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<strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Record</strong><br />
April 27, 2009 enr.com<br />
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April 27, 2009 Contents<br />
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COVER STORY<br />
Mumbai Miracle<br />
18 After years of delays, the new<br />
Bandra-Worli Sea Link will cut a trip<br />
across Mahim Bay in Mumbai, India,<br />
from about 40 minutues to six. The<br />
4.7-km viaduct with two cable-stayed<br />
spans is slated to open to traffi c in<br />
mid-May.<br />
Cover photo courtesy of Swaminathan/Wikipedia;<br />
photo right by Janice L. Tuchman for ENR<br />
14 Military <strong>Construction</strong>: Guam needs<br />
more U.S. funds to redeploy military, says<br />
GAO<br />
Buildings<br />
14 Claims: Thornton-Tomasetti is cleared in<br />
Indiana library defect suit<br />
15 Materials: Problems continue to grow<br />
with drywall made in China<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
5 Videos<br />
6 <strong>Construction</strong> Week<br />
9 Washington Observer<br />
16 <strong>Construction</strong> Economics<br />
24 Products<br />
26 Pulse<br />
28 Viewpoint<br />
New emphasis on high-speed rail. Page 10.<br />
PHOTO LEFT COURTESY OF THE CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL; RIGHT COURTESY OF THE FLORIDA DEPT. OF HEALTH<br />
NEWS<br />
Transportation<br />
10 High-Speed Rail: DOT sketches out<br />
high-speed-rail plan<br />
Business & Economics<br />
12 Economic Stimulus: BuRec, EPA map<br />
out $1.6 billion of new funding<br />
13 Corruption: Illinois boosts project funding<br />
but not without major reform<br />
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Videos<br />
View From Technology’s Frontier<br />
Golden-i, a verbally controlled Bluetooth computer interface, wowed the crowd at the FIATECH<br />
meeting. See how the device works on ENR.com this week.<br />
How does FIATECH pursue its mission to find technology solutions to problems in construction<br />
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In one video, viewers can see the debut<br />
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<strong>Construction</strong> Week<br />
Environmental<br />
Six States in Oil-and-Gas Zones<br />
Get $500 Million for Coast Fixes<br />
Six coastal states will receive nearly $500<br />
million from the U.S. Interior Dept. to<br />
help them alleviate environmental impacts<br />
of oil-and-gas development, the agency<br />
said on April 20. Louisiana tops the list<br />
with $121 million, followed by Alaska at<br />
$37.5 million, Texas at $35.6 million, Mississippi<br />
at $23.8 million, Alabama at $19.7<br />
million and California at $5 million. The<br />
agency will distribute the funds in fiscal<br />
2009 and 2010, the final two years of the<br />
Coastal Impact Assistance Program,<br />
which Congress created in 2005 for states<br />
adjacent to oil-and-gas production on the<br />
Outer Continental Shelf. Lawmakers authorized<br />
the agency to distribute $250<br />
million annually from fiscal 2007 through<br />
fiscal 2010, using production proceeds.<br />
“The funding we provide through this<br />
program goes a long way to restore portions<br />
of our coastline, and I look forward<br />
to working with each of the states on their<br />
upcoming projects,” said Interior Secretary<br />
Ken Salazar. <br />
Corruption<br />
Probe of New York Utility Yields<br />
Two More <strong>Construction</strong> Arrests<br />
The U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y., announced<br />
two new arrests related to an<br />
ongoing probe of corruption on construction<br />
projects of giant New York utility<br />
Consolidated Edison. The sting had led<br />
to charges filed in January against 10 cur-<br />
rent and former Con Ed construction officials<br />
for receiving $1 million in kickbacks<br />
from contractors. Benton J. Campbell<br />
said Russell Ball, CEO of Roadway <strong>Construction</strong><br />
Inc., Brooklyn, was charged on<br />
April 16 with paying “tens of thousands<br />
of dollars in bribes” to Con Ed officials on<br />
water-main and utility-line construction<br />
projects between 2002 and 2004. He made<br />
the payments in exchange for the cooperation<br />
of an unnamed Con Ed supervisor<br />
in approving inflated invoices. The supervisor<br />
also shared proceeds with other utility<br />
managers. Charged on April 15 was<br />
Joseph Lioi, a retired chief construction<br />
inspector for Con Ed. Authorities allege<br />
he solicited and accepted $24,000 in kickbacks<br />
from an unnamed contractor on<br />
utility projects in 2007. The defendants<br />
could not be reached. <br />
Lawsuits<br />
Partial Settlement Announced<br />
For 2006 Fatal Crane Collapse<br />
General contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis<br />
and structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic<br />
Associates have settled a lawsuit<br />
with the family of the man who died in his<br />
apartment when the boom of a 210-ft<br />
tower crane toppled while working on<br />
Tower 333 in Bellevue, Wash. Details of<br />
the settlement were not disclosed. An<br />
LCL action against MKA, part of the suit,<br />
remains unresolved. According to MKA<br />
Chairman and CEO Jon D. Magnusson,<br />
MKA designed the crane base assuming a<br />
tie-in to the building frame in the initial<br />
configuration, but the crane was erected<br />
without a tie-in. The reason for this is the<br />
subject of the dispute, he says. A citation<br />
following the 2006 crane collapse issued<br />
against MKA by the state Dept. of Labor<br />
and Industries recently was vacated by the<br />
state Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals.<br />
The state labor agency also cited<br />
LCL and fined it $5,600, for “failure to<br />
obtain measurements to ensure cranebase<br />
deflection limits were not exceeded,”<br />
says Bill Lewis, LCL chairman. <br />
Parks<br />
Landscape Architects Seek<br />
‘Makeover’ of National Mall<br />
Calling the state of the National Mall in<br />
Washington, D.C., an “international embarrassment,”<br />
a panel of leading design<br />
experts has recommended that the National<br />
Park Service amend an improvement<br />
plan unveiled earlier this year to<br />
make it broader and more environmentally<br />
sustainable. The plan calls for a ban<br />
on new monuments and statues and a redesign<br />
of the Union Square/Capitol Reflecting<br />
Pool area. Angela Dye, president<br />
of the American Society of Landscape<br />
Architects, who facilitated the panel, says<br />
the Park Service’s current plan would improve<br />
the mall but does not go far enough.<br />
The panel recommends the Park Service<br />
hold a design competition and work with<br />
the National Capital Planning Commission<br />
and the Architect of the Capitol to<br />
develop a more integrated, expansive and<br />
sustainable plan. <br />
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EPA Takes Step Toward Regulating Carbon<br />
While environmental groups<br />
are cheering the Environmental<br />
Protection Agency’s<br />
April 17 announcement<br />
that it has determined that<br />
greenhouse gases could pose<br />
a threat to public health and<br />
welfare, critics charge that using<br />
the Clean Air Act to regulate<br />
greenhouse-gas emissions could<br />
prove costly.<br />
“Trying to regulate [greenhouse emissions]<br />
under the Clean Air Act is going to<br />
add costs and delays to transportation<br />
projects,” says Nick Goldstein, American<br />
Road and Transportation Builders Association<br />
assistant general counsel and director<br />
of regulatory affairs.<br />
EPA’s “endangerment” finding, which<br />
is subject to a 60-day comment period<br />
before it becomes final, is not a formal<br />
rule. But it could trigger regulation of<br />
greenhouse gases for the first time under<br />
the Clean Air Act if Congress does not<br />
pass legislation to address global warming.<br />
EPA’s endangerment finding, a reversal<br />
of Bush administration policy, came in<br />
response to the 2007 Supreme Court rul-<br />
WAXMAN<br />
ing in Massachusetts v. EPA. The court<br />
concluded that carbon could be considered<br />
a “pollutant” under the Clean Air<br />
Act and ordered EPA to determine<br />
whether carbon emissions<br />
constitute an “endangerment” to<br />
public health. Former EPA Administrator<br />
Stephen Johnson said<br />
during the final weeks of the<br />
Bush term that using the act to<br />
regulate greenhouse gases could<br />
have a chilling effect on the economy but<br />
left the determination of whether greenhouse<br />
gases pose a potential health threat<br />
to the next administration.<br />
Environmental groups say the EPA<br />
announcement lays the groundwork for<br />
addressing the effects of climate change,<br />
through the regulatory or legislative process.<br />
Joe Mendelson, National Wildlife<br />
Federation global-warming policy director,<br />
calls EPA’s finding “a game-changer<br />
for climate policy that has repercussions<br />
domestically and abroad.”<br />
Washington Observer<br />
“ One way or another, powerplants are going<br />
to be regulated.”<br />
— DAN REIDINGER, EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE<br />
The Obama administration repeatedly<br />
has said it would prefer that Congress<br />
take action rather than have its agencies<br />
issue regulations. In the House, Energy<br />
and Commerce Committee Chairman<br />
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Ed<br />
Markey (D-Mass.) have released a draft<br />
bill. They hope the committee will vote<br />
on it by the Memorial Day recess.<br />
Industry groups say they also prefer<br />
legislation. “That is our strong preference,”<br />
says Dan Riedinger, spokesman for<br />
the Edison Electric Institute. But the genie<br />
is out of the bottle. “One way or another,<br />
powerplants are going to be regulated,<br />
whether by agency or<br />
Congress,” he says.<br />
ARTBA’s Goldstein says<br />
using the Clean Air Act to<br />
regulate greenhouse gases<br />
could push more counties out of attainment,<br />
which could stall funds for transportation<br />
projects. But David Doniger,<br />
climate center policy director for the<br />
Natural Resources Defense Council,<br />
notes, “The Clean Air Act is intended to<br />
adapt to new pollution problems as they<br />
are discovered and recognized.” <br />
By Pam Hunter<br />
<br />
Stimulus: More<br />
Than $3.3 Billion<br />
for Smart Grid<br />
Administration offi cials on April 16<br />
outlined plans to distribute more<br />
than $3.3 billion in smart-grid- technology<br />
development grants and an<br />
additional $615 million for smartgrid<br />
storage through the American<br />
Recovery and Reinvestment<br />
Act. The grants will range from<br />
$500,000 to $20 million for smartgrid<br />
applications and $100,000<br />
to $5 million for grid monitoring<br />
devices.<br />
“We need an upgraded electrical<br />
grid to take full advantage of<br />
the vast renewable resources in<br />
this country,” said Vice President<br />
Joe Biden. Commerce Secretary<br />
Gary Locke said administration offi<br />
cials will hold a meeting in Washington,<br />
D.C., in May to discuss<br />
the development of industrywide<br />
standards to help make the smart<br />
grid a reality.<br />
NERC: Transmission<br />
Grid Must be<br />
Updated<br />
A new study from the North American<br />
Electric Reliability Corp., the<br />
U.S. electric-utility watchdog<br />
group, finds that the nation’s increasing<br />
reliance on renewableenergy<br />
power sources will require<br />
policymakers to clear the way for<br />
updating the nation’s transmissions<br />
system. NERC says adding<br />
high levels of wind, solar and<br />
ocean energy, deemed “variable<br />
generation” for their intermittent<br />
characteristics, will require “signifi<br />
cant transmission additions and<br />
reinforcements” to ensure grid reliability.<br />
NERC projects that more<br />
than 145,000 MW of new variable<br />
resources will be added to the<br />
country’s bulk power system within<br />
10 years. Denise Bode, CEO of<br />
American Wind Energy Association<br />
,praises NERC’s report, saying,<br />
“These reforms are needed to<br />
maintain system reliability.”<br />
E-Verify: Deadline<br />
Pushed Back<br />
A Third Time<br />
The Obama administration has extended<br />
the deadline until June 30<br />
for implementation of mandatory<br />
E-Verify use by federal contractors<br />
to determine employment eligibility<br />
of their new hires. The policy<br />
was set to go into effect on Jan. 15.<br />
“The extension provides the administration<br />
an adequate opportunity<br />
to review the entire rule prior<br />
to its applicability to federal contractors<br />
and subcontractors,” says<br />
the Dept. of Homeland Security. <br />
—Compiled by Pam Hunter and<br />
Cathy Cash<br />
enr.com April 27, 2009 ENR 9
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<strong>News</strong> April 27, 2009<br />
HIGH-SPEED RAIL<br />
DOT Sketches Plan<br />
For High-Speed Rail<br />
First round of grant awards for ready-to-go projects is expected to be made by late summer<br />
Drawing on $8 billion from the federal economic<br />
stimulus, the Obama administration has laid out a<br />
blueprint for developing high-speed rail in 100- to<br />
600-mile-long corridors around the country. The<br />
plan, which the U.S. Dept. of Transportation unveiled<br />
April 16, does not say which projects will be<br />
funded. DOT will start awarding the first<br />
round of grants for ready-to-go upgrades<br />
to existing routes by late summer. A second<br />
phase would have a longer-range<br />
focus. However, carrying out the plan’s<br />
lofty aims will require much more than $8<br />
billion. It is uncertain where that new<br />
money will come from.<br />
Still, it is clear is high-speed rail has<br />
barreled to a top place on the federal<br />
transportation priority list. Underlining<br />
the plan’s importance, President Barack<br />
Obama appeared at DOT headquarters<br />
to endorse a program “to transform travel<br />
in America with an historic investment in<br />
high-speed rail.”<br />
The plan encompasses new service at<br />
speeds exceeding 150 miles per hour,<br />
“emerging and regional” service between<br />
90 mph and 150 mph on dedicated or<br />
shared track and upgrades to existing service<br />
running from 79 mph to 90 mph.<br />
The 27-page DOT plan will be followed<br />
by detailed program guidance, due<br />
by June 17, and then by a National Rail<br />
Plan mandated by a separate passengerrail<br />
measure enacted last year.<br />
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Obama said an initial round of grants<br />
“will focus on projects that can create jobs<br />
and benefits in the near-term.” He added,<br />
“We are talking about using existing infrastructure<br />
to increase speeds on some<br />
routes from 70 mph to over 100 mph [by]<br />
improving tracks, crossings, signal systems.”<br />
For now, DOT is not saying how<br />
much of the $8 billion will be awarded in<br />
The administration’s plan “is to transform<br />
travel in America with an historic<br />
investment in high-speed rail.”<br />
— PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA<br />
grants for those shorter-term shovelready<br />
rail-upgrade projects.<br />
Shrinking Distances<br />
According to the President, the next phase<br />
will focus on “shrinking distances within<br />
our regions.” He said there are “at least<br />
10 major corridors...of 100 to 600 miles<br />
in length with the potential for successful<br />
high-speed rail systems.”<br />
Jeff Morales, senior vice president with<br />
Parsons Brinckerhoff in Sacramento, Calif.,<br />
says the DOT plan indicates “they<br />
really are looking at this not just as a onetime<br />
shot of the $8 billion [for] economic<br />
recovery but as a sustained program. To<br />
me, that is something pretty significant<br />
that states and local governments should<br />
certainly take note of.”<br />
The $8 billion, which is only available<br />
through Sept. 30, 2012, under the American<br />
Recovery and Reinvestment Act,<br />
does not require a state to put up matching<br />
money. That is a great attraction.<br />
Much of the competition for highspeed-rail<br />
dollars will center on 11 corridors<br />
that U.S. DOT secretaries have<br />
designated since 1991 (see map). Officials<br />
from states along those corridors<br />
already are making a pitch<br />
to be selected. California,<br />
which envisions an 800-mile,<br />
$46-billion set of lines, hopes<br />
to win 40% to 50% of the $8<br />
billion. In the near-term, the<br />
state’s High Speed Rail Authority has<br />
identified $3.6 billion of grade separations<br />
and support infrastructure that already are<br />
designed and ready to start construction<br />
by March 2010, says Executive Director<br />
Mehdi Morshed.<br />
With a $9.95-billion high-speed-rail<br />
bond issue that voters approved last November,<br />
“We have already awarded millions<br />
of dollars in contracts and will continue<br />
with or without federal funds,”
mulus Money<br />
High-Speed-Rail Corridors Competing<br />
For $8 Billion of Federal Stimulus Money<br />
KEY<br />
MAP COURTESY OF U.S. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION<br />
Pacific Northwest<br />
California<br />
Designated High-speed Rail Corridor<br />
Northeast Corridor (NEC)<br />
Other Passenger Rail Routes<br />
South Central<br />
Morshed says. But he also notes the federal<br />
stimulus funds would accelerate the<br />
awarding of the first big rail-construction<br />
contracts, including those for two bridge<br />
projects, between San Francisco and San<br />
Jose and between Los Angeles and Anaheim.<br />
Those awards could come as early<br />
as the end of the summer.<br />
In Contention<br />
Midwest officials also are in the game.<br />
Governors of five states in the region<br />
wrote to DOT Secretary Ray LaHood on<br />
April 10 to promote three corridors: Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison-Minneapolis/<br />
St.Paul-Chicago-St. Louis; Chicago-St.<br />
Louis; and Chicago-Detroit-Pontiac.<br />
States such as Illinois, Wisconsin and<br />
Michigan have ready-to-go projects that<br />
could qualify for the first round of rail<br />
stimulus grants, says Rick Harnish, executive<br />
director of the Midwest High<br />
Speed Rail Association, Chicago. That<br />
near-term work could include upgrading<br />
existing track, adding passing sidings and<br />
new signal systems, he says.<br />
Chicago Hub<br />
Network<br />
Gulf Coast<br />
Northern New England<br />
Empire<br />
Florida<br />
Keystone<br />
The Midwest also is in the running for<br />
the longer-range corridor-funding round,<br />
Harnish says. One possible candidate<br />
route is Chicago to St. Louis, with a goal<br />
of a trip of three and a half to four hours.<br />
He says of current train service, “If it’s on<br />
time, it’s five and a half.”<br />
In Florida, voters sank high-speed-rail<br />
plans in 2004, but advocates hope to revive<br />
the idea and tap stimulus money. In<br />
an April 1 letter to Florida High Speed<br />
Rail Authority Chairman Lee Chira, state<br />
DOT Secretary Stephanie C. Kopelousos<br />
proposed updating rail environmental<br />
documents and pursuing a federal record<br />
of decision. But she also noted $9 billion<br />
of transportation projects were deferred<br />
over two years and said it is “unlikely that<br />
new projects can be prioritized and [state]<br />
funds committed to this effort.”<br />
Amtrak also could be in the mix. “We<br />
anticipate that states and Amtrak, either<br />
in combination or separately, will be able<br />
to apply for these funds,” says Amtrak<br />
spokesman Cliff Black. The stimulus gives<br />
Amtrak $1.3 billion for capital improvements,<br />
and those funds are<br />
committed to specific projects<br />
(ENR 3/23, p.19).<br />
Black adds, “We do have<br />
other projects” that could<br />
be eligible for some of the<br />
$8 billion.<br />
Fredric Berger, chairman<br />
of The Louis Berger<br />
Group Inc. in Washington,<br />
D.C., was disappointed that<br />
DOT’s plan did not actively<br />
NEC embrace magnetic-levitation<br />
technology, although it<br />
does not exclude mag-lev<br />
from funding. Berger says<br />
Southeast mag-lev has energy-efficiency<br />
and other advantages<br />
over traditional rail. “It is<br />
21st-century, and why<br />
shouldn’t we be doing that”<br />
he asks. But Berger says<br />
DOT’s program will lead to<br />
substantial design, regulatory<br />
and other work.<br />
The prospect of new<br />
funds has charged up rail<br />
planners from coast to coast, but the funds<br />
will only take the plans part of the way.<br />
“The intent of the $8 billion was never<br />
that it would be the end-all and be-all for<br />
the development of high-speed rail,” says<br />
Peter Gertler, vice president and highspeed-rail<br />
practice chairman for design<br />
firm HNTB in Oakland, Calif. “More<br />
monies down the road will be required for<br />
the ultimate implementation,” he adds.<br />
To keep the stimulus momentum going,<br />
Obama has proposed an additional $1<br />
billion a year for five years for high-speed<br />
rail, starting in fiscal 2010. Even if Congress<br />
approves that request, billions more<br />
still would be needed to bring all the rail<br />
plans to completion.<br />
Peter Ruane, CEO of the American<br />
Road & Transportation Builders Association,<br />
has called for a new user fee dedicated<br />
to high-speed rail. HNTB’s Gertler<br />
says there is the potential that the next<br />
multiyear surface-transportation bill will<br />
include “a significant source for more substantive<br />
funding” for high-speed rail. <br />
By Tom Ichniowski and J.T. Long<br />
enr.com April 27, 2009 ENR 11
<strong>News</strong><br />
ECONOMIC STIMULUS<br />
BuRec and EPA Map Out<br />
$1.6 Billion of New Funding<br />
The amount of federal economicstimulus<br />
work continues to grow,<br />
with the April 15 announcements<br />
that the Interior Dept.’s Bureau of Reclamation<br />
has committed $1 billion to projects<br />
throughout the West and that the<br />
Environmental Protection Agency is dividing<br />
$600 million among Superfund<br />
projects at 50 sites.<br />
BuRec included about 30 large<br />
projects and an unspecified number<br />
of smaller ones that it plans to<br />
finance through the stimulus, the<br />
title of which is the American Recovery<br />
and Reinvestment Act<br />
(ARRA). California will receive<br />
the largest share at $260 million.<br />
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar<br />
says California’s projects will expand<br />
water supplies, repair aging<br />
infrastructure and attempt to<br />
mitigate drought effects. Salazar<br />
says an additional $135 million is<br />
available for water reuse and recycling<br />
projects in the state.<br />
California also has BuRec’s<br />
largest single stimulus project, a<br />
$109.8-million screened pumping<br />
plant at the Red Bluff Diversion<br />
Dam on the Sacramento River.<br />
The new plant would give endangered<br />
salmon and green sturgeon<br />
species unrestricted passage upstream<br />
and downstream.<br />
BuRec’s Great Plains Region<br />
will get $234.5 million, including<br />
$59 million for water treatment<br />
plants, an intake structure and<br />
storage facilities at the Garrison<br />
Diversion Unit in North Dakota,<br />
as well as $56.5 million to accelerate<br />
construction of a water-treatment<br />
plant near Vermillion, S.D.<br />
The Pacific Northwest Region<br />
will receive $125.2 million, including<br />
$50 million to build a siphon<br />
complex near Moses Lake, Wash. The allocation<br />
for the Lower Colorado Region<br />
is $107.9 million, Upper Colorado Region<br />
$28.3 million and the Central Utah<br />
Project $50 million.<br />
The bureau does not have a timetable<br />
yet for getting the stimulus projects under<br />
contract, says spokesman Kip White. He<br />
Bureau of Reclamation Stimulus Projects<br />
MID-PACIFIC REGION 260.0<br />
Red Bluff Diversion Dam, Calif. (screened pumping plant) 109.8<br />
Battle Creek, Calif. (salmon/steelhead restoration plan) 26.0<br />
GREAT PLAINS REGION 234.5<br />
Garrison Diversion Unit, N.D. (water-treatment plants,<br />
intake structure, storage facilities)<br />
Lewis and Clark rural water system, S.D., Minn., Iowa<br />
(accelerate water-treatment-plant construction)<br />
Fort Peck/Dry Prairie project, Mont. (finish water-treatment<br />
plant, water-supply lines<br />
LOWER COLORADO REGION 107.9<br />
Pima-Maricopa irrigation project, Ariz. (canal mileage<br />
and check structures)<br />
Yuma area, Ariz. (repair, replace water-management and<br />
-delivery facilities)<br />
PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION 125.2<br />
Weber siphon complex, Wash. 50.0<br />
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT 50.0<br />
Utah lake-system pipelines 41.0<br />
UPPER COLORADO REGION 28.3<br />
Animas-La Plata, Colo., N.M. (Navajo Nation pipeline,<br />
other projects)<br />
SOURCES: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION<br />
Largest. Red Bluff Diversion Dam to get pumping plant.<br />
says BuRec will measure projects against<br />
several criteria, including how shovelready<br />
they are as the agency moves into<br />
the contracting stage. White says the<br />
stimulus contracts will be managed by<br />
BuRec’s five regions and the Central Utah<br />
Project office. “That is the way all of our<br />
contracting is done,” he adds.<br />
EPA says its Superfund stimulus funds<br />
will speed hazardous-waste cleanup already<br />
under way and fund new projects.<br />
It plans to use the aid on National Priorities<br />
List sites, primarily on existing<br />
contracts. New Jersey has eight sites on<br />
the stimulus list, the most of any state.<br />
More than $25 million per location<br />
will go to sites in New Bedford<br />
Harbor, Mass.; Camden/<br />
Gloucester, N.J.; Florence Township,<br />
N.J.; South Plainfield, N.J.;<br />
Ottawa County, Okla.; Omaha,<br />
Neb.; and Eureka, Utah.<br />
59.0 One of the first beneficiaries<br />
will be the Iron Mountain Mine<br />
56.5 site near Redding, Calif., set to<br />
receive $10 million to $25 million.<br />
The money is expected to<br />
40.0<br />
cut the time needed to dredge,<br />
treat and dispose of sediment in<br />
the Keswick Reservoir’s Spring<br />
36.8<br />
Creek Arm from three years to 18<br />
months. The stimulus also will<br />
36.25<br />
help finance pipelines and pump<br />
stations to move contaminated<br />
sediment from the Spring Creek<br />
Arm to a disposal cell, construction<br />
of which will begin in May.<br />
The project has been divided<br />
into four packages. Three covering<br />
the pumping station, pipeline<br />
12.1 and treatment plant already have<br />
been put out for bid. Within the<br />
next two months, EPA expects to<br />
bid the final package, for dredging,<br />
says Rick Sugarek, EPA’s project<br />
manager.<br />
Factors EPA considered in selecting<br />
the ARRA-funded sites<br />
include readiness, human and ecological<br />
risk and opportunities to<br />
trim costs and schedules. <br />
By Pam Hunter<br />
and Tom Ichniowski<br />
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION<br />
12 ENR April 27, 2009 enr.com
PHOTO BY AP/WIDEWORLD<br />
CORRUPTION<br />
Illinois Boosts Project Funding<br />
But Not Without Major Reform<br />
Scrutiny. Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges.<br />
With one former governor in federal<br />
prison and another possibly<br />
on his way, prosecutors have argued<br />
that Illinois is perhaps the most corrupt<br />
state in the nation. Fed up with the<br />
scandals, lawmakers are promising<br />
changes in the way contractors do business<br />
with the Land of Lincoln.<br />
In the wake of scandal and the economic<br />
stimulus act, proposals for reform<br />
measures are flowing through both chambers<br />
of the statehouse in Springfield, Ill.<br />
“We haven’t seen the final package yet,<br />
but indications are they are comprehensive<br />
and far-reaching,” says Rep. Kathleen<br />
Ryg (D), who is sponsoring a bill to prioritize<br />
transportation projects. Issues under<br />
discussion include greater accountability<br />
in the bid process, transparency of<br />
contracts, public access to information,<br />
inclusion and documentation of minority<br />
and women-owned enterprises and tighter<br />
restrictions on campaign contributions.<br />
Industry supporters say they are encouraged<br />
by the buzz. “We’ve struggled<br />
too long under this cloud,” says Mike<br />
Sturino, president of the Itasca, Ill.-based<br />
Illinois Road and Transportation Builders<br />
Association. “It has made the state less<br />
competitive because businesses are hesitant<br />
to relocate here, and the public is less<br />
willing to support programs because of<br />
suspicion of the government.”<br />
Meanwhile, the state is ramping up for<br />
increased infrastructure spending. If recently<br />
appointed Gov. Patrick Quinn (D)<br />
gets his way, the state will see its first<br />
capital bill in 10 years. Called Illinois Jobs<br />
Now, the $26-billion budget includes $14<br />
billion for roads and bridges and $5 billion<br />
for public transit. It will be funded<br />
through a combination of state, federal<br />
and local funds and fees. Authorization<br />
for the first $3 billion came on April 3,<br />
when Gov. Quinn signed into law HB-<br />
289, also called the “Jump Start Capital<br />
Plan” or the “mini-capital bill,” for critical<br />
infrastructure improvements.<br />
Illinois also has received $1.6 billion in<br />
federal stimulus funds for infrastructure<br />
enhancements and repair to existing<br />
roads. The contracts were let for so-called<br />
shovel-ready projects.<br />
April 3 was the same day ousted Gov.<br />
Rod Blagojevich, his brother Robert and<br />
four others were indicted on federal corruption<br />
charges for their fund-raising<br />
activities (ENR 4/13 p. 9). Among them<br />
are two construction executives: roofing<br />
contractor Christopher Kelly and William<br />
Cellini, head of the Illinois Asphalt<br />
Pavement Association. All deny the<br />
charges.<br />
As for reforms, two panels are working<br />
on recommendations. The Illinois Reform<br />
Commission was assembled by Gov.<br />
Quinn, and the Joint Commission on<br />
Government Reform is made up of state<br />
lawmakers. The governor’s office also<br />
launched a new Website where people can<br />
report wrongdoing, fraud and waste at all<br />
levels of state and municipal government<br />
(www.whistleblower.illinois.gov).<br />
One legislative proposal gaining bipartisan<br />
traction is Ryg’s HB-2359, the<br />
Transportation Investment and Accountability<br />
Act. The bill advocates forming a<br />
new Illinois Transportation Policy Committee<br />
that would prioritize capital projects<br />
for the Illinois Dept. of Transportation,<br />
provide greater transparency for<br />
contracts and level opportunities for contractors<br />
in different locations.<br />
Not all cleanup efforts are legislated.<br />
IDOT is conducting two assessments on<br />
its own to develop a risk-management<br />
plan. One specifically is aimed at stimulus<br />
projects for financing, staffing and contracting<br />
public works. Some high-risk<br />
areas, such as subrecipient monitoring,<br />
already have been identified and a mitigation<br />
plan put in place, says Paris Ervin,<br />
IDOT communication manager. In addition,<br />
Illinois is one of 16 states whose<br />
stimulus spending will be audited by the<br />
federal government.<br />
“Everyone is keeping a close eye on<br />
how money is spent, and that’s the way it<br />
should be,” says Daniel Gallagher, president<br />
of Thornton, Ill.-based Gallagher<br />
Asphalt Corp. and a board member for<br />
the National Asphalt Pavement Association.<br />
“We don’t want another Bridge to<br />
Nowhere kind of thing.” <br />
By Pamela Dittmer McKuen<br />
enr.com April 27, 2009 ENR 13
<strong>News</strong><br />
CLAIMS<br />
Thornton-Tomasetti Is Cleared<br />
In Indiana Library Defect Suit<br />
In the latest twist in a long controversy,<br />
an Indiana circuit court<br />
jury on April 15 cleared structural<br />
engineer Thornton-Tomasetti<br />
Inc., New York City, of fraud<br />
charges brought by the Indianapolis-Marion<br />
County Public Library,<br />
related to the troubled renovation<br />
and expansion of the city’s<br />
central library.<br />
The library project originally<br />
was budgeted at $103 million but<br />
was completed two years late, in<br />
December 2007, and as much as<br />
$50 million over budget. Other<br />
project contractors previously settled with<br />
the library for a total of $21.5 million,<br />
including its construction manager, a joint<br />
venture of Turner <strong>Construction</strong> Co.,<br />
Trotter <strong>Construction</strong> Co. Inc. and Shiel<br />
Sexton Co. Inc. But the jury declined to<br />
award the library $24.5 million from<br />
Thornton-Tomasetti after a five-week<br />
trial. It also awarded the firm $712,000<br />
Done. Library’s structural engineer was sued by project owner.<br />
sought in a countersuit. “In 30 years of<br />
practicing engineering, including forensic<br />
engineering, I’ve never heard a case like<br />
that,” says firm CEO Daniel Cuoco.<br />
The library says it “continued to seek<br />
legal redress because we believed in the<br />
validity of our claim that there were issues<br />
with Thornton-Tomasetti’s work.” In<br />
2003, cracks were observed in columns<br />
and beams supporting a new two-story<br />
underground garage, which also served as<br />
a foundation for the six-story expansion.<br />
Library officials claimed that Thornton-<br />
Tomasetti contributed to the problem by<br />
adding rebar to the gararge and misrepresented<br />
its rationale for the change.<br />
Cuoco contends that honeycombing<br />
had formed—possibly<br />
due in part to a lack of vibration<br />
of concrete—after forms were<br />
stripped in the post-tensioned garage.<br />
He says the firm recommended<br />
adding rebar to correct the<br />
problem. “I wouldn’t say it was a<br />
unique situation for a concrete<br />
project,” Cuoco says. The project<br />
was halted in March 2004 but eventually<br />
was completed by Smoot<br />
<strong>Construction</strong> Co., Columbus,<br />
Ohio.<br />
Mike Coghlan, capital projects<br />
manager for the library, would not speculate<br />
on why the other contractors agreed<br />
to settle, and executives of those firms<br />
could not be reached. Coghlan says the<br />
library’s board of directors met in executive<br />
committee on April 16 to discuss<br />
whether to pursue further legal remedies<br />
but did not announce any future step. <br />
By Craig Barner<br />
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION<br />
Guam Needs More U.S. Funds To Redeploy Military, Says GAO<br />
Even with billions committed<br />
by the U.S. military to Guam<br />
infrastructure upgrades to<br />
support proposed troop redeployment<br />
there, the U.S. Government<br />
Accountability Offi ce says the tiny<br />
island needs more U.S. government<br />
help to cover its required share of<br />
costs to expand ports and roads,<br />
the power grid and water-wastewater<br />
facilities needed to accommodate<br />
a projected 15% population<br />
increase.<br />
GAO says that the U.S. Defense<br />
Dept. is funding infrastructure<br />
costs on Guam “directly related” to<br />
the movement of 17,000 U.S. Marines<br />
and dependents from the island<br />
of Okinawa and from other<br />
locations, as well as providing<br />
“some funds toward civilian infrastructure.”<br />
But the Guam government must<br />
fund “civilian requirements related<br />
to the buildup,” GAO says. Island<br />
offi cials already have told the Senate<br />
Energy and Natural Resources<br />
Committee that they would request<br />
at least $6.1 billion for fi scal 2010<br />
to fund infrastructure work. According<br />
to GAO, Guam’s wastewater<br />
treatment plants are operating<br />
at near capacity and face a 25%<br />
demand increase, while its electric<br />
grid is “inadequate.”<br />
GAO contends that while a federal<br />
governmentwide working<br />
group coordinates Guam funding<br />
needs, it does not have authority to<br />
direct agency budget allocations.<br />
GAO says only pressure from top<br />
DOD offi cials “can marshal the resources<br />
from member agencies”<br />
needed to meet Guam’s infrastructure<br />
needs.<br />
GAO says construction on Guam<br />
could start in fi scal 2010 to meet<br />
the projected 2014 deadline for<br />
troop movements, but military and<br />
industry sources speculate that<br />
overall funding issues in the U.S.<br />
and in Japan, which is also set to<br />
fund redeployment, could push<br />
that date back. There also are delays<br />
in completing required environmental<br />
reviews.<br />
DOD Deputy Undersecretary<br />
Wayne Army concurs with the report<br />
but says the time allowed for<br />
its review was “compressed.” According<br />
to Guam Congresswoman<br />
Madeline Bordallo, DOD’s concurrence<br />
with the GAO report’s conclusion<br />
is “signifi cant.” <br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF INDIANAPOLIS-MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY<br />
14 ENR April 27, 2009 enr.com
PICTURES COURTESY OF THE FLORIDA DEPT. OF HEALTH<br />
MATERIALS<br />
Problems Continue To Grow<br />
With Drywall Made in China<br />
Amid a growing chorus of complaints,<br />
two U.S. Senators have<br />
introduced legislation to recall<br />
Chinese-made drywall and to ban further<br />
imports until federal safety standards are<br />
developed. Meanwhile, Florida’s governor<br />
has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection<br />
Agency to help the state develop and<br />
implement chemical-testing strategies.<br />
Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and<br />
Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) introduced<br />
legislation on Mar 30 pressing the Consumer<br />
Product Safety Commission to<br />
recall Chinese-made drywall and work<br />
with federal testing labs to determine the<br />
exact level of hazard posed by off-gassing<br />
from the drywall. The bill also calls for an<br />
interim ban on imports. “This defective<br />
Normal<br />
Chinese drywall represents an attack on<br />
our homeowners, a defrauding of our<br />
homebuilders and another obstacle on our<br />
road to recovery,” says Landrieu. “The<br />
federal government now has a responsibility<br />
to assess the full scope of the problem<br />
and immediately prohibit further<br />
importation.”<br />
Since 2006 over 550 million lb of drywall<br />
has been imported to the U.S., with<br />
60% going to Florida, say the senators.<br />
Nelson says about 60 million lb arrived in<br />
Louisiana and 27 million lb in Mississippi<br />
during that same period. Landrieu and<br />
Nelson estimate between 60,000 and<br />
100,000 homes may contain “potentially<br />
defective drywall.” Other states affected<br />
by the imported material include Virginia,<br />
Abnormal<br />
Puzzle. Chinese-made drywall could be the cause of household corrosion and sulfur smells.<br />
Alabama and California.<br />
Earlier this year, several lawsuits were<br />
filed in Florida alleging products from<br />
Knauf Gips KG, Knauf Plasterboard<br />
Tianjin Co. Ltd. (KPT) and Taishan Gypsum<br />
Co. Ltd. produced sulfur-smelling<br />
gasses and corrosion of copper wiring and<br />
piping (ENR 2/9 p. 15). KPT says its<br />
half-inch drywall was imported between<br />
January and October 2006 and represents<br />
less than 20% of the Chinese plasterboard<br />
imported between 2005 and 2007.<br />
At least 289 complaints have been recorded<br />
by the Florida Dept. of Health<br />
(FDOH). On April 3, Florida Gov. Charlie<br />
Crist (R) wrote the Environmental<br />
Protection Agency and Centers for Disease<br />
Control and Prevention requesting<br />
assistance with chemical testing. He noted<br />
that preliminary FDOH tests confirmed<br />
“the presence of strontium sulfide and<br />
elemental sulfur in drywall from China.”<br />
Further, the testing confirmed that the<br />
drywall generated hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl<br />
sulfide and carbon disulfide when<br />
exposed to high humidity or heat. “All of<br />
these compounds are capable of causing<br />
the type of corrosion identified in the<br />
complaint homes and at sufficient concentrations<br />
could pose a health hazard,” says<br />
Crist. He wants a testing program to see<br />
if a health advisory is warranted.<br />
In late January, FDOH commissioned<br />
an analysis of four drywall samples: one<br />
American-made, one unmarked, one<br />
marked Knauf and one marked Made in<br />
China. The report from Unified <strong>Engineering</strong><br />
Inc., Aurora, Ill., noted there is a<br />
distinct difference in drywall manufactured<br />
in the U.S. and China. “The Chinese<br />
samples contained traces of strontium<br />
sulfide inclusions and more organic<br />
material than the [U.S.] sample,” it said.<br />
“However, it is not yet known if either<br />
contributed to the odor. The Chinese<br />
samples gave off a sulfur odor when exposed<br />
to extreme heat and moisture.”<br />
Different types of drywall may have<br />
been used in the same house. “We are in<br />
the process of identifying a lab for further<br />
testing of indoor-air samples,” says Susan<br />
S. Smith, FDOH press secretary. <br />
By William J. Angelo, with Steven Setzer<br />
enr.com April 27, 2009 ENR 15
<strong>Construction</strong> Economics<br />
Cost Indexes<br />
<strong>Construction</strong> Cost Index<br />
This month’s 0.1% decline in the CCI<br />
also pulled down the index’s annual<br />
infl ation rate by 0.1%.<br />
APRIL 2009 % CHG. % CHG.<br />
20-CITY: 1913=100 INDEX VALUE MONTH YEAR<br />
CONSTRUCTION COST 8528.39 –0.1 +5.1<br />
COMMON LABOR 18015.79 0.0 +5.4<br />
WAGE $/HR. 34.23 0.0 +5.4<br />
Building Cost Index<br />
A 0.3% dip in materials costs cut the<br />
BCI’s annual escalation rate from 4.3%<br />
last month to 4.1%.<br />
APRIL 2009 % CHG. % CHG.<br />
20-CITY: 1913=100 INDEX VALUE MONTH YEAR<br />
BUILDING COST 4761.05 –0.1 +4.1<br />
SKILLED LABOR 8112.22 0.0 +4.1<br />
WAGE $/HR. 45.02 0.0 +4.1<br />
Materials Cost Index<br />
Cement, steel and lumber prices all<br />
fell, dragging year-to-year materials<br />
escalation down to 4.1%.<br />
APRIL 2009 % CHG. % CHG.<br />
20-CITY: 1913=100 INDEX VALUE MONTH YEAR<br />
MATERIALS 2713.54 –0.3 +4.1<br />
CEMENT $/TON 100.91 –0.8 –0.4<br />
STEEL $/CWT 44.83 –0.2 +8.4<br />
LUMBER $/MBF 411.60 –0.7 –4.2<br />
Public Works Keeps Head Above Water<br />
While public sector growth has<br />
slowed in recent months (see<br />
chart), public construction this<br />
February remained slightly ahead of<br />
February 2008’s pace. On a<br />
seasonally adjusted basis, total public<br />
construction in February was running<br />
at an annual rate of $301 billion,<br />
which was up 0.8% from January and<br />
3.4% from February 2008’s pace,<br />
according to the U.S. Dept. of<br />
Commerce. On a year-to-date basis,<br />
total public construction through the<br />
fi rst two months of the year totaled<br />
$38.8 billion, or 0.9% above the same<br />
period a year ago. This was better<br />
than the 15% year-to-year decline<br />
recorded for the private sector during<br />
the same period.<br />
The institutional offi ce building<br />
market is off to a strong start, with<br />
$2.37 billion in new construction<br />
put-in-place through February. That<br />
was 20.9% above 2008’s total. Public<br />
school work accounted for $11.7<br />
billion of all public works during the<br />
fi rst two months of the year. That<br />
market was up 5.2% above 2008’s<br />
level. Highway construction appears<br />
to be waiting for its stimulus push.<br />
Through February, highway work was<br />
running 2% below a year ago.<br />
Sewerage work was down 3.4%.<br />
$ BIL.<br />
317<br />
311<br />
305<br />
299<br />
Total Public <strong>Construction</strong><br />
OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB.<br />
2008–2009<br />
SOURCE: U.S. DEPT OF COMMERCE. CONSTRUCTION PUT-IN-PLACE,<br />
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED RATE IN CURRENT DOLLARS.<br />
Public <strong>Construction</strong><br />
MARKET: YEAR-TO-DATE 2009 2008 % CHG. % CHG.<br />
$ BIL. FEB. FEB. MONTH YEAR<br />
TOTAL PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION 38.83 38.48 +0.6 +0.9<br />
Residential 1.06 1.04 +4.2 +1.9<br />
Office 2.37 1.96 –2.5 +20.9<br />
Commercial 0.48 0.50 –8.4 –4.0<br />
Health care 1.40 1.37 +3.1 +2.2<br />
Educational 11.73 11.16 –0.5 +5.1<br />
Public safety 1.92 1.62 –6.0 +18.5<br />
Amusement and recreation 1.52 1.59 +4.7 –4.4<br />
Transportation 3.24 3.31 +3.8 –2.1<br />
Power 1.20 1.66 +10.0 –27.7<br />
Highway and street 7.54 7.70 +2.1 –2.1<br />
Sewage and waste disposal 3.35 3.47 –0.6 –3.5<br />
Water supply 2.16 2.04 –0.9 +5.9<br />
Conservation and development 0.74 0.81 0.0 –8.6<br />
SOURCE: DEPT. OF COMMERCE, CONSTRUCTION PUT-IN-PLACE.<br />
Structural Steel, Rebar, Building Sheet, Piling<br />
ITEM UNIT ATLANTA BALTIMORE BIRMINGHAM BOSTON CHICAGO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND DALLAS DENVER DETROIT KANSAS CITY<br />
STANDARD STRUCTURAL SHAPES: AVERAGE cwt 42.12 –45.00 56.17 43.56 +37.85 –45.00 48.50 41.35 39.97 38.92 65.48<br />
Channel beams, 6” DEEP, 8.2 LB/LF cwt 43.44 –44.00 55.10 41.22 +37.00 45.00 50.83 41.00 37.42 42.97 62.65<br />
I-beams, 6” DEEP, 12.5 lb/lf cwt 45.88 –48.00 61.45 44.60 +36.75 –45.00 46.23 38.92 42.10 37.65 68.65<br />
Wide-flange, 8” DEEP, 31 LB/LF cwt 37.04 –43.00 51.95 44.85 +39.80 –45.00 48.44 44.12 40.38 36.14 65.15<br />
REINFORCING BARS:<br />
Grade 60, #4 cwt 41.70 –35.00 44.50 39.30 +38.52 28.00 40.00 38.35 40.55 39.00 62.00<br />
Epoxy-coated cwt — — — 56.17 57.25 — 63.00 — 46.98 53.00 —<br />
HOT-ROLLED CARBON STEEL PLATE:<br />
12 gauge, 48” x 10’ cwt 39.00 –40.00 50.65 35.78 38.39 –35.00 74.80 42.15 40.37 68.12 49.00<br />
EXPANDED METAL LATH:<br />
Std diamond mesh, 3.4 LB/SY, GALVANIZED cwt 194.00 230.00 150.00 178.40 191.78 243.00 — 195.40 197.08 — —<br />
Flat-ribbed, 3.4 lb/sy cwt 217.00 — 193.00 207.27 217.25 — — 223.25 201.12 — —<br />
BUILDING SHEET & PLATE:<br />
Aluminum sheet, 3003H14, 36” x 96” cwt 191.00 178.50 193.00 187.00 180.60 –180.00 220.90 193.90 197.00 220.00 —<br />
STAINLESS STEEL SHEET:<br />
14 gauge cwt 171.90 –110.00 197.00 134.00 137.37 –120.50 190.90 142.20 159.00 242.00 135.00<br />
16 gauge cwt 167.31 –111.00 212.00 136.80 138.50 –122.50 230.30 146.00 165.00 240.00 136.00<br />
20 gauge cwt 172.32 –119.00 246.00 142.46 145.65 –124.50 228.23 148.00 172.50 240.00 141.00<br />
STAINLESS STEEL PLATE:<br />
304, 1/4”, 72” x 240” cwt 175.80 –134.00 275.00 144.45 188.00 –198.00 152.50 176.15 185.00 250.00 184.00<br />
316, 1/4”, 96” x 140” cwt 243.60 +275.00 — 277.29 206.95 –401.00 290.00 202.34 231.00 285.00 156.00<br />
STEEL PILING: H-PILE<br />
HP10 x 42 cwt 27.75 –55 69.20 25.88 25.34 58.00 24.75 25.53 28.10 25.20 —<br />
+ or – denotes price has risen or fallen since previous report. Monthly market quotations by ENR fi eld reporters as of April 17, 2009. All prices are spot prices quoted from a single source. All prices<br />
are FOB warehouse except metal lath, which is FOB city. Stainless steel sheet prices are for type 304, 2B fi nish, 48 x 120-in. Steel piles are high-strength A572. Some prices may include taxes or<br />
discounts for prompt payment, etc. Product specifi cations may vary depending on what is most commonly used or most accessible in a city. All quantities are truckloads unless noted. Quotes for<br />
16 ENR April 27, 2009 enr.com
Recession Cuts Into Rebar Prices<br />
Growing weakness in the nonresidential<br />
building market is cutting into prices for<br />
concrete reinforcing bar. In April, ENR’s 20-city<br />
average price for rebar fell 3.4%. The most<br />
recent decline pushed rebar prices 10.1%<br />
below last summer’s peak. However, the<br />
market is still feeling the impact of a record<br />
ENR’s Materials Price Indexes<br />
1992=100<br />
215<br />
210<br />
205<br />
200<br />
195<br />
190<br />
1992=100<br />
157<br />
156<br />
155<br />
154<br />
153<br />
Structural Steel, Rebar, Building Sheet, Piling<br />
ITEM<br />
WIDE-FLANGE<br />
J A S O N D J F M A<br />
2008-2009<br />
During the last eight months<br />
prices have declined 10.1%.<br />
ALUMINUM SHEET<br />
152<br />
J A S O N D J F M A<br />
2008-2009<br />
Recent declines have pushed prices<br />
0.9% below a year ago.<br />
1992=100<br />
215<br />
210<br />
205<br />
200<br />
195<br />
SOURCE: MCGRAW-HILL CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH & ANALYTICS/ENR.<br />
surge in prices during the fi rst half of last year<br />
and ENR’s average rebar price is still 4.2%<br />
above a year ago. That year-to-year escalation<br />
rate should start to fall off in coming months as<br />
prices continue to weaken and the market<br />
moves “out of range” of the steep price hikes<br />
posted in May and June of last year.<br />
REINFORCING BAR<br />
190<br />
J A S O N D J F M A<br />
2008-2009<br />
Prices have fallen 10.4%<br />
since last August.<br />
1992=100<br />
135 170<br />
132 166<br />
129 162<br />
126 164<br />
123 154<br />
120 150<br />
STAINLESS STEEL SHEET<br />
J A S O N D J F M A<br />
2008-2009<br />
Prices held steady<br />
after falling 10% below last year’s level.<br />
20-City Average<br />
enr.com<br />
FOR A COMPLETE HISTORY OF COST<br />
INDEXES, VISIT OUR WEBSITE, ENR.COM.<br />
% CHG. % CHG.<br />
ITEM UNIT PRICE MO. YEAR<br />
STANDARD STRUCTURAL SHAPES: AVERAGE cwt 44.53 –0.7 +5.7<br />
Channel beams, 6” DEEP, 8.2 LB/LF cwt 44.71 –0.4 +7.8<br />
I-beams, 6” DEEP, 12.5 LB/LF cwt 45.05 –0.8 +4.5<br />
Wide-flange, 8” DEEP, 31 LB/LF cwt 43.84 –0.8 +4.9<br />
REINFORCING BARS:<br />
Grade 60, #4 cwt 39.51 –3.4 +4.2<br />
Epoxy-coated cwt 57.87 0.0 +6.1<br />
HOT-ROLLED CARBON STEEL PLATE:<br />
12 gauge, 48” x 10’ cwt 48.60 –1.5 +8.7<br />
EXPANDED METAL LATH:<br />
Std diamond mesh, 3.4 LB/SY, GALVANIZED cwt 201.43 0.0 –1.3<br />
Flat-ribbed, 3.4 LB/SY cwt 217.82 0.0 +0.4<br />
BUILDING SHEET & PLATE:<br />
Aluminum sheet, 3003H14, 36” x 96” cwt 190.98 0.0 –0.9<br />
STAINLESS STEEL SHEET:<br />
14 gauge cwt 165.84 –0.3 –11.4<br />
16 gauge cwt 174.56 –0.3 –9.5<br />
20 gauge cwt 175.41 –0.2 –8.2<br />
STAINLESS STEEL PLATE:<br />
304, 1/4”, 72” x 240” cwt 183.97 –0.2 –4.5<br />
316, 1/4”, 96” x 140” cwt 232.85 –0.3 +0.2<br />
STEEL PILING: H-PILE<br />
HP10 x 42 cwt 32.06 –1.5 +0.7<br />
Canada<br />
UNIT LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE MONTREAL TORONTO<br />
STANDARD STRUCTURAL SHAPES: AVERAGE cwt 45.49 34.06 40.04 51.60 46.13 44.80 +43.60 44.15 +36.90 +63.33 69.33<br />
Channel beams, 6” DEEP, 8.2 LB/LF cwt 44.70 42.13 38.07 51.60 45.85 40.80 55.02 43.26 32.19 –50.00 70.00<br />
I-beams, 6” DEEP, 12.5 lb/lf cwt 46.71 30.05 39.30 52.80 46.95 48.00 38.79 45.30 37.93 +85.00 73.00<br />
Wide-flange, 8” DEEP, 31 LB/LF cwt 45.07 29.99 42.75 50.40 45.60 45.60 36.98 43.88 40.57 55.00 65.00<br />
REINFORCING BARS:<br />
Grade 60, #4 cwt 41.41 37.00 39.30 54.00 37.15 44.85 34.00 40.46 38.53 49.00 —<br />
Epoxy-coated cwt 59.52 57.00 — — 51.48 57.50 70.00 57.74 — 82.00 —<br />
HOT-ROLLED CARBON STEEL PLATE:<br />
12 gauge, 48” x 10’ cwt 47.05 80.00 38.08 — 39.77 42.00 90.50 44.02 31.70 48.00 75.00<br />
EXPANDED METAL LATH:<br />
Std diamond mesh, 3.4 LB/SY, GALVANIZED cwt 198.10 112.50 194.41 — 268.15 — — 198.90 175.50 — —<br />
Flat-ribbed, 3.4 lb/sy cwt 215.30 156.25 225.18 — 278.00 — — 216.01 187.75 — —<br />
BUILDING SHEET & PLATE:<br />
Aluminum sheet, 3003H14, 36” x 96” cwt 187.48 208.00 184.43 — 170.65 171.00 220.90 188.36 190.84 180.00 275.00<br />
STAINLESS STEEL SHEET:<br />
14 gauge cwt 175.99 238.00 162.55 — 137.85 154.00 238.00 182.81 155.80 93.00 274.00<br />
16 gauge cwt 185.76 292.00 168.48 — 139.35 156.00 255.00 184.39 170.05 95.00 274.00<br />
20 gauge cwt 180.94 251.92 171.55 — 142.00 164.00 239.00 182.11 159.55 97.00 274.00<br />
STAINLESS STEEL PLATE:<br />
304, 1/4”, 72” x 240” cwt 184.29 261.41 162.42 — 132.90 164.00 195.50 184.99 209.00 107.00 290.00<br />
316, 1/4”, 96” x 140” cwt 230.78 270.00 192.15 — 143.70 200.00 262.00 231.81 193.60 104.00 330.59<br />
STEEL PILING: H-PILE<br />
HP10 x 42 cwt 28.99 25.20 27.40 — 25.15 — 23.80 29.36 26.31 +80.00 63.00<br />
Montreal and Toronto are in Canadian dollars and a mix of metric and American units. The above prices are not intended to represent the prevailing or average price in a city but are designed to track<br />
price movement from a single source for a given quantity and specifi cation over time.<br />
enr.com April 27, 2009 ENR 17
Cover Story Bridges<br />
By Janice L. Tuchman in Mumbai with Neelam Mathews<br />
LONG ROAD TO
Reality<br />
Long-awaited link across<br />
the bay will ease traffic and<br />
create a signature gateway<br />
to Mumbai<br />
After years of legal delays, monsoons, heavy lifting<br />
and a lot of fancy formwork, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, a 4.7-<br />
kilometer viaduct with two cable-stayed spans, made its final connection<br />
on April 20 and is slated to open to traffic in mid-May. When<br />
it does, the bypass over the sea will cut the time of a trip across<br />
Mahim Bay in Mumbai, India, from about 40 minutes to just six.<br />
Drivers who had to suffer through 23 traffic lights to make the<br />
trip from Bandra in north Mumbai to Worli in the southern part<br />
of the city will face only four on the new route, planned by the<br />
Maharashtra State Road Development Corp.<br />
Hindustan <strong>Construction</strong> Co. (HCC)<br />
started work on the project in 2000. It<br />
faced a one-year delay because the developer<br />
could not gain access to the site. An<br />
original 1998 design by Jacobs Sverdrup<br />
called for the original cable-stayed span’s<br />
twin decks to share pylons. This design<br />
was modified in 2003 by Dar al-Handasah<br />
Shair and Partners, London. MSRDC<br />
had decided to build one of the twin decks<br />
ahead of the other, hoping for an earlier<br />
start for toll revenue, so Dar al-Handasah<br />
revised the structure so that each deck was<br />
independently supported by its own pylon.<br />
But more delay was ahead. The Bandra<br />
cable-stayed section was planned so that<br />
fishing boats from the Mahim fishing village<br />
could pass below the bridge without<br />
getting shattered by monsoon waves. The<br />
original design had only one 500-meterlong<br />
cable-stayed section, with 50-m transition<br />
spans on both sides. Then, after the<br />
contract was awarded to HCC, the Worli<br />
fishing village at the other end protested.<br />
Villagers went to court claiming they<br />
should not be forced to go all the way to<br />
Bandra to pass through the channel. The<br />
courts agreed, and the design was sig-<br />
Inclined. Two four-legged pylons lean<br />
together, creating a formwork challenge.<br />
nificantly altered by adding the second<br />
cable-stayed bridge, which is 350 m long,<br />
including transition spans. Environmental<br />
objections to the project also went all the<br />
way to India’s Supreme Court, resulting<br />
in moving the alignment 200 m farther<br />
away from shore.<br />
Through all this, HCC stuck with the<br />
job, its leaders say, not just because they<br />
had invested so much in specialized equipment.<br />
“Apart from investing our money,<br />
we had invested our heart and soul. We<br />
are confident we will be long remembered<br />
for having brought ease to Mumbai’s commuters,”<br />
said Jimmy Mogal, HCC’s vice<br />
president of corporate communications.<br />
Rough Seas<br />
The work then faced its natural challenge:<br />
the tides and storms of India’s west coast<br />
on the Arabian Sea. Santosh Rai, HCC<br />
planning manager, says the contractor had<br />
to plan the job around monsoons, where<br />
winds range from 70 or 80 kilometers per<br />
hour up to 120 kmph. The bridge is designed<br />
to withstand 264 kmph winds at<br />
the top of the towers and 150 kmph at the<br />
bridge deck level. At some parts of the<br />
site, “we had to stop work during every<br />
monsoon for five months,” Rai says, because<br />
the authorities do not allow naviga-<br />
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photo by janice l. tuchman for enr
Cover Story Bridges<br />
tion during monsoons. Workers, materials<br />
and equipment move out to the farthest<br />
piers each day by boat. Work also faced<br />
the daily challenge of the area’s high tides.<br />
To overcome this problem, HCC built a<br />
temporary bridge and used it to move<br />
crews, materials and equipment out to the<br />
pylon area.<br />
HCC chief engineer D.K. Sharma says<br />
this is the first cable-stayed bridge built<br />
under sea conditions in this part of the<br />
world. “We had storms where we did<br />
have to stop work,” he adds. During a<br />
storm last September, for example, HCC<br />
had to send crews into refuge areas built<br />
into the piers. “For three days, we were<br />
able to provide food, water and facilities,<br />
but we could not get them out,” he says.<br />
Boats got close enough to throw in supplies<br />
but could not land without damaging<br />
the structures.<br />
Even in calmer weather, logistics were<br />
a huge issue. HCC had to transport 10 or<br />
12 segments per day and supply materials<br />
to 30 different work locations. Crews<br />
worked in shifts, with 800 to 900 workers<br />
dispatched to different locations each<br />
morning. “Then, through the day, food<br />
had to be supplied to each and every person,<br />
giving tea breaks, for example. We<br />
had to arrange so many things for so many<br />
locations,” Rai says. Equipment on-site at<br />
the peak of construction included 22<br />
barges, four tugboats, five jackup platforms,<br />
34 smaller cranes and seven tower<br />
cranes.<br />
Exposed Rock.<br />
K.R. Visvanath, HCC’s vice president of<br />
construction, says the job also faced highly<br />
variable geotechnical conditions and a<br />
highly uneven foundation bed of basalts,<br />
volcanic tuffs and breccias overlain by<br />
completely weathered rocks and residual<br />
soils. The strength of the rock varied from<br />
extremely weak to extremely strong, complicating<br />
foundation work. “The intertidal<br />
zone on the Worli side was all exposed<br />
rock at low tide,” he said. Foundations<br />
included more than 600 large-diameter<br />
piles, with a rock-socketed length up to<br />
34 m. Tests for the piles were conducted<br />
using the Osterberg load-cell method,<br />
with test loads of up to 5,600 tonnes.<br />
The pylons for the cable-stayed towers<br />
were challenging to construct both above<br />
and below the bridge deck. Sharma says<br />
the inspiration for the shape of the pylon<br />
was the traditional Indian greeting, or<br />
“namaste,” where hands are put together<br />
with forearms forming an inverted V. He<br />
adds that the shape “also provides stability.”<br />
The 129-m-tall towers have a curving<br />
profile, which makes them even more<br />
human-like. The bridges have two fourlegged<br />
pylons. The legs are inclined toward<br />
one another above the bridge deck<br />
until they merge into a single tower head<br />
at 98 m.<br />
To cast the inclined upper tower legs,<br />
HCC worked with automatic climbing<br />
formwork experts from Doka to custom-<br />
Tower Head. Anchorage boxes were<br />
fabricated on-site to close tolerances and<br />
assembled in sections, with care for the exit<br />
angle of the guide pipes for the stay cables.<br />
Western Freeway Gets Sea Link<br />
South Mumbai<br />
Mahim Bay<br />
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PHOTO LEFT AND INSET BOTTOM BY JANICE L. TUCHMAN FOR ENR; PHOTO RIGHT AND BOTTOM COURTESY OF HCC<br />
ize a system for the job that could be<br />
adapted to the varying cross sections and<br />
angles of inclination. It has several different<br />
platform levels, allowing rebar to be<br />
placed a casting section ahead of the pouring<br />
operation. Merging the legs into the<br />
tower head took extra attention “to keep<br />
the forms from colliding with one another,”<br />
Sharma adds, and to reconfigure<br />
the climbers to the new cross section. The<br />
forms also had to produce the pylons’<br />
fluted architectural finish and be stripped<br />
without damaging it. Anchorage boxes<br />
THE BANDRA-WORLI LINK<br />
shortens the journey from<br />
Lovegrove Junction to Mahim<br />
Junction in Mumbai.<br />
Before After<br />
Distance (in km) 7.7 4.7<br />
Traffic signals 23 4<br />
Travel time (in minutes):<br />
Morning peak 35 6<br />
were fabricated on-site in halves with tolerance<br />
on the main plates of only 0.125<br />
degrees. The assembled units were transported<br />
and installed atop the towers.<br />
The pylon legs converge again below<br />
the bridge deck in one plane, creating a<br />
diamond cross section; installing the 140-<br />
ton precast segments for these lower legs<br />
was particularly tricky. HCC devised a<br />
construction method that used a pier table<br />
so workers could lift segments from bobbing<br />
barges in rough water and set them<br />
with 5-millimeter tolerances. The system<br />
Evening peak 38 6 Bandra Cable-Stayed Span<br />
600 m<br />
Worli<br />
Total Project<br />
Length<br />
4.70 km<br />
350 m<br />
Worli Cable-Stayed Span<br />
used a lifting boom to pick up a segment<br />
inside a steel frame. Pins were fixed below<br />
the segment, allowing workers to slide it<br />
out onto a trolley and transfer it into position.<br />
“It took us four months to test the<br />
prototype.” Rai says.<br />
The cable-stayed deck sections were<br />
built using the balanced-cantilever<br />
method. The central pier supports spans<br />
on either side. VSL Singapore Pte. Ltd.<br />
partnered with HCC early in the job to<br />
design the launching truss, able to carry<br />
precast box girders that weigh up to 2,000<br />
Pylon Height<br />
Pylons have four legs, each<br />
inclined at a 10° angle and<br />
merging at a height of 98 m<br />
126 m<br />
Bandra<br />
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Cover Story Bridges<br />
PHOTOS LEFT COURTESY OF HCC; PHOTO RIGHT BY JANICE L. TUCHMAN FOR ENR<br />
Mighty Seas. The Asian<br />
Hercules, a barge-mounted<br />
crane, moved the 1,200-<br />
tonne launching girders<br />
(top) across the Bandra<br />
channel during favorable<br />
high tides. To install the<br />
140-tonne precast segments<br />
for the lower legs,<br />
HCC used a pier table so<br />
workers could lift segments<br />
from bobbing barges in<br />
rough water and set them<br />
in place within 5 mm tolerances<br />
(above). HCC worked<br />
with automatic climbingform<br />
experts from Doka to<br />
customize a system to cast<br />
the varying cross sections<br />
and angles of inclination<br />
for the upper legs of the<br />
pylons (right). A precast<br />
segmental approach bridge,<br />
800 m long, on the Bandra<br />
side leads to north Mumbai<br />
(far right).<br />
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tonnes. One of the bigger challenges was<br />
moving the launching truss across the<br />
Bandra channel for the second span. This<br />
was done during a favorable high tide using<br />
a barge-mounted crane called the<br />
Asian Hercules, brought in from Singapore,<br />
which can lift up to 1,600 tonnes.<br />
Second Link<br />
The second phase of the Western Freeway<br />
Sea Link is expected to start only after<br />
India’s general elections in mid-May.<br />
Called the Worli-Haji Ali Sea Link Project,<br />
it will be a continuation of the existing<br />
sea link. The extension will involve a<br />
3.2-km-long precast segmental viaduct<br />
with 50 m spans, connecting Worli and<br />
Haji Ali.<br />
At Worli, connectors in a cloverleaf<br />
formation over the sea will facilitate access<br />
to and from the bridge. The sea-link extension<br />
will have a bored-pile foundation<br />
and precast segmental superstructure.<br />
“No large spans are envisaged for this<br />
project,” says Sharma.<br />
The second phase will be let as a buildoperate-transfer<br />
project, and bids have<br />
been received from only two bidders:<br />
HCC and Reliance Infrastructure. Reliance,<br />
whose bid is expected to be significantly<br />
lower, already is the contractor on<br />
a section of the Mumbai metro. The Haji-<br />
Ali link is expected to take 42 months<br />
from start of construction. The winner of<br />
the concession will pay Maharashtra State<br />
Road Development Corp. $327 million<br />
toward the cost of all five work packages<br />
of the overall sea-link project. The concession<br />
period is 40 years, and tolls will be<br />
collected to recover the cost of acquiring<br />
the first phase and the construction of the<br />
second.<br />
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link Project<br />
and later phases of the Western Freeway<br />
have the potential to bring about enduring<br />
changes in the travel patterns of the<br />
area, linking the island city of Mumbai to<br />
its western suburbs. A third phase is also<br />
planned to take the sea link across Back<br />
Bay to Nariman Point. But that area’s<br />
prominent hotels and famous views have<br />
prompted MSRDC to study a combination<br />
bridge-and-tunnel option. <br />
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Pulse<br />
Planning<br />
MICHIGAN The City of Allen Park<br />
announced that a $146-million film and<br />
television production studio is to be built<br />
in Allen Park. The 750,000-sq-ft Unity<br />
Studios complex will include four<br />
24,000-sq-ft soundstages and four<br />
11,000-sq-ft soundstages. It will be situated<br />
on 104 acres located at the intersection<br />
of Southfield Rd. and Enterprise Dr.<br />
The first phase of construction is to begin<br />
in May will encompass 40-acres of the<br />
site. City of Allen Park, 16850 Southfield<br />
Rd., Allen Park 48101.<br />
Bids/Contracts/Proposals<br />
HAWAII Design Partners Inc. has been<br />
awarded a $7-million firm-fixed-price,<br />
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity<br />
architect-engineering contract for various<br />
Navy and Marine Corps facilities within<br />
the Naval Facilities and <strong>Engineering</strong><br />
Command Hawaii area. The contract<br />
covers preparation of plans, specifications,<br />
cost estimates and design analysis. Work<br />
also covers preparation of design-build<br />
request-for-proposal contract documents,<br />
field investigation, engineering and geotechnical<br />
studies. Design Partners, Inc.<br />
1580 Makaloa St. Suite 1100, Honolulu,<br />
96814.<br />
KENTUCKY Burns & McDonnell was<br />
awarded a contract by East Kentucky<br />
Power Cooperative to provide preliminary<br />
engineering and detailed design<br />
startup services for a $324-million project<br />
to install new clean air equipment at the<br />
325-MW John Sherman Cooper powerplant<br />
in Pulaski County. Unit 2 at the<br />
powerplant will undergo a retrofit with<br />
the installation of a dry flue-gas-desulfurization<br />
unit, featuring a circulating fluidized-bed<br />
scrubber. Selective catalytic<br />
reduction equipment will also be installed.<br />
<strong>Engineering</strong> design work has begun, with<br />
construction expected to begin in spring<br />
2010 for completion by 2012. Burns &<br />
McDonnell <strong>Engineering</strong> Co. Inc., 9400<br />
Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Mo. 64114-<br />
3319. DR# 08-00891514.<br />
26 ENR April 27, 2009 enr.com<br />
LOUISIANA Wilco Pipeline Contractors<br />
was awarded a $9.5-million contract<br />
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for<br />
the construction of a pipeline in Cameron<br />
Parish. The permanent pipeline will carry<br />
dredged material from the Calcasieu River<br />
Ship Channel to the marshes of Cameron<br />
and Calcasieu parishes. The pipeline is<br />
only one component of the 907-acre Sabine<br />
Marsh Creation Project, which seeks<br />
to create a new marsh in the Sabine Wildlife<br />
Refuge using materials dredged from<br />
the Calcasieu River Ship Channel. It is<br />
one of four marshes to be created under<br />
the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection<br />
and Restoration Act. Two of the<br />
marshes are already complete. Completion<br />
of the pipeline is set for April 2010.<br />
Wilco Pipeline Contractors, 402 Service<br />
Rd., Rayne 70578.<br />
MARYLAND Forrester <strong>Construction</strong><br />
Co. has been awarded a $14-million design-build<br />
contract for the complete restoration<br />
and modernization of an athletic<br />
building at the U.S. Naval Academy in<br />
Annapolis. Building 260, also know as<br />
Hubbard Hall, is home to the U.S. Naval<br />
Academy’s crew teams. Work on the<br />
three-story boathouse includes hazardous<br />
material abatement, repair of deteriorated<br />
foundation pilings and the existing wharf,<br />
interior reorganization, repairs to the<br />
building structure and enclosure and the<br />
replacement of all HVAC systems. A temporary<br />
tension-fabric boat-storage shed<br />
will be erected for the duration of the<br />
project. Related work includes utilities,<br />
paving, curbs and gutters, parking, storm<br />
drainage, landscaping and site improvement.<br />
The project is expected to be complete<br />
by January 2010. Forrester <strong>Construction</strong>.<br />
Co. 12231 Parklawn Dr.,<br />
Rockville, 20852. DR# 09-00402741.<br />
MARYLAND Clark <strong>Construction</strong> Co.<br />
has been selected as general contractor for<br />
the $51-million Rockville Science Center<br />
at Montgomery College, Rockville<br />
Campus. The four-story, 140,000-sq-ft<br />
structural-steel building will be integrated<br />
with the college’s existing Science East<br />
building. The building will have classrooms,<br />
offices and laboratory space for<br />
biology, chemistry, physics and engineering<br />
programs. The building will also have<br />
a greenhouse and an a rooftop observatory.<br />
The project intends to seek LEED<br />
Gold certification, and will include photovoltaic<br />
panels and a green roof. The<br />
contract also covers the renovation and<br />
expansion of the campus’ stormwatermanagement<br />
facility. <strong>Construction</strong> is expected<br />
to begin later this year, with completion<br />
estimated for spring 2011. Clark<br />
<strong>Construction</strong> Group, 7500 Old Georgetown<br />
Rd. Bethesda, 20814. DR# 02-<br />
00854662.<br />
TEXAS Texas Sterling <strong>Construction</strong><br />
Co., a subsidiary of Sterling <strong>Construction</strong><br />
Co., was selected by the City of San Antonio<br />
to provide construction management-at-risk<br />
services on a $25-million<br />
road-widening project. Bulverde Rd. will<br />
be widening from four to six lanes from<br />
Loop 1604 to Evans Rd. Work consists of<br />
design consultation and construction<br />
management of the roadway improvements.<br />
Texas Sterling <strong>Construction</strong> Co.<br />
2819 Woodcliffe St. Suite 203, San Antonio,<br />
78230-5143. DR# 07-00732900.<br />
Bid/Proposal Dates<br />
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5/1<br />
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission,<br />
1629 K St. NW Suite 801, Washington,<br />
D.C. 20006-1670, National<br />
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. The<br />
memorial, designed by Frank Gehry of<br />
Gehry Partners, will be located on a fouracre<br />
site at the intersection of Maryland<br />
Ave. and Independence Ave. in Washington<br />
D.C., spanning two blocks from 4th<br />
St. to 6th St. The memorial will have a<br />
plaza-type layout with a partial canopy.<br />
Work also includes construction of a<br />
2,500-sq-ft support building for the memorial.<br />
The design also calls for a significant<br />
electronic component to the memorial.<br />
Project is currently estimated to cost<br />
between $55 million and $65 million.<br />
Gehry Partners, 12541 Beatrice St., Los<br />
Angeles, Calif. 90066-7001. DR# 08-<br />
00787216.
ILLINOIS 5/1 U.S. Army Corps of<br />
Engineers, Chicago District, 111 N. Canal<br />
St. Chicago, 60606-7206, Chicagoland<br />
underflow plan and redesign. The<br />
project calls for heavy civil work to be<br />
performed on the waterways serving the<br />
greater Chicago metropolitan area in<br />
Cook County. Specific civil work includes<br />
site preparation, excavation, grading,<br />
slope-shaping, geotextile placement, rock<br />
placement and removal and earth fill and<br />
compaction. Project also includes the installation<br />
of retaining walls, erosion and<br />
seepage control measures, roadway repairs,<br />
drainage installation and stormwater<br />
pollution-prevention planning. Project<br />
is currently estimated at $25 million.<br />
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago<br />
District, 111 N. Canal St., Chicago,<br />
60606-7206. DR# 09-00481527.<br />
WASHINGTON 5/4 City of Spokane<br />
Purchasing, 808 West Spokane Falls<br />
Blvd., Spokane 99201-3333, bridge demolition<br />
and reconstruction. Both the<br />
northbound and southbound structures<br />
of the Freya Street Bridge on Springfield<br />
Ave. in Spokane are to be demolished and<br />
a replacement span is to built in their<br />
place. The 71-ft wide, 300-ft-long concrete<br />
bridge will serve as the new link.<br />
Civil work includes approximately 7,000<br />
cu yd of excavation and embankment,<br />
2,000 sq ft of retaining walls and 18,000<br />
sq ft of structural earth walls. Related<br />
work includes 1,200 ft of storm sewer, 22<br />
drainage structures, sidewalk construction,<br />
11-in.-thick concrete pavement, as<br />
well as necessary utility adjustments and<br />
relocations. The project is currently estimated<br />
at between $9 million and $10 million.<br />
City of Spokane Purchasing, 808<br />
West Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane<br />
99201-3333. DR# 09-00500175.<br />
NEW YORK 5/5 New York State<br />
Dormitory Authority Contracts, 515<br />
Broadway, Albany, 12207-2916, hospital<br />
patient pavilion. Phase 3 of the Harlem<br />
Hospital Center on Lenox Ave. in New<br />
York City calls for the construction of a<br />
new six-story, 150,000-sq-ft patient pavilion.<br />
The building will provide more space<br />
for the hospital’s emergency department,<br />
diagnostic center and surgery department.<br />
It will feature 32 intensive-care beds along<br />
with integration of emergency, inpatient<br />
and outpatient services. Contracts available<br />
currently cover demolition and asbestos<br />
abatement work on the project,<br />
with contracts for general contractor and<br />
electrical-plumbing-HVAC to be awarded<br />
May 20.Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum<br />
(HOK), 620 Ave. of the Americas, New<br />
York City, 10011-4609. DR# 05-<br />
00631045.<br />
NEW YORK 5/5 Port Authority of<br />
New York and New Jersey, 3 Gateway<br />
Center, Suite 3, Newark, N.J. 07102-<br />
4000, bridge rehabilitation. The contract<br />
covers steel and concrete rehabilitation<br />
and repairs on the George Washington<br />
Bridge in New York. Work covers the repairs<br />
and replacement of corroded steel<br />
and spalled concrete throughout the span<br />
and its facilities, which includes the replacement<br />
of missing rivets with highstrength<br />
bolts. Contract valuation is currently<br />
estimated at between $5 million<br />
and $10 million. Port Authority of New<br />
York and New Jersey, 3 Gateway Center,<br />
Suite 3, Newark, N.J. 07102-4000.<br />
DR# 09-00466278.<br />
OHIO 5/6 Ohio Dept. of Transportation,<br />
Office Contracts, 1980 W Broad St.<br />
Floor 1, Columbus, 43223-1102, highway<br />
construction. The new four-lane segment<br />
of U.S. Highway 24 will have a new interchange<br />
at State Route 295 and will involve<br />
the construction of overpasses at County<br />
Route 109 and Jeffers Rd. in Lucas<br />
County. Work will include embankments,<br />
guardrails, erosion control, drainage, paving,<br />
cofferdams, bridge repair and related<br />
work. Project estimated at $72-million.<br />
Ohio Dept. of Transportation, Office<br />
Contracts, 1980 W Broad St. Floor 1,<br />
Columbus, 43223-1102. DR# 08-<br />
00656757.<br />
Much information for Pulse is derived from <strong>McGraw</strong>-<strong>Hill</strong><br />
<strong>Construction</strong> Dodge. For more information on a project in<br />
Pulse that has a DR#, or for general information on Dodge<br />
products and services, please call 1-800-393-6343 or<br />
visit our Website at www.dodge.construction.com.<br />
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American Recovery And<br />
Reinvestment Act Project<br />
Amtrak Request for General<br />
Contractor Qualification Information<br />
Replacement of Existing River Road<br />
Railroad Bridge, Madison, CT<br />
Introduction: Amtrak intends to accept Letters of<br />
Interest (LOI) for this solicitation which is an<br />
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Project.<br />
Responses are to include qualification information<br />
that is requested/stated below. Amtrak, at its sole<br />
discretion and without discussion, will determine<br />
which firms are to be added to its bid list. Only<br />
interested Contractors that can meet the<br />
minimum qualifications listed below should<br />
e-mail a Letter of Interest on company letterhead<br />
indicating the qualifications stated below to:<br />
Michael <strong>McGraw</strong>, Senior Contracting Agent<br />
Amtrak/National Railroad Passenger Corporation<br />
E-mail: mcgrawm@amtrak.com<br />
Description: Amtrak proposes to replace an<br />
existing double track two span structure over River<br />
Road and Hammonasset River. The bridge to be<br />
replaced is located on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor<br />
Main Line at Milepost 94.83 in Madison,<br />
Connecticut. The bridge carries both passenger<br />
and freight rail traffic on two tracks with an<br />
overhead electrified catenary system (OCS). The<br />
scope of work includes replacement of the existing<br />
superstructure and ballast deck with a new<br />
superstructure and concrete ballast decks, utility<br />
relocations/protection, grouting and repointing the<br />
abutments and pier, removal of the existing spans,<br />
and maintenance and protection of railroad traffic.<br />
All work will be performed on the railroad during<br />
Amtrak determined track outages.<br />
The construction is to be complete<br />
by February 17, 2011.<br />
Qualification: Qualification will be based on<br />
demonstration of:<br />
• Comparable GC project experience with<br />
$2M-5M projects<br />
• Qualified list of experienced construction<br />
personnel<br />
• Approved QA/QC program<br />
• Relative experience in railroad bridge<br />
construction<br />
• Financial resources/capability<br />
• Qualified safety program and proven<br />
safety record<br />
• Minimum 5 years relevant railroad<br />
environment work experience<br />
Please limit letters with brief narratives<br />
addressing the above qualifications to no more<br />
than seven (7) pages + cover letter.<br />
Letters of Interest and accompanying<br />
correspondence must be received at Amtrak by<br />
close of business (5:00 PM EDT) Thursday, May 7,<br />
2009. It is anticipated that a Bid Solicitation will be<br />
issued during the second quarter of 2009 and that a<br />
contract will be awarded in the third quarter of 2009.<br />
Important note: The information contained herein<br />
may not be reissued or redistributed in any form or<br />
manner in whole or in part without the advanced<br />
expressed written consent and permission of Amtrak.
Viewpoint<br />
Management By Perry Daneshgari<br />
Productivity Is Key<br />
To Profitability<br />
Recently, Lean <strong>Construction</strong> has been celebrated as the new fad<br />
among construction-management gurus. In reality, it is not the<br />
leanness of the construction that matters but rather its agility<br />
and responsiveness to change. That is why the National Institute of<br />
Standards and Technology and ASTM International are working on draft<br />
productivity protocols that support<br />
a new process called Agile <strong>Construction</strong>.<br />
One of the most misunderstood<br />
concepts in the construction industry<br />
is the difference between profitability<br />
and cash flow. Due to the<br />
nature of accounting principles used<br />
to manage company profitability,<br />
most measurements of job<br />
progress really are measurements<br />
of production,<br />
not productivity. This distinction<br />
has a direct impact<br />
on the cash flow of<br />
both the project and the<br />
company. Recognition of<br />
the distinction between production<br />
and productivity will help contractors<br />
become much more agile in<br />
their responses to a jobsite’s changing<br />
needs.<br />
Much of the distinction is based<br />
on tax law. In the Tax Reform Act<br />
of 1986, construction law was<br />
changed to help contractors better<br />
manage their financial assets and<br />
cash flow through progress billings.<br />
Previously, revenue was recognized<br />
only at project completion, which<br />
caused cash-flow problems and essentially<br />
forced contractors to subsidize<br />
most of the work, leading in<br />
many cases to bankruptcy.<br />
Further tax legislation promulgated<br />
via the Technical and Miscellaneous<br />
Revenue Act (TAMRA) of<br />
1988 enabled contractors to process<br />
bills based on either a cost basis,<br />
DANESHGARI<br />
unit price or observed percent age<br />
of completion. Due to the lack of<br />
objective methodology, progress<br />
billing is most often cost-based. According<br />
to the <strong>Construction</strong> Financial<br />
Management Association’s 2007<br />
annual report, up to 89% of all contractors<br />
in the U.S. base their billings<br />
on cost. This method leaves<br />
much to be desired.<br />
In Agile <strong>Construction</strong>, a tracking<br />
system that is driven by jobsite<br />
dynamics and compatible with<br />
building information modeling<br />
(BIM) systems supports progress<br />
billing based on actual construction<br />
put-in-place (CPIP). Until recently,<br />
CPIP measurement was not easily<br />
achievable, but a new methodology<br />
called Job Productivity Measurement<br />
(JPM), based on the application<br />
of statistical process control, is<br />
now available and being used as the<br />
basis for the developing ASTM<br />
standard.<br />
Agile <strong>Construction</strong> recognizes<br />
the bottom-line impact of three<br />
sources of cost drivers: money,<br />
materials and manpower. Visible<br />
means of measuring job progress,<br />
labor productivity, profitability,<br />
cash flow and materials handling<br />
enable an Agile <strong>Construction</strong> company<br />
to effectively apply BIM as<br />
part of its daily project operations.<br />
Responsiveness to the changing<br />
jobsite environment is the key to<br />
profitability for any contractor.<br />
Profitability results from operating<br />
as a low-cost provider. But to be a<br />
low-cost provider, contractors need<br />
to know the situation, its cost drivers<br />
and its productivity. To manage<br />
profits, the costs need to be visible.<br />
Correct allocation of a contractor’s<br />
fixed costs to the customer, project,<br />
subcontractors and resources will<br />
allow the contractor to be more<br />
agile and profitable.<br />
Contractors that apply daily or<br />
weekly agile job tracking will be<br />
able to improve their cash flow and<br />
profitability. Since TAMRA allows<br />
contractors to bill the larger of the<br />
recognized revenue based on cost<br />
or observed percentage of completion,<br />
contractors are able to better<br />
manage their cash flow by connecting<br />
the CPIP measurements to the<br />
project.<br />
Managing projects based just on<br />
costs results in unpredictable outcomes.<br />
Contractors often have to<br />
wait until the end of the job to find<br />
out whether expected profits will be<br />
earned. As a result, using accounting<br />
data without really knowing<br />
project productivity does little to<br />
help contractors improve their cash<br />
flow and profitability. Billing based<br />
only on costs leaves productivity on<br />
the table. Correctly measuring the<br />
job allows the contractor to switch<br />
from using only the rearview mirror<br />
of cost accounting to using the<br />
rearview mirror in conjunction with<br />
the full front view through the<br />
windshield of JPM.<br />
The bottom line is that the only<br />
useful measurement of productivity<br />
is the one that will allow instantaneous<br />
correction in the field, hence<br />
the development of JPM for ASTM<br />
as a standard practice. <br />
Perry Daneshgari is president and<br />
CEO of MCA Inc. Flint, Mich. He can<br />
be reached at perry@mca.net or 810-<br />
232-9797<br />
If you have an idea for a column, please<br />
contact Viewpoint editor William J. Angelo<br />
at william_angelo@mcgraw-hill.com<br />
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