North I-25 Express Lanes — Segment 5 (Mead–Berthoud) · Pacing
Is the money keeping pace with the calendar?
CDOT posts a dashboard for each of the 3 North I-25 Express Lanes — Segment 5 (Mead–Berthoud) construction packages. Each card puts two of its figures side by side: the share of contract time used and the share of the contract value paid.
Source: CDOT, North I-25 Segment 5 (Mead to Berthoud) project dashboards (opens in a new tab) · 1 monthly document · September 2026
One month in: history starts now
CDOT's dashboard for September 2026 is the first one we have for this project, so there is no line to draw yet. Each month that follows adds a point. CDOT dashboard, September 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Construction package 1
Paid 100.0% of the contract. More days have passed than the contract allows (387 of 237), so no gap is shown.
$30.49M paid of $30.49M FACT · 387 of 237 days. A gap against time used over 100% would mean nothing, so it waits until CDOT restates the contract time.
Construction package 2
Paid 91.6% of the contract with 70.0% of its time used: 21.6 percentage points ahead of an even pace, $20.99M more.
$88.90M paid of $97.04M FACT · 669 of 956 days
Construction package 3
Paid 45.3% of the contract with 40.2% of its time used: 5.1 percentage points ahead of an even pace, $4.40M more.
$39.40M paid of $86.99M FACT · 336 of 835 days
CDOT printed the same construction percent complete, 73%, on every package, so it reads as a project-wide figure. It is not compared with the calendar here.
How these numbers are made
Labels
- FACT printed on CDOT's monthly dashboard for that contract and month. The link above the cards opens that document.
- CALC our arithmetic on those figures, with the formula stated here.
Formulas
- Time used % = days elapsed ÷ days total, both as CDOT prints them.
- Paid % = payments to date ÷ current contract value.
- Gap, in percentage points = paid % − time used %. It is a difference of two percentages, so it is in percentage points, not percent. Above zero, the contract is paid ahead of the calendar (▲). Below zero, it is paid behind the calendar (▼).
- Gap, in dollars = payments to date − time used % × contract value. It is how far payments sit from what an even pace would have paid by then.
- An even pace is our baseline, not CDOT's plan. It assumes the money is paid at the same rate as the contract's days pass. CDOT does not publish an expected spending curve for these contracts. Construction spending rarely keeps a steady rate: mobilization and early materials run ahead, winter slows work, closeout runs behind, and retainage holds back part of each payment. So a gap either way is a question to ask, not a verdict. It compares money with time, never with the work done.
What this does not show
- These are payments on each contract, not the whole cost of the project. Design outside these contracts, right of way and CDOT's own costs are in none of them.
- Every figure on this page is read from 1 of CDOT's monthly dashboards, September 2026. None is typed by hand.