• Location. Norman, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Year of Completion.  2014
• Project Impact.  By widening I-35, ODOT and the City of Norman desired to provide additional capacity for traffic 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.
• 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. Love County, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Costum
• 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.The nation estimates 7,200 vehicles use the ramps 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 today. 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, as well as the custom urethane-rubber form liners for the MSE walls and custom grass patterns and urethane-rubber form liners for the wing walls.
• 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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• Location. Wichita, Kansas.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Year of Completion.  2010
• Project Impact. The project included four cast-in-place retaining walls of variable lengths, ranging from 5,700 – 14,294 square feet.
• Features & Design Context. The patterns spanning the retaining walls of the Kellogg/Woodlawn Interchange emulate Kansas’ vast agricultural landscapes, as seen from a birds-eye perspective.  The strong geometrical patterns capture the sun’s movement throughout the course of a day, providing visual interest for the commuters driving along the busy interstate.

• Techniques & Requirements.
  • A high level of details is achieved on each panel, while maintaining a specified maximum two-inch relief.
  • All of the form liners were fabricated 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 be able to align with its matching panel. The panel arrays were designed as a modular system arranged to form a unique pattern.
  • Each custom-designed form liner was hand-sculpted to the project’s exact specifications.
• Stakeholders. Kansas Department of Transportation, City of Wichita
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Cook, Flatt, & Strobel, Engineers, P.A.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Wildcat Construction Co., Inc.

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• Year of Completion.  2004
• Form Liner Type.  Custom, modular
• Location.  Wichita, Kansas.
• Project Impact. The sixteen thousand square feet of retaining walls and a vehicular bridge are transformed from bland concrete to interesting visual references to the passage of time.

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• Features & Design Context. Thirty-six cast-stone modular bas-relief panels are placed in various combinations spanning the bridge and retaining walls. The aesthetics include quotations regarding the passage of time, large Roman clocks, a twenty-five-foot-high working sundial, and enormous leaves that appear to be scattered by the wind and passing vehicles.
• 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.

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• Location.  Prince George’s County, Maryland.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Year of Completion.  2005

• Project Impact. The aesthetic treatments for this sound barrier in Prince George’s County reintroduced the natural environment that had been obscured as a result of this three-mile interstate highway expansion.
• Features & Design Context. Each precast panel features iconographic images of Maryland’s local ecosystems, including trees and birds native to the area. The panels employed in this design are modular and can be reconfigured into an infinite number of unique combinations to create miles of designs.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Initially, each clay pattern was hand-sculpted by Creative Form Liners’ team of skilled craftsmen.
  • From the patterns, the form liners were fabricated using high-quality elastomeric/urethane rubber capable of reproducing the fine detail present in the final built cast-in-place walls.
• Stakeholders. Maryland State Highway Administration
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. JMT Engineering
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Weitzman Studios, Inc.
  • Contractor. Corman Construction
• Media.
  • Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, PCI Journal. (2006, December). Sculptured Precast Concrete Soundwalls Beautify Maryland Interstate 216 Baltimore, Maryland [Press release]. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from http://www.pci.org

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• Location.  Clearwater, Florida.

• Form Liner Type.  Custom

• Year of Completion.  2016
• Project Impact. State Road 60 (SR 60) is an east–west route traversing Florida from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. A new bridge in the City of Clearwater at the intersection of US-19 & SR-60 captures the spirit of the city’s world-famous beaches, presenting commuters, visitors and residents with a delightful seascape that celebrates their local environment.
• Features & Design Context. The seashell form liners were designed to be rotated in numerous ways, to give the seashells a naturalistic appearance as if being viewed at the seashore. Fabricated with unique stylized Art Deco custom wave pattern and form liners, further adding to the sense of motion when juxtaposed with the scattered seashells shown on the ramp and abutments walls.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • We employed a clever application of a modular design creates an attractive and low-cost design solution.
  • By rotating and rearranging the MSE-wall concrete panels, the modular designs show endless possible configurations of ocean waves washing rhythmically out across the wall.
  • Working with designer Steven Weitzman, who won a national competition to design this gateway bridge, we fabricated the form liners used to precast concrete veneer or concrete form panels for the MSE walls.
• Stakeholders. City of Clearwater, Florida Department of Transportation
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Jacobs Engineering
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions
  • Contractor. Hubbard Construction, Inc.
  • Subcontractors. The Reinforced Earth Company

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• Location.  Dayton, Ohio.
• Form Liner Type.  Custom
• Year of Completion.  2002

• Project Impact. The I-70/I-75 interchange infrastructure project feature custom decorative concrete forms honoring the City of Dayton’s rich culture and contributions to aviation history. The completion of phase one of this project coincided with the one hundredth anniversary of the production of the Wright Brothers’ famous “Wright B Flyer.”
• Features & Design Context.  In phase one, custom fiberglass form liners referenced the genesis of aviation by celebrating the Wright Brothers’ achievement, celebrated in the decorative concrete form of the Wright B Flyer.  For the second phase of the project, the design is inspired by the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base..
• 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. City of Dayton, Ohio Department of Transportation
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. CH2M Hill, Inc.
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Subcontractor. Reinforced Earth Co.
• Testimonials.  “The project feedback from local residents and travelers was overwhelmingly positive and appreciative of the aesthetic enhancements … especially regarding the execution of the aesthetic theme selected by the public: “Dayton, Where Great Ideas Take Flight.”   These aesthetic enhancements create a feeling of pride and sense of place that Americans evidently seem to value and desire as part of their publicly funded transportation improvement projects.” Rick Splawinski, P.E. Senior Project Manager (Nevada Department of Transportation)

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• Location.  Prince George’s County, Maryland
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Year of Completion.  2004-2005

• Project Impact. This sound-barrier wall features natural scenery including trees, sky, local birdlife and sailboats floating on a waterway, creating a unique panorama that will be enjoyed by thousands of travelers and daily commuters.
• Features & Design Context. By formulating a cost effective design we were able to provide an aesthetically pleasing view of more than one-and-a-half miles of a breathtaking precast concrete mural without tediously repeating the same pattern.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • The individual panels’ design and detail were achieved while maintaining a specified maximum relief of two inches.
  • The project called for modular precast concrete wall forms. All of the form liners were fabricated using high-quality elastomeric/urethane rubber with the ability to withstand over fifty uses. Each form liner had to be held to close dimensional tolerances to be able to align with its matching panel.
  • The panel arrays were designed as a modular system arranged to form a scene of the local landscape and waterway. The panels in this design can be reconfigured into an infinite number of unique combinations to create miles of unique designs.
• Stakeholders. Prince George’s County Department of Public Works, Maryland State Highway Administration
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. Dewberry & Davis, LLC
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.

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• Location.  Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Form Liner Type. Custom
• Additional Services. Shop drawings
• Year of Completion.  2009

• Project Impact.  On the highway side of the MSE wall leading up to the bridge, Creative Form Liners fabricated the custom block-weave pattern and form liners that create a basket as commuters drive along US-412.
• Features & Design Context. On the golf course side of the MSE wall, custom serpentine curvilinear pattern and concrete form liners offer a visual reference to Cherokee history and culture with designs evoking traditional pottery.
• Techniques & Requirements.
  • Initially, each clay pattern was hand-sculpted by Creative Form Liners’ team of skilled craftsmen.
  • From the patterns, the form liners were fabricated using high-quality elastomeric/urethane rubber capable of reproducing the fine detail present in the final built cast-in-place walls.
• Stakeholders. Oklahoma Art in Public Places, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, The Cherokee Nation, City of Tulsa
  • Consulting Engineering Firm. The Benham Companies, LLC
  • Aesthetic Infrastructure Design Firm. Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
  • Contractor. Becco Contractors, Inc.
• 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)
  • “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).  
  • “CFL showed proficiency in dealing with government and community agencies to gain an understanding of the goals each had in mind for this particular project”. Randle White, PE. Division Engineer (Oklahoma Department of Transportation). 

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