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By Terra Battle
ew London, CT—The Amtrak Bridge Project celebrated a milestone of 105,000 safe hours this last September. Cianbro Corporation President Peter Vigue visited the site to congratulate the team on this success. Vice President Linc Denison affirmed the project’s efforts as “a tremendous accomplishment” and said, “it demonstrates the commitment the team has made to working safely.” This project consists of the addition of 2,400 cy of concrete to two piers that support the 200 foot tall lift span towers. The existing bascule span will be removed during a four day channel outage this spring and replaced with the new lift span that was erected in October. Steel Erection Superintendent Pete Fournier will be starting with pier three and then pier two and the tower steel is expected to be completed this spring. After the towers are complete, the focus during this season will transition to the lift spans. The crews have recently been split into day and night shifts that overlap for a time period each morning. Foreman Todd Hoffa, will supervise the night steel erection crew and Foreman Tod Parisek will oversee the preassembly for the day shift. Foreman Steve Trombley is in
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Steve Trombley, Matt Paulone and Dave Stoddard reviewing plans for the ladder access platforms
charge of the preassembly work on the ladder access platforms that were fabricated in our Cianbro Fabrication Facility. Foreman Dennis Morin has been supervising the rebar and post tensioning crews and Foreman Justin Shelton has been overseeing the concrete placement at piers two and three. Concrete placement was finished at the end of May and is almost complete at pier two. Approximately 2,350 cy of concrete have been placed to date. The grouting subcontractor completed work on pier two with approximately 625,000 gallons of cementitious grout in early June. Work at pier three was complete in October. An emergency power generator was installed for back up support to power the lift span. The electricians, lead by Electrical Superintendent Steve Dube, are currently
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installing conduit and lights in all the tower column legs. Working with Steve Dube last summer was Intern Jason Thomas, an Electrical Engineering major at the University of Connecticut. Team members on this project include Mark Arsenault, Joe Ballard,
Jonathan Beebe, Jodie Breton, Elizabeth Bridges, David Brooking, Dan Butler, Darren Bye, John Cartier, Kyle Chapman, John Clark, Keith Dawley, Robert Deelsnyder, Bob Drzewiecki, Jim Dupuis, Ed Everich, Pete Fournier, Greg Ginnelly, Matt Hebert, Todd Hoffa, Tom Houghtaling, Erik Ingelsby, Matt Ingram, Karl Jahn, Scott Kretser, Cory LaRock, Jim Marcella, Doug Moore, Dennis Morin, Tom Mucci, Chet Muckenhirn, Wilfredo Nieves, Wojciech Olak, Tod Parisek, Matt Paulone, William Ray, Danny Records, Chris Richards, Scot Richards, Toni Rodriguez, Jared Shelton, Justin Shelton, Dan Slopak, Freddy Spokas, David Stoddard, Jeremy Tourville, Steve Trombley, Jason Underwood, Scott Underwood, Chris Vane, Valerie Wilochka, Dana Woods, Mark Zagrobelny and Mike Ziolko.
✔ 171,560 Project Safe Hours