While the concrete can’t set fast enough for the thousands of commuters detoured around the Valley Forge Road bridge near Phoenixville for the past several months, the contractor is still pouring time into the job — and expecting it to be done ahead of schedule.

“We got the bridge deck poured,” Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Spokesman Gene Blaum said in a CBS Philly report on Monday. “That was a major milestone for this project; now it’s just a matter of getting all the other structural elements on the bridge.”

PennDOT has not committed to a re-opening earlier than the end of November, but Blaum said he expects to beat that deadline.

Challenged by a dangerous old structure and tight workspace next to the adjacent dam on Pickering Creek, contractor J.D. Eckman has poured extra resources into the project and accelerated its completion date from April 2016 to Nov. 26, and it will get $3,000 every day it’s done ahead of time. As it is now, Eckman’s crews have been working five 10-hour days each week.

All that’s left is bridge walls, parapets and finishing touches.

Read more of the progress report on CBS Philly here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of the political pressure being put on the project here.