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Apartment Crews Work on Wet Ground in Close Quarters By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Sometimes, digging a foundation proceeds without any challenges whatsoever, but there are times when workers not only have to deal with a tight site in a downtown area, but also are confronted with a high water table. This is the case for Welty Building Company Ltd., the construction management company putting up The View on Pavey Square in downtown Columbus, Ohio, a $27 million mixed-use student housing development located on the city’s iconic High Street. The 183,000-sq.-ft. project features six historic homes along Pavey Square, and a main structure behind them in a lot that will contain a two-story concrete podium in the basement and main floor with four floors of residential wood structure. There will be 132 apartments and 6,587 sq. ft. of retail and office space, including a restaurant. While there will be some underground parking spots accessible via an entrance, the bulk of the parking is based on an automated stack parking system, which had been used in two previous View projects. The podium section also contains some mechanical rooms and administrative offices, but the footprint of the building is
The construction site is a confined space and involves the renovation of six historic homes nearby.
approximately 35,000 sq. ft. Work started on development — the renovation of the six homes is being handled by another contractor — in October 2017 and it will be completed either on April 30 or May 30. see APARTMENT page 2
With the skyline of Columbus in the background, a tower crane looms over the construction site of The View on Pavey Square.
Revised ODOT Training Rules Take Effect in New Year The Ohio Department of Transportation recently announced significant changes to the On-The-Job Training Program that took effect on Jan. 1, 2019. Because these changes will impact ongoing, multiyear projects as well as new ODOT projects that will begin construction in 2019, all Ohio contractors are advised to review and familiarize themselves with the new changes. The complete OJT Program manual is available on the ODOT website, www.dot.state.oh.us. The following is a brief summary of the major changes and how they will impact Ohio contractors in the years ahead.
First and foremost, the OJT Program will no longer be voluntary: Starting in 2019, the OJT Program will be mandatory for (1) “all contractors who entered into an FHWA funded highway construction contract with ODOT in that calendar year,” or (2) all contractors who “are working as a prime contractor on a multi-year contract with ODOT in that calendar year.” For calendar year 2019, the OJT goal for each such contractor is 7.6 percent. In some cases, ODOT may also establish project-specific OJT goals. To meet that 7.6 percent goal, contractors will be able to
count trainee hours from all projects in Ohio, including federal, state, and privately funded projects, rather than just the ODOT projects that trigger the contractor’s obligation to participate in the OJT Program. However, contractors must remember that only trainee hours in the “construction crafts” are counted toward the OJT Program requirements. Trainee hours in the “administrative or lower-level management positions such as office engineers, estimators or timekeepers” generally do not count toward OJT Program requirements unless explicitly permitted by a project-specific OJT goal. see ODOT page 4