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Work Advances on UA Tucson’s $107.5M Bioscience Building By Chuck Harvey CEG CORRESPONDENT
A 150,200-sq.-ft. building designed to advance bioscience research — including study of health, aging and disease at the molecular level — is being constructed on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson. The building will provide research facilities to support interdisciplinary research in many health science disciplines. Known as the Bioscience Research Laboratories, construction of the $107.5million facility began in December 2015 and is expected to conclude in December of this year. The project is moving along on schedule and at budget. The new building is located at 1230 North Cherry Ave., adjacent to the Keating Bio5 and Medical Research buildings at the west end of the research complex, which is part of the University of Arizona’s North Campus District. The bioscience building stands four sto-
Replacement Hospital. The University of Arizona Bioscience Research Laboratories project has 50 subcontractors including JB Steel of Tucson. About 295 workers are on the job each day at the construction site. Work on the new building required 17,500 cu. yds. of concrete and 1,431 tons of steel rebar. Dirt was brought in for building the base of the new structure.
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A 150,200-sq.-ft. building designed to advance bioscience research is being constructed on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
ries tall and includes a basement. Architect for the project is Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP of Portland, Ore., with Debra Johnson as project manager. DPR Construction Inc. of Phoenix is
prime contractor. On one of the company’s other recent Arizona projects, a joint-venture was formed with Sundt Construction Co. of Tucson to construct a $306 million Banner University Medical Center Tucson
Walls Up on New Building Work on the building exterior envelope is under way and glass is installed. Crews are moving forward with installation of mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems on all levels of the building. The air handler installation on the roof is complete. The basement lid received a waterproof coating and outdoor landscaping has begun. Indoor sheetrock and panting have begun on the lower levels. see RESEARCH page 6
ADOT’s Construction Academy Provides Gateway to Careers Thirty-one individuals seeking a hand up obtained entrylevel positions as flaggers on construction projects, paying $13 to $19 per hour, due to free training provided by the Arizona Department of Transportation. Those who took part in the flagger-certification program held this summer are the latest cohort in the Construction Academy Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program offered by ADOT’s On-The-Job-Training Supportive Services Program, part of the agency’s Business Engagement and Compliance Office. Many of the recent trainees starting off as flaggers will move on to construction apprenticeships and later reach journeyman status as ADOT provides continuing support and guidance. Flagger certification is just one of the training opportunities available to women, minorities and members of economically disadvantaged groups, including those who are out of work, through ADOT programs funded by the Federal Highway Administration. Individuals also can
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Thirty-one individuals seeking a hand up obtained entry-level positions as flaggers on construction projects, paying $13 to $19 per hour, due to free training provided by the Arizona Department of Transportation.
receive training that will help them become concrete finishers, block masons, highway surveyors, heavy equipment operators and commercial drivers.
ADOT’s goal in sponsoring this training: removing barriers to beginning construction careers. ADOT-sponsored Construction Academies also are offered through Gila Community College, Gateway Community College and, starting this fall, Pima Community College and Pima County Joint Technology Education School District. ADOT covers training costs and fees for participants and provides support including transportation and child care assistance, job-readiness training and safety gear such as hard hats and protective eyewear. This past spring, for example, all 18 Construction Academy participants at Gila Community College landed jobs. They completed a 16-week program that included highway flagger certification, training in carpentry and jobseeking strategies, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration instruction on job-related safety and health hazards. see ADOT page 7
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Northern Vertex Updates Part of Pecos Road Closing Activities at Moss Gold Mine for South Mountain Freeway Northern Vertex Mining Corp. presents the following update on construction activities at its 100 percent owned Moss Mine project located near Bullhead City, Ariz. Kenneth Berry, president and CEO, stated: “Under the guidance of Dr. David Stone, project manager; Joseph Bardswich, P.Eng, president, Golden Vertex; M3 Engineering; Golder and Associates; and N.A. Degerstorm, we continue to achieve considerable progress at the Moss Gold/Silver Mine and significantly de-risk the project both technically and financially. Additional, key contracts recently awarded demonstrate the ongoing progress toward our goal of pouring gold in Q4, 2017.” Key Contracts Recently Executed: • Concrete contract was awarded to Great Basin Industrial of Kaysville, Utah; • Heap leach civil works was awarded to N.A. Degerstrom of Spokane, Wash.; • Heap leach and pond liner installations awarded to American Environmental Group of Richfield, Ohio; • Heap leach and pond liners have been purchased from Agru America of Fernley, Nev.; • Diesel generators have been purchased from Empire Cat of Mesa, Ariz.; and • Overland conveyor, grasshopper conveyors and radial stacker purchased Superior Industries of Prescott, Ariz.
Civil Works Complete The project site has seen a significant transformation in the past few months with the completion of the site civil works for the crusher pad, ROM pad, laydown yard, Merrill Crowe facility, and ancillary roads. This work was performed by N.A. Degerstrom of Spokane, Wash. Concrete Work The concrete works encompass the Merrill Crowe and Refinery facilities, the crusher foundations and the diesel power station. Heap Leach Civil Works The heap leach earthworks commenced in early June and clearing and grubbing operations in the leach pad are well under way. Excavation and fill for grading in the West Event pond is essentially complete and this area is ready to receive liners. Liners Installation Lining of the West Event pond is expected
to commence in early July when the first liner shipments are received. Portions of the heap leach pad were ready for lining in midThe city of Phoenix opened its Chandler July. The current schedule shows completion Boulevard extension between 27th and 19th of the leach pad and pond liners by early Avenues on July 28. Due to the opening, September. Pecos Road west of 17th Avenue will close permanently for construction of the Loop Crushing Plant Fabrication, 202 South Mountain Freeway. Delivery Confirmed Westbound Pecos Road traffic will divert The company also reports that Goodfellow Crushers and their partners north at 17th Avenue, and the Chandler KPI/JCI are making excellent progress on Boulevard extension will provide access to the fabrication of the Moss crushing plant. and from the Foothills Reserve Community, The initial plant components were scheduled which motorists now reach via Pecos Road. for delivery in mid-July, with the final comCrews will remove the existing pavement ponents on site by mid-August. on Pecos Road, clear and remove trees, brush and rubbish and install drainage pipes Powerline, Access Road ROW so that freeway construction can occur on the Progress one-mile stretch between South Chandler Two Right of Way (ROW) permit appli- Boulevard and 17th Avenue. cations were submitted to the BLM for conSouth Chandler Boulevard also will be struction of a power-line partially on federal closing permanently south of Cottonwood lands, and for eliminating vertical and hori- Lane. zontal curves and blind spots on the Moss Mine Access Road by widening onto adjacent federal lands. The applications will be reviewed by the BLM team and items of environmental concern will be identified and then assessed for potential impacts. The major factors driving the applications are the elimination of diesel emissions to the atmosphere from on-site generators, and the increase in traffic safety for persons using the public County Access Road. NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) A Tucson conThe applications were supported by a pre- struction company is being paid $300,000 to liminary power-line design by Amec Foster do emergency repairs on an international Wheeler, Phoenix, Ariz., office and complet- sewage line that carries untreated sewage ed road reconstruction plans by Civil Works from Mexico into Arizona. Engineering LLC of Kingman, Ariz. The The flow of untreated wastewater has Mohave County Engineering Department been pouring into a southern Arizona wash has approved the road re-construction plans from a partial break in the international and both city and county engineering have sewage line. approved in principle the powerline design The partial breach was detected July 25 in concept. a sparsely populated area north of Rio Rico, Ariz. Sale of Waste Rock Authorities believe the break occurred The sale of mine waste rock for use as because of excessive rainwater that put too concrete aggregates has commenced in partmuch pressure on the pipe. nership with Tri-R Construction of Mohave The pipeline, also known as the Valley, Ariz. At present Tri-R is hauling 500 International Outfall Interceptor, carries tons per day to a local concrete supplier, and wastewater from Nogales, Ariz., and the demand is growing for use as riprap and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, to a treatment other commercial uses. For more information, visit northernver- plant in Rio Rico. The wastewater has tested positive for tex.com. (This story also can be found on excessive levels of E. coli., Santa Cruz Construction Equipment Guide’s website at County officials said. www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared a
Pecos Road east of 17th Avenue will remain open during South Mountain Freeway construction until the final stages of the project, when local traffic will shift to the new freeway lanes. The South Mountain Freeway, which is scheduled to open by late 2019, will provide a long-planned direct link between the East Valley and West Valley and a much-needed alternative to Interstate 10 through downtown Phoenix. Approved by Maricopa County voters in 1985 and again in 2004 as part of a comprehensive regional transportation plan, it will complete the Loop 202 and Loop 101 freeway system. For more information, visit SouthMountainFreeway.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Tucson Company Repairs International Sewage Line state of emergency and allocated $200,000 to help with repair management. The city of Nogales, which also declared a state of emergency, said the estimated cost of repairs is $5 million. The first repairs will include building a cofferdam, which is a watertight enclosure pumped dry to permit construction below the waterline, officials with the U.S. Section of International Boundary and Water Commission said. An inspection of the sewer pipe will follow to determine what repairs are needed. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will assist with the rebuilding an eroded bank in an unlined portion of the Nogales Wash. Meanwhile, authorities in nearby Pinal County are warning ranchers and farmers not to use water from the Santa Cruz River for their crops and cattle until the E. coli situation is resolved. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Got Dirt? New PIRTEK Owner Paula Meyer to Earthmoving Role Focus on Expanding Tucson Market in Building SMF PIRTEK, a fluid transfer solutions company, has a new owner operating its PIRTEK Palo Verde location in Tucson. Paula Meyer acquired the franchise in May. Meyer’s story is of the “silver lining” variety. After working for a prominent credit card company for 18 years, she lost her job to corporate downsizing. But when Meyer was laid off from that position, she immediately began looking at other options. Her thoughts returned to a business she had considered in the past: PIRTEK. “I was sitting around thinking about what my next step would be,” Meyer said. “I had thought about PIRTEK before. But the time wasn’t right then because I already had a job. After the layoff, I thought it was a good time to look at it.” The only franchise of its kind in the United States, PIRTEK provides hydraulic and industrial hose replacement sales and services. There are 70 PIRTEK franchises and a fleet of mobile service vehicles throughout the United States. Globally, PIRTEK has more than 400 locations and 2,000 mobile service vehicles in 23 countries. The service aspect is one of the main things that attracted Meyer to the franchise in the beginning. “I believe in the products and the vision. I like that it’s a service-based business,” she said. “I’ve always been very big on customer service.” Meyer said she will continue serving the service and supply center’s existing base — industrial, construction, rental, waste and recycling — but she also intends to pursue business with the region’s precious metals mines.
Building a freeway requires moving a lot of dirt, particularly for the roadway surface, and to build bridge and wall foundations, embankments and connecting ramps. For the 22-mi. Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, the largest-ever highway project in Arizona, crews will haul and compact about 10 million cu. yds. of earth, the equivalent of more than 800,000 truckloads and enough to fill University of Phoenix Stadium 13 times. “One of the most important parts of freeway construction is building the foundation, which requires large amounts of dirt material,” said Rob Samour, ADOT’s senior deputy state engineer for major projects. “Compacting this amount of dirt takes time, but it’s essential to ensure we’ll have a stable roadway for decades to come.” Some of this earthwork requires digging dirt out of areas such as the cross street at Desert Foothills Parkway to build an underpass or the existing I-10 (Papago Freeway) embankment to create access roads parallel to the freeway. Crews need to build up other sections, particularly where the freePaula Meyer way travels over local streets. During peak production, about “We plan to make the most of that opportunity,” she said. 50,000 cu. yds. of material will be moved daily for the projPIRTEK Palo Verde is located at 3455 S. Palo Verde ect. Road., Suite 117, Tucson, Ariz., 85713. About a tenth of the dirt will be imported, including loads For more information, visit pirtekusa.com. currently being hauled and delivered overnight along the (This story also can be found on Construction Pecos Road corridor to avoid traffic backups during the day. Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipBulldozers, rollers, scrapers and other pieces of heavy equipmentguide.com.) ment then move, build up and compact the dirt to create the highway’s foundation. At a project location adjacent to the Salt River in Laveen, the Arizona Department of Transportation and Connect 202 Partners, the developer responsible for building the freeway, will use 1.1 million cu. yds. of dirt to fill in a former sand and gravel pit. Before any digging can start, crews typically wet dirt to make it easier to move and help with compaction and dust from Contractors West Inc. of Mesa to passes to help State Troopers plan their control. Compacting the soil creates a solid base for the roadway, and wetting the dirt in advance makes this step easier. install the system. response. Crews will continue to place the dirt and compact it until Construction began in early August, While ADOT and the DPS react a month sooner than earlier project quickly to reports of wrong-way driv- they get it to the height needed for the future roadway. estimates. Installation and testing are ers, the response right now usually Once the earthwork is finished, it will be time to pave. expected to be completed by early next begins with 911 calls from other When it opens by late 2019, the South Mountain Freeway year. motorists. will provide a long-planned direct link between the East The system will use thermal camThe I-17 pilot system will speed Valley and West Valley and a much-needed alternative to eras to detect a wrong-way vehicle notification, but it can’t prevent wrong- Interstate 10 through downtown Phoenix as it runs east and along an off-ramp, triggering an illu- way driving, which in most cases west along Pecos Road and then north and south between minated wrong-way sign with flashing involves impaired drivers. ADOT and lights aimed at getting the attention of partner agencies, including DPS and 55th and 63rd avenues, connecting with I-10 on each end. Approved by Maricopa County voters in 1985 and again the driver. The system will immediate- the Governor’s Office of Highway in 2004 as part of a comprehensive regional transportation ly alert the Arizona Department of Safety, continue to study other potenPublic Safety and ADOT while warn- tial responses to reduce the risk from plan, the South Mountain Freeway will complete the Loop 202 and Loop 101 freeway system in the Valley. ing other freeway drivers in the area wrong-way driving. For more information, visit SouthMountainFreeway.com. through overhead message boards. On (This story also can be found on (This story also can be found on Construction the freeway, additional thermal cam- Construction Equipment Guide’s eras placed at one-mile intervals will website at www.constructionequip- Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipsignal when a wrong-way vehicle mentguide.com.) mentguide.com.)
Transportation Board OKs Contract for ADOT Wrong-Way Detection System Construction of a first-in-the-nation system to detect wrong-way vehicles and alert law enforcement and other drivers was scheduled to begin in early August following State Transportation Board approval of the contract for installation. At the direction of Gov. Doug Ducey, the Arizona Department of Transportation has accelerated the start of construction on the $3.7 million pilot project along 15 mi. of Interstate 17 in Phoenix. That includes pre-ordering materials, including thermal cameras that will detect wrong-way vehicles as well as poles and fiber-optic cable, rather than waiting for a contractor to secure those items. The State Transportation Board conditionally approved a $1.89 million bid
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New Building Will Help Advance Research on Tucson Campus RESEARCH from page 1
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Installation of roofing is complete at the penthouse with fireproofing starting. Installation of drywall on the first level has started with in-wall rough-in of utilities complete. Interior framing and overhead utilities are progressing on the second, third and fourth levels. Installation of ceiling grid and painting continues in the basement. Installation of brick masonry has started at the northeast elevation near the Medical Research Building. University of Arizona photo
Construction of the $107.5-million facility began in December 2015 and is expected to conclude in December of this year.
4,500 work hours, lifting tens of thousands of loads as the building went up.
Work on the new building required 17,500 cu. yds. of concrete and 1,431 tons of steel rebar. Dirt was brought in for building the base of the new structure.
Crews continue to install roofing. They also are installing bricks and parapets on the building exterior. Interior work includes installation of aluminum frames, windows and doors. The building will consist primarily of concrete, bricks and steel. The east face contains a large amount of glass. The west face has limited glazing and the windows on that side have shading from the façade to mitigate afternoon sun. Equipment on Site Crews used two cranes during certain portions of the work that have now been completed. The contractor opted for two smaller tower cranes instead of bringing in one large tower crane.
“It is interesting to note that the BSRL project is a long, narrow building and is surrounded by streets and other buildings,” said Lorna Gray, facilities project manager of University of Arizona planning, design and construction. “There is very little area to stage materials to be moved around. We elected to use two smaller cranes that could reach all areas of the building, instead of having one larger one. This had some economic benefit as well as increased crane projection and kept the cranes below the helicopter flight path for the adjacent hospital.” On April 15, the last of the two cranes was removed from the site. During their time onsite, operators of the two cranes logged in about
Building Will Serve Multiple Research Purposes The Bioscience Research Laboratories building consists of labs, new research, clinical research facilities and imaging space on its four floors and basement. Offices also comprise part of the building. The design of the Bioscience Research Laboratory was developed to provide both short- and long-term flexibility to help the university and the users keep pace with changing research programs and protocols. The top two floors of the building are designed as wet laboratory research areas, but can be flexibly interchanged with dry laboratory uses in increments of two principal investigator modules with minimal renovation and disruption to adjacent research activities. The imaging facilities in the basement have been designed to include a total of six imaging suites, including two small animal MRIs and four suites available to support a range of potential human and large animal imaging modalities. In addition, space has been provided for high resolution ultrasound, optical scan, autoradiography and micro CT, PE and PETCT imaging modalities.
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The bioscience building stands four stories tall and includes a basement.
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The building will provide research facilities to support interdisciplinary research in many health science disciplines.
The design supports the addition of large, complex equipment such as a cyclotron in the future. The new building also will contain a CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) genetics core facility and informatics. All facilities in the United States
that perform laboratory testing on human specimens for health assessment or the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease are regulated under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988. see RESEARCH page 7
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The new building is designed with energy efficiency in mind. “It is anticipated to be LEED silver certified,” Gray said. Outside the new building, the landscape design will create an oasislike courtyard for users and will integrate passive water harvesting to nourish desert trees and plants. Project Impacts Mabel St. east of Cherry Ave. will be closed for the duration of project. A plan is in place to maximize safety at the project site, while minimizing noise. But as with any major project, noise and dust are factors. The project is located in the University of Arizona Health Services Center, which is home to the colleges of pharmacy, medicine, nursing, public health and the Banner University Medical Center. Thousands of students, staff, faculty, patients and visitors are in the area each day. Some are in cars, some are on bikes and some are pedestrians walking alongside and just outside the project site. To further complicate matters, three other construction projects are under way in the same area. Coordination and communication are considered key in making sure everyone is safe and that the project can proceed without causing too much disruption to nearby campus operations. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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The project is moving along on schedule and at budget.
Participants in Pima Community College’s first Construction Academy will receive 10 weeks of similar training, while 30 students in the Pima County JTED Construction Academy’s construction and heavy equipment program will receive training that includes flagger certification. Meanwhile, a Commercial Driver License Construction Academy that ADOT offers in Phoenix and Tucson helps participants obtain Class A commercial driver licenses to land trucking jobs in the construction industry. The ADOT Business and Compliance Office Construction Project Management Academy, launching this fall, will provide training for participants in the On-The-Job-Training Supportive Services Program as well as to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. For more information, call 602/712-7761 or visit azdot.gov/BECO. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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