners’ custom urethane-rubber stamps.
  • Once stamped by the contractor and cured, the blanket designs were then stained by Creative Form Liners’ decorative staining experts to imitate the colors of a woven blanket and handcrafted leather.
  • All of the decorative concrete form liners that CFL made for this project are cast using reusable urethane, which enables the local Department of Transportation and the City to reuse them on different projects as they see fit.
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Department of Transportation, City of Norman (Oklahoma), Oklahoma Art in Public Places
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Cobb Engineering
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Manhattan Road and Bridge
• Testimonials.
  • “CFL’s creativity flows from the information gathered into something tangible. Their craft is defined by “problem solving”, making many components and considerations fit into the given parameters (time, space and budget). To be able to work within those boundaries, and do it well, is a true talent” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “We have received many positive comments from the public concerning the decoration of our new bridge structures in the Oklahoma City area, and much if not all of that credit needs to be forwarded to CFL.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
• Media. Aspire Magazine, Project. (2013, October). Interstate 35 Corridor. Eight consecutive I-35 bridge designs showcase Oklahoma’s history [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://aspirebridge.com/

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• Location.  Norman, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Additional Services: Decorative staining
• Year of Completion.  2016

• Project Impact. The roadway has become a landmark of style and design nationwide. The city of Norman desired to  provide additional capacity for traffic without sacrificing too much of the remaining natural environment,  encourage safety along this highway corridor by introducing additional pedestrian amenities, and promote community identity through the implementation of aesthetics for a series of transportation enhancements.

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• Features & Design Context. The concrete form liners created to realize this elegant Art Deco design scheme have a pattern that evokes the water elements around the Thunderbird Lake area.  The crisscross concrete pattern in the pier columns represents an abstract Thunderbird in flight, transforming an ashlar stone pattern into a monumental context-sensitive solution.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • A combination of ashlar stone patterns and custom concrete form liners were used for this combination of decorative concrete forms, which are quickly becoming a necessary part of all highway and bridge projects in America.
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Art in Public Places, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, City of Norman
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Poe & Associates, Inc., Leidos
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Sherwood Construction
• Testimonials.
  • “CFL’s work depicts a community’s story. I have worked with CFL in a sensitive situation where many voices had to be heard, respected and somehow united in a work of art reflecting their collective history. CFL’s team truly a master the art of listening to people and assimilating their individual interests unto a unified picture.” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)
  • “I thank Creative Form Liners Inc. for being a true partner with OOOT to meet the challenge of designing, building, and maintaining a transportation system that all Oklahomans can be proud of.” Gary Ridley, Secretary of Transportation (Oklahoma Department of Transportation).  
• Media.
  • Aspire Magazine, Project. (2013, October). Interstate 35 Corridor. Eight consecutive I-35 bridge designs showcase Oklahoma’s history [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://aspirebridge.com/

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• Location.  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Additional Services. Decorative staining
• Year of Completion.  2008

• Project Impact. Heritage Bridge is located on the Turner Turnpike, a toll road in central Oklahoma that connects the state’s two largest cities, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Improving safety and convenience on this road was a priority for the OTA(6). The bridge spans the Turner Turnpike allowing S.H. 102 traffic to cross over top.

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• Features & Design Context. This used our state-of-the-art form liners to emblazon the bridge with the emblem from the Oklahoma state flag. The design elements are strong and colorful, not reliant on intricate details that would be lost to most drivers. The pier provides support and a continuation of the weave design, a shield featuring the Native American iconography. Slope walls under the bridge complement the main elements with a red stamped concrete design reminiscent of Native American weave patterns.
• Techniques & Requirements. Our durable urethane-rubber liners were used to cast the repeating woven band and jewel pattern along the parapets and piers. Our detailed high-relief fiberglass form liners were used to cast the central shield and wing walls depicting local ledge stone and the flag emblem. Our craftsmen also did the expert specialty staining in earthen browns, reds, blues, and beiges that further enhance the local-stone effect. Even with only a two-inch relief, this crisp pattern is visible from a great distance.
• Awards.
  • 18th Annual Pharaoh Award
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Oklahoma Art in Public Places
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Carter & Burgess, Inc.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Plains Bridge Contracting, Inc.
• Testimonials. “CFL’s work epitomizes the “spirit” of public art. The most obvious evidence of its creative genius is the dynamic designs and use of color; typically CFL’s works surrounds the viewers, pulls them in, educates and edifies them.” Debby Williams, Director (Oklahoma Art in Public Places)

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• Project Impact. This striking vehicular and pedestrian bridge that marks the entranceway between Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County celebrates Maryland’s state tree, the White Oak.

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• Features & Design Context.  The bridge includes two 150-foot cast-in-place parapet walls and two six-foot cast-in-place concrete columns. These columns, featuring the leaf of the White Oak in two-inch raised relief, are capped with White Oak acorns of heroic size.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Fabricated a urethane rubber form liner reinforced in a fiberglass shell for the column.  Made in 2-3 pieces, the fiberglass shell was constructed in a way to enable the contractor to form against it and cast the columns in place with little difficulty. Also made the acorn cap form liner that the contractor used to precast the two caps prior to mounting them on each column.
  • The interior faces of the parapet walls were created using urethane rubber simulated-stone form liners.
  • Urethane rubber form liners were made to re-create the designer’s continuous leaf pattern on the inside of the entryway and parapet walls.
• Stakeholders. Prince George’s County, Prince George’s County Department of Public Works
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Weitzman Studios, Inc.
  • Contractor: Flippo Construction, Inc.

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