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After Bertha: WSDOT Updates SR 99 Progress in Seattle By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
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The precast concrete panels that will build the lower deck of Seattle’s new SR 99 double deck tunnel began arriving in early November, marking the beginning of an important stage of the tunnel construction, said Laura Newborn, spokeswoman of the project. Work on the lower deck will be markedly different from that on the upper deck, which has been under construction for some time and was more than halfway completed last spring when the tunneling machine known as Bertha finished mining for the tunnel in April. “The contractor, Seattle Tunnel Partners, is building the upper deck and most of the tunnel’s other interior structures using the ‘cast in place’ method,” Newborn said. The tunnel’s lower deck will be built with precast panels manufactured by Concrete Technology Corporation of Tacoma. Work on WSDOT photo
On Jan. 4, 2018, crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners set five girders that will support a lid over the SR 99 tunnel along with part of the north portal operations building and a new section of Sixth Avenue North. The concrete tube below the girders is the passage that connects the tunnel’s egress (emergency exit) corridor to the operations building.
Crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners are close to completing a 100-ft.-long section of the SR 99 tunnel in the pit where they disassembled the SR 99 tunneling machine.
creating the precast panels began in early 2017 and is finished. The panels must now be transported to Seattle and installed in the tunnel. The decision to use the precast panels was made to save time, said Chris Dixon, project manager of Seattle Tunnel Partners “Seattle Tunnel Partners designed this design/build project for the upper roadway to be castin-place and the lower roadway to be precast and then assembled. This allowed materials in and out of the tunnel as the tunneling machine Bertha continued to move forward and dig the SR 99 tunnel. The height of the road allowed
enough to both build the tunnel and build the roadway behind the tunneling machine.” The lower deck will be made up of 1,152 concrete panels. Each panel is 32 ft. wide — the full width of the two lanes plus shoulders — and roughly 8 ft. long. There are four types of panels, each serving a different role in the tunnel’s future northbound roadway. The panels are transported by flatbed truck from Tacoma. “Transporting 22-ton panels is inherently difficult,” Dixon said. “STP worked with the panel manufacturer to create a set of protocols used in transport of these pan-
els and conducts quality checks at every step of the process to make sure every panel installed in the tunnel meets rigorous quality standards. STP uses cranes inside and outside of the tunnel to lift the panel, and special vehicles called segment movers drive segments into the tunnel during mining and transport the panels between cranes.” Once the slabs are in place, crews will tighten them together, bolt them to the corbels, and later pour a layer of concrete atop the panels to create a smooth driving surface. Rather than starting at one end or the other, crews are saving time by starting in the middle, Newborn said. “Most of the tunnel’s interior structures and its mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems are being installed in a linear fashion, starting from the south,” she said. “The lower deck will take a different route. Crews will begin installing the lower roadway at a point about two-thirds of the way through the tunnel from the south [a spot roughly beneath Virginia Street and First Avenue]. From there, they will move south as they place the deck panels. “This starting point and direction of work is due to the spatial constraints involved in tunnel construction. During mining, a truck delivered tunnel ring segments to Bertha from the south. Building the lower deck would have blocked this delivery access.” Even after Bertha finished building the tunnel, crews still needed that vertical space for the moveable forms — known as the “red travelers” — used to build the see WSDOT page 8
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PacWest Machinery Promotes Sumner to Service Manager PacWest Machinery announced that Scott Sumner has been promoted to the position of service manager of the Oregon market. Sumner has more than 25 years in the construction industry, of which 14 of those years has been with the Volvo brand, most recently as a senior field service technician of PacWest. He will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the company’s service departments in Portland and Eugene, Ore. A native of Albuquerque N.M., Sumner has been in the heavy equipment industry since the beginning of his working career. “PacWest is growing rapidly in Washington, Oregon and northern Idaho,” said Sumner. “There is a great service team within each of our branches, and we are dedicated to giving customers the best possible support.” Tim Hurst, PacWest general manager of Oregon and southwest Washington, added “Scott has worked with a number of different OEM equipment suppliers in his career and has developed a wide base of knowledge. We are excited to have Scott in this position.” Sumner will be based in the recently opened Portland, Ore.,
The PacWest Machinery team welcomes its newest member. (L-R) are Tyson Gates, parts manager, Portland; Mike Stepan, sales representative; Tim Hurst, PacWest general manager of Oregon and southwest Washington; Scott Sumner, service manager of the Oregon market; Marty Krueger, sales representative; and Ed Kanable, sales representative.
branch of PacWest, a state-of-theart 22,000 sq.-ft. facility that sits on six acres which includes ten serv-
ice bays and an expanded parts warehouse. The new PacWest facility also supports an experi-
enced outside sales team dedicated to serving the company’s various markets. The sales team, including
their primary territories includes: • Ed Kanable — Washington, Clackamas and Yamhill counties, • Mike Stepan — Multnomah county and Southwest Washington • Tim Harman — Willamette Valley and coastal counties • Marty Krueger — government sales PacWest Machinery is one of the newest Volvo Construction Equipment dealers in North America with responsibility for the sales, rental and aftermarket support for the full line of Volvo’s general production equipment, road machinery and compact equipment. The company also sells and services machinery from Metso Minerals, Roadtec, GOMACO, Tymco, SDLG, Etnyre, Broce Brooms, FRD Furukawa and Genesis. PacWest Machinery provides equipment and services to customers from four branches located in Kent and Spokane, Wash. and in Portland and Eugene, Ore., plus additional support from an extensive mobile service fleet. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Seattle Remodels Arena to Attract NBA, NHL Franchises SEATTLE (AP) Seattle is moving forward with efforts to renovate the aging cityowned KeyArena into a premier venue that could be ready for an NBA or NHL team within three years. The Seattle City Council on Dec. 4, approved a memorandum of understanding with Los Angeles-based Oak View Group to privately finance a roughly $600 million remodel that would nearly double the square footage of KeyArena. The facility housed the NBA’s SuperSonics until they relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder. Oak View Group has been focused on acquiring an NHL franchise and turning KeyArena into a world-class hockey and concert facility with the potential of hosting an NBA team in the future. It has said it could have the building ready by October 2020 if environmental approvals are obtained and demolition can start in October 2018. “I believe this is the best thing for the city of Seattle whoever you cheer for,” said Councilmember Debora Juarez, who co-
chaired the council’s committee on civic arenas. She said she was proud of the agreement that was hammered out “at little or no costs to the taxpayers” and embodied the city’s values. Following the 7-1 council vote, Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a statement that she looks forward to reviewing and signing the MOU. “I’ve said consistently that I’m committed to bring back our Sonics, recruit an NHL team, and invest in our city,” Durkan said. The NHL has not hidden its interest in Seattle, the No. 14 media market in the country and the only market in the top 25 that does not have an NBA or NHL team. “We feel extremely good about the partnership between the city of Seattle and OVG and respect and applaud the city in its ability to be thoughtful, collaborative, and deal focused throughout this process while maintaining the best interest of its citizens,” Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke said in a statement.
OVG has lined up billionaire David Bonderman and filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer as the lead owners for a potential NHL franchise. KeyArena opened its doors in 1962 and was last renovated in 1995. It is currently home to the WNBA’s Seattle Storm and hosts dozens of concerts and other events. It had about 570,000 visitors last year. Councilmembers praised the agreement for including benefits for the city including $20 million in cash and in-kind contributions to nonprofit organizations and another $40 million to help improve transportation in the area around Seattle Center. The memorandum of understanding is the first step in a process that will include an environmental review. The city still needs to finalize several key documents with the developer, including the lease and other agreements. Under the MOU, Oak View Group would be responsible for regular facility upgrades for the life of the 39-year lease agreement.
Should those upgrade requirements be met, there are two eight-year lease extensions that will be activated, and carry the entire life of the lease agreement to 55 years. The council’s action comes one day after an agreement for another arena in Seattle’s stadium district expired. The city and investor Chris Hansen agreed to an arena plan in 2012 that was contingent on Hansen acquiring an NBA team and included some public investment in a project to be constructed near Safeco Field. Hansen has since offered a completely privately financed project, but has continued to run into road blocks in getting final approvals to make his arena “shovel-ready” should an NBA team become available. “Having two viable arena options puts Seattle in the best position to attract an NBA team,” Hansen and other partners said in a statement. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Facebook Announces Expansion Plans Emily Buenzle CEG WEB EDITOR
Facebook announced Dec. 12 that it will build two additional data centers on its Prineville, Ore. Campus. So far, the tech giant has spent more than $1 billion at this location for the construction of three enormous facilities in addition to another “cold storage” building totaling 1.2 million sq. ft., Oregon Live reported. According to the city of Prineville, Facebook recently signed an agreement for property tax exemptions for the new buildings. The company has benefitted from similar agreements in the past, which have totaled savings of more than $70 million. Building the 970,000-sq.-ft. facili-
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So far, the tech giant has spent more than $1 billion at this location for the construction of three enormous facilities in addition to another “cold storage” building totaling 1.2 million sq. ft., Oregon Live reported.
ties will mean jobs for hundreds of construction workers. According to Prineville City Manager Steve Forrester, the city has put a lot of time into improving its infrastructure to help attract big indus-
try. Now, with the presence of tech giants like Facebook and Apple, the work has been a success. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Fish Barrier Removal Reaches Milestone Two big bridges built. Two more to go. Weather permitting, the extensive and continuing effort to remove barriers to fish on Wildcat Creek in McCleary soon will bring new changes for drivers using both directions of state Route 8. “This is a big effort, so we are immensely grateful for drivers’ patience,” said John Romero, a project engineer with the Washington State Department of Transportation. “We’re also happy to report the work is scheduled to wrap up on time by spring 2019.” WSDOT has kept traffic moving through the work zone by reconfiguring westbound SR 8 to accommodate both directions of traffic. Crews soon will reverse that configuration and put both directions of traffic onto eastbound SR 8. That traffic shift will take place in phases. For a short time, drivers will use the right lanes of both westbound and eastbound SR 8. Eventually all traffic will be on the reconfigured eastbound lanes. The road will then remain in that
configuration for approximately 12 months. In the event of inclement weather, the work and traffic shift will be postponed. Removing barriers to fish at this location requires WSDOT to build bridges that span up to 160 ft. Replacing existing culverts with the bridges allows fish to more easily pass through this portion of the creek. The Middle Fork and East Fork streambeds also are being restored to help enhance fish habitat. The intersection of SR 8 and SR 108 remains closed through project completion. The project is part of a larger WSDOT effort to replace culverts that act as barriers to fish. In addition to building new bridges, crews also will restore creek beds under the Carl Thigpen highway to improve fish habitat. (This story also can be found on Construction ECCO Equipment Corporation has hired Carl Thigpen to Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipserve as the new regional manager for the Idaho Region. mentguide.com.) Thigpen brings extensive experience in the heavy equipment business to this position. He cut his teeth in the rental business with United Rentals as a salesman and manager. He moved to the Boise area in 2008 and gained additional experience and expertise with sales and management positions at RSC and H&E Equipment. Oregon. This review for “adequacy” plan. Those project plans will provide As Idaho regional manager, Thigpen will be responsible will make sure the applicants have all more detail about future timelines. for overseeing all rental, sales and maintenance operations in the key elements in place to move forThe Treasure Valley and mid- Idaho as well as parts of eastern Oregon. ward. Willamette Valley transload projects, “I’m delighted to join the team here at ECCO. I plan to “We’ll look for things like, do they along with two other intermodal build on ECCO’s excellent reputation as the premier heavy have an organizational structure that’s investments (rail expansions in Brooks equipment rental company in the West. I’m confident we can viable? Do they have experience in and at the Port of Morrow), are part of deliver equipment solutions to everyone in the valley that delivering a complex, multimodal HB 2017, the 2017 Oregon needs to move dirt,” said Thigpen. project?” said Erik Havig, planning Legislature’s historic transportation ECCO has been renting heavy equipment to customers section manager at ODOT. “Most funding package. since 1962 and entered the Idaho market in 2006. ECCO is importantly, do they have local support For more information, visit a heavy construction equipment rental specialist with 14 and the support of the partner railroad?” oregon.gov/ODOT/Programs/Pages/C locations in the western United States. By mid-January, the team will com- onnectOregon.aspx. For more information, call 800/490-ECCO or visit plete its reviews and forward recom(This story also can be found on eccoequipment.com. mendations to Matt Garrett, ODOT Construction Equipment Guide’s (This story also can be found on Construction director. Recommended applicants website at www.constructionequip- Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipwill then be invited to submit a project mentguide.com.) mentguide.com.)
Six Apply to Build Transload Facilities Six pre-proposals have come in from applicants eager to help Oregon build two transfer facilities — one in Treasure Valley and one in the midWillamette Valley. These transloading sites, where cargo is transferred from one mode, such as trucks, to another, such as rail, will improve shipping connections in critical parts of the state. The Treasure Valley area project received one pre-proposal and the midWillamette Valley area project received five. After an initial review for completeness, the pre-proposals will be reviewed by a group including ODOT planners and staff from Business
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Poe Asphalt Paving Inc. Marks 65th Anniversary Fourth-Generation Business Provides Outstanding Service, Quality Mats in Idaho, Washington Poe Asphalt Paving marks its 65th anniversary this year as the company’s history dates back to 1953 when Ernie Poe and Kenny Knapp formed a firm known simply as Asphalt Paving in Clarkston, Wash. Today, Poe Asphalt Paving has multiple locations that cover a significant portion of the Pacific Northwest and is led by third- and fourth-generation members of the Poe family. “It almost didn’t make it past five years,” said Mark Poe, Ernie’s grandson and current President. “Grandpa was going to sell to Kenny in the early 1960s, but for whatever reason that didn’t happen. My dad, Don, was a teacher at the time, and Grandpa asked him if he wanted to come home during a summer break and see what the business was about.” Instead, in 1962, Ernie and Don bought Knapp’s share of the business and officially named the company Poe Asphalt Paving Inc. Don took over the reins shortly thereafter and ran the business for nearly 30 years before handing them off to Mark in the mid1990s. Today, the company has offices in Lewiston and Post Falls, Idaho, as well as in Pullman, Wash. In addition to asphalt plants at those sites, Poe Asphalt Paving has a facility in Grangeville, Idaho, and runs a portable operation. “The first year that Grandpa and Dad were in business, they laid approximately 4,500 tons of hot mix together with just five employees,” shared Mark. “They had a small batch plant and a couple of end dumps. Things steadily grew from there, in part, because they were willing to take chances. For instance, within seven years they were doing highway work with portable plants. That’s a big step, and most companies don’t do it that quickly, if at all.”
Mark Poe, president
Poe Asphalt Paving has offices in Lewiston and Post Falls, Idaho, as well as in Pullman, Wash. In addition to asphalt plants at those sites, the company has another permanent facility in Grangeville, Idaho, and runs a portable operation.
The Tradition Continues More big moves followed. Under Don’s leadership, Poe Asphalt bought one of the first drum mix plants in the area in the late 1970s. When Mark took over, he added another plant, office and shop in Post Falls in 2000. That location reaches the Greater Spokane, Wash., and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, markets as well. “The decision to move an additional plant up north has been positive. We’ve built a good core group of employees who are both experienced and dedicated,” Mark noted. Mark’s sons, Brian and Dustin, represent the fourth generation in the business. Brian is a Division Manager and takes care of estimating, project management and other
Dustin Poe, superintendent
administrative duties. As a Superintendent, Dustin runs field operations. “They offer a nice balance to the business,” Mark noted. “Dustin enjoys leading crews, and he’s an extremely good teacher. Brian has a real gift for numbers, seeing jobs through from start to finish and meeting budgets. My dad and I worked alongside each other, just as he and grandpa did for many years. It’s great to carry on that tradition.” Vögele Pavers Handle Large, Small Projects The company’s workload is approximately 65 percent public works contracts, such as highways and streets for the states, counties and municipalities in northern Idaho and
eastern Washington. The balance is split between private and commercial activities; including driveways, parking lots, subdivision roadways and more. Poe Asphalt Paving typically runs one large job at a time. Recent projects include paving nearly 2.5 miles of asphalt on U.S. Highway 95 near Coeur D’Alene. Crews laid roughly 25,000 tons of material, 12 to 14 feet wide. Additionally, during a couple of weeks in late May of this year, Poe put down about 700 tons of material for a new parking lot, bus lane and playground at Liberty Creek School in Liberty Lake, Wash. “Occasionally we have two big projects going at once, but for the most part we roll from one big job to the next,” explained Dustin. “At the same time, we’re also doing smaller paves, patches and chip seals. Our season runs from around March 1 to the first or second week of December, and we generally complete about 200 varying-sized projects in that 10-month stretch.” For larger assignments, such as Highway 95, Poe Asphalt utilizes a Highway Class, 10-foot Vögele Super 2000-3i that will pave up to 28 feet, 3 inches wide. Poe uses Carlson screeds that allow for attachments such as slope shoes, extensions and dual skis. A Vögele Super 1700-3i handles overlays, patches and other smaller jobs. The compact, Universal Class, 8-foot machine paves up to 19 feet 6 inches. Modern Machinery Territory Manager Nathan Stott helped Poe Asphalt acquire both pavers. “We demoed other brands along with the Vögeles, and they were all good, but after a trip to the Wirtgen Group factory in Tennessee where they manufacture the Vögele pavers, we decided these were the see POE page 10
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WSDOT Crews Build Roadways Inside SR 99 Tunnel
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In November, the first precast sections of the SR 99 northbound (lower) roadway arrived at the tunnel construction site just south of downtown Seattle.
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Crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners are close to completing a 100-ft.-long section of the SR 99 tunnel in the pit where they disassembled the SR 99 tunneling machine. WSDOT from page 1
walls and upper decks, and material deliveries involved in constructing the tunnel’s corbels, walls and upper deck, Newborn said. “So, while that work finishes up at the far north end of the tunnel, STP’s plan will save time by working their way back south through the tunnel, then returning to finish up the northern third of the roadway. Assembling the lower deck is expected to be complete in 2018. The Washington Department of Transportation expects the
tunnel to be open to traffic in 2019,” she said. The $1.4 billion double deck tunnel is part of the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program. The viaduct, an elevated section of SR 99 in Seattle, was built in the 1950s, but age, wear and tear, and its vulnerability to earthquakes make replacement critical to public safety, according to a fact sheet from the Washington State Department of Transportation. The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program includes project is led by the
At the north end of the tunnel, Seattle Tunnel Partners builds one of the tunnel’s remaining northbound deck walls. The wood deck in the center is a temporary access ramp for delivering materials into the tunnel from the disassembly pit to the north.
WSDOT, King County, the city of Seattle and the Port of Seattle. The Federal Highway Administration is a partner in the effort. Other major elements of the $2.1 billion program in addition to the 2-mi. tunnel include: • a mile-long stretch of new highway that connects to the south entrance of the tunnel, near Seattle’s stadiums; • a new overpass at the south end of downtown that allows traffic to bypass train
blockages near Seattle’s busiest port terminal; • demolition of the viaduct’s downtown waterfront section; and • a new Alaskan Way surface street that connects SR 99 to downtown Seattle. For more information, visit alaskanwayviaduct.org. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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Poe Family Continues 65-Year Family Tradition of Service
A crew from Poe Asphalt Paving lays asphalt with a Vögele Super 2000-3i 10-foot tracked paver and Carlson EZ IV screed on U.S. Highway 95 near Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. “They are built to be tough, sturdy and to put down hundreds of thousands of tons of material without major breakdowns,” said Superintendent Dustin Poe of the company’s Vögele pavers. “Asphalt is abrasive, so it’s hard on equipment. In our estimation, a good paver can withstand that and last 10 years while running a million tons through it. We believe the Vögeles will do just that.” POE from page 6
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best for us,” recalled Dustin. “They are built to be tough, sturdy and to put down hundreds of thousands of tons of material without major breakdowns. Asphalt is abrasive, so it’s hard on equipment. In our estimation, a good paver can withstand that and last 10 years while running a million tons through it. We believe the Vögeles will do just that.” The Wirtgen Group sent an Applications Specialist to help train Poe Asphalt personnel on the machines. Modern Machinery provides further support with parts and service as needed for the pavers. “Nathan, Wirtgen and Modern have been terrific to work with,” noted Mark. “They ensured that we have the right pavers to meet our needs, and that they would back them. They have more than met our expectations.” “We appreciate the relationship our two companies continue to build,” said Modern Machinery President Brian Sheridan. “As with all our customers, we’re here to help Poe Asphalt in any way we can.” Providing Solutions The Poes know that the Vögele pavers will help them continue putting down solid asphalt mats that often lead to honors such as the High Quality Asphalt Pavement Construction Award it received from the Washington Department of Transportation for the U.S. 195 project it completed from
Colfax to Dry Creek in 2013. The Washington Asphalt Paving Association gave Poe Asphalt Paving its Smoothness Award for another job on U.S. 195, this one from the Idaho state line to Colton. “Quality is extremely important to us; not because of the awards, but because it leads to more durable and better-driving roads for the general public, as well as smoother and longer-lasting parking lots and driveways for our customers,” said Brian Poe. “That and providing outstanding customer service are our top priorities. Dad and Grandpa always stressed that to Dustin and me, and we take it to heart.” That focus has led to many satisfied and repeat clients throughout the family’s six decades in the asphalt business. Mark pointed out that he spoke with a customer recently who said he uses Poe Asphalt for three distinct reasons, “ You guys bring our projects in on time, on budget and always provide solutions to our problems.” “That’s the goal of every project we build. I think Grandpa would be extremely proud to know that we are in our fourth generation and continuing the quality work and values he started,” Mark explained. (This story was reprinted with permission from Modern Machinery’s Update Magazine, August 2017 issue.) (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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The LH50M Industry material handler represents efficiency and high performance. The standard Liebherr regenerative power system assures maximum handling while, at the same time, achieving lower fuel consumption. Quiet operation with the highest payload is guaranteed by the large, sturdy undercarriage. The attachment of the machine is available in a variety of versions and is thus always optimally matched to your respective application.
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