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Knife River Corp. Replacing 80-Year-Old Idaho Bridge By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT

Knife River Corporation is constructing the Idaho Transportation Department’s (ITD) $7.3 million U.S. 95 Weiser River Bridge Replacement project, which involves rebuilding a two-lane structure that has been in existence for more than 80 years dating back to 1939. The rural bridge is 10 mi. north of the city of Council. The new bridge is a two-span, 270-ft. long bridge — 42-ft. wide with two, 12ft. travel lanes and 6-ft. shoulders. Knife River began the construction last summer and is looking at a spring or summer delivery date. The existing bridge, which reached the end of its design life, is currently reduced to one lane with alternating one-way traffic and

“The new structure will preserve the safety, mobility and economic opportunity of the highway for many decades to come.” Jake Melder Idaho Transportation Department

Idaho Transportation Department’s $7.3M U.S. 95 Weiser River Bridge Project involves rebuilding a two-lane structure that was erected in 1939 .

temporary signals on either end of the structure. IDT has motorists taking a detour along Old U.S. highway 95 to avoid the construction. “The new structure will preserve the safety, mobility and economic opportunity of the highway for many decades to come,” said Jake Melder, ITD public information officer. Knife River crews are making significant progress. “The bridge was constructed with many pre-cast components assembled on-location by the contractor,” said Melder. “The girders were a deck bulb tee design, allowing the deck to be formed quicker than using traditional girder designs. This method is intended to reduce impacts to the traveling public and the time the construction zone is active.” The work zone is currently inactive. “But it will spool up in the coming months with completion expected this spring or early summer, weather depending,” said Melder. “Additional work to be completed includes, in part, installing guardrail, paving approaches, and sealing the concrete deck of the new bridge with a silica fume overlay. These items will require partial closures of the road, but one lane is anticipated to remain open for travel.” see KNIFE page 8

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Clearing to Paving: Superior Construction Gets Job Done Before earning his high school diploma, Kelly Fulfer was an experienced operator and had chosen a career path in construction. As a teen, he worked part time for a contractor in the Boise area and was running a backhoe by the time he was a junior. “During my senior year I had only a couple of classes, so I worked during the day, too,” recalled Fulfer. “If the project was close to the school, I would just drive the backhoe between there and the jobsite.” After graduating, Fulfer continued to work for the same company, building relationships with several area general contractors. Those contacts would pay off later, when he decided to start Superior Construction & Excavating in the mid-1980s. “I spent a summer working in Alaska and made enough money to come back and buy my own backhoe,” said Fulfer. “I bid my services to the contacts I had made, and they started offering me work. At first it was jobs such as digging crawlspaces for small buildings and trenches for sewer and water hookups.” In time, customers began asking him to do more, and the list of services expanded to a point where Superior Construction & Excavating had the ability to offer full site packages. Today, the Meridian-based company provides everything from clearing to paving for a handful of developers and general contractors working in the residential and commercial markets within approximately a 50mile range of its headquarters. “Concrete and asphalt are subbed out, although we take responsibility for getting those done,” said Fulfer. “While our preference is turnkey site work, we can also break out our services and do stand-alone pipe or dirt projects. Utility installation has always been a specialty.” Aggregates Part of the Mix Fulfer estimates that a third to one half of the pipe bedding and road base materials that Superior Construction & Excavating uses come from its gravel pits. It is currently crushing and stockpiling material at one leased location and

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taking materials from stockpiles at another site the company owns. With close to 60 employees, including key individuals such as Plant Manager Ron Wyatt, who oversees gravel operations, Superior Construction & Excavating runs 12 to 15 jobs at once. Recent assignments include the Craftsman subdivision in Star, Idaho, which called for pond excavation of close to 270,000 cubic yards of dirt that was kept on-site and spread for fill and grading. It also installed underground utilities. Operators used Komatsu intelligent Machine Control D61PXi-23 and D61PXi-24 dozers to construct the ponds, build subgrade for the roads and level lots. Superior Construction & Excavating began using the Dash-23 nearly two years ago and recently added a second. It will soon have a PC290LCi-11 intelligent Machine Control excavator as well. “Accuracy is spot-on, no matter the application,” said Operator Justin Bollinger. “I love that there are no masts or cables to deal with. Set up is easy. Once a model is downloaded, it’s a matter of getting in the machine, doing a quick calibration and letting it do the work. If you have an area to fill, it will place the materials as fast as the truck drivers can dump them. The blade holds grade no matter how fast I push or what material I’m placing.” Fulfer acquired the intelligent Machine Control dozers not long after he started adding standard Komatsu equipment to his fleet. He now has more than 20 machines, including excavators, dozers, wheel loaders and articulat-

Superior Construction & Excavating recently added KPI-JCI equipment, including a Kodiak Plus K300+ cone crusher and a 6-by-20, triple-deck screen.

Superior Construction & Excavating Operator Justin Bollinger fine grades dirt with a Komatsu intelligent Machine Control D61PXi-24 dozer on a subdivision project in Star, Idaho.

ed dump trucks. He worked with Modern Machinery and Territory Manager Jared Johnson as well as Boise Branch Manager Kory Bladt to lease the machinery. Fulfer also takes advantage of Komatsu CARE – a complimentary maintenance program that comes standard on Tier 4 equipment for the first 2,000 hours or three years. Once that expires, he extends the service with Modern CARE to 4,000 hours or two years. Under both programs, Modern Machinery technicians perform routine scheduled maintenance. “We had hydraulic component issues with another brand and that led to a need to rebuild several engines in a short time, so we took a look at Komatsu,” explained

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Fulfer. “Modern Machinery put together an impressive package of machines. Equally as important is service. Jared, Kory and Modern have been excellent to work with.” Those relationships prompted Fulfer to consider KPI-JCI crushing and screening machines, and it recently worked with Johnson and Modern Machinery to acquire a Kodiak Plus K300+ cone crusher and a 6-by-20, three-deck screen, as well as conveying and stacking equipment. Superior Construction & Excavating is currently making four products at a time. “We replaced two plants with one. Our maintenance costs are reduced, and we maintained production, so the KPI-JCI is a big win for us,” stated Wyatt.

Retirement Not in the Plans, Yet Looking ahead, Fulfer expects to keep Superior Construction & Excavating at roughly its current size and continue to work in the same markets. He’s not considering retiring anytime soon, either. “I might slow down a little — unless I can find another good gravel source,” he joked. “In all honesty, I don’t know if I’ll ever retire; although if I ever do step away, I feel confident the business would remain in good hands. I have some guys who have been here 30-plus years, and the staff is very good. They are a big reason why Superior continues to hang its hat on quality work done right.” ■

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Oregon Highway Project Lettings

The Oregon Department of Transportation received bids for transportation-related improvement projects. Following is a list of some of the projects let.

• Wildish Construction Company — $2,545,247 • Knife River Corporation - Northwest — $2,949,809 • Oregon Mainline Paving LLC — $3,158,769

County: Jackson Contract ID: 15185 Project Description: I-5: Homestead (Rogue R) Bridges to bridges over OR 99. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • The Truesdell Corporation — $2,044,044 • HP Civil Inc. — $2,148,957 • American Civil Constructors West Coast LLC — $2,363,000 • Carter & Company Inc. — $2,556,308 County: Polk Contract ID: 15188 Project Description: OR 22: Rickreall Interchange - Independence Highway. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Roy Houck Construction LLC — $3,663,426 • Mainline Paving LLC — $3,744,858 • CPM Development Corporation — $3,805,544 • Knife River Corporation - Northwest — $3,822,156 • North Santiam Paving Company — $3,839,847 • Kerr Contractors Oregon LLC — $4,673,314 County: Douglas Contract ID: 15186 Project Description: I-5: Sutherlin — Garden Valley Blvd. Project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Oregon Mainline Paving LLC — $12,669,873 • Kerr Contractors Oregon LLC — $12,899,414 County: Jackson Contract ID: 15190 Project Description: OR140: Atlantic Avenue intersection improvements project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • JRT Construction LLC — $3,396,236 • LTM Inc. d/b/a Knife River Materials — $3,449,999 County: Clackamas Contract ID: 15191

Counties: Various Contract ID: 15194 Project Description: Region 2 centerline rumble strips (Unit 3) project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Apply-A-Line LLC — $2,150,963 • Specialized Pavement Marking Inc. — $3,314,577 • Specialized Pavement Marking Inc. — $3,679,077

Project Description: I-205: Abernethy Bridge - SE 82nd Drive. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Kerr Contractors Oregon LLC — $5,110,596 • Granite Construction Company — $5,289,289 • Oregon Mainline Paving LLC — $5,552,337 County: Marion Contract ID: 15192 Project Description: OR 22: Bad Banks Creek culvert project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Siegmund Excavation & Construction Inc. — $833,653 • Legacy Contracting Inc. — $850,649 • Jal Construction Inc. — $1,072,673 County: Lane Contract ID: 15193 Project Description: OR 58: Goshen-Pheasant Lane Section. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Eugene Sand Construction Inc. — $2,326,992

County: Various Contract ID: 15178 Project Description: I-84 Hood River, I-84 Rufus and U.S. 97 Biggs Junction VMS project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Northeast Electric LLC — $520,942 • Conway Construction Company — $685,000 • HP Civil Inc. — $757,854 • Marcum & Sons LLC — $850,555 • Coral Construction Company — $854,817 Counties: Various Contract ID: 15167 Project Description: U.S. 26: Timberline Highway — OR 35 Sherwood Campground section. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Baker Rock Crushing Company d/b/a Baker Rock Resources — $211,595 • Coral Construction Company — $305,321 County: Lincoln Contract ID: 15168 Project Description: U.S. 101: Yaquina Bay Bridge project. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Wildish Standard Paving Company — $26,095,255 • Hamilton Construction Company — $27,006,412

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U.S. 95 Weiser River Bridge Reaches End of Design Life KNIFE from page 1

Peak days had 25 plus Knife River and subcontractor employees on site. Local and regional subcontractors were brought in. The demolition netted a fair amount of concrete steel, and asphalt. New materials brought in included concrete, rebar, steel, and asphalt.

The demolition process had each side of the bridge taken down on separate days. “Demolition took a single day,” said Melder. “During the day the parapet was removed and saw cuts were made to the deck — about eight to10 hours. At night, the bridge was completely closed so a crane could station on one lane and lift off the cut sections from the other lane. The overnight closures were in place for six hours.” The first step in the construction was the

Bridge demolition at an early stage via clean cut lines of the old deck. The crawler crane is helping to lift the heavy pieces.

Two crawler cranes at work for the construction of the temporary bridge. Note that one side of the bridge is open to traffic. A mobile traffic signal at one end is controlling traffic flow on a detour road.

erection of a temporary bridge, strong enough to host large crawler cranes and materials, used by crews for the demolition and construction. Once the established, the work ramped up. At times the work site was

A variety of drill tools have been utilized to drill test holes and pile holes. Much of the drilling took place in earth and rock terrain.

tight as space was only available on the closed bridge lane and on the sides of the bridge approaches. Many of the beams and girders were delivered on “as needed” basis. Preventing debris from falling into the

river was an important aspect of the project. Safety is a paramount issue due to the height of the old and new bridges via the open spaces that were created and the rushing water below.

Construction Impact On average, 2,400 trips are made daily on this stretch of U.S. 95, though that number can double during peak summer travel. ITD designers was responsible for the design of the new concrete bridge. “The bridge replacement is a critical preservation project as this section of U.S. 95 is one of only two routes between the Boise Metro Area and the Central Mountains of Idaho,” said Melder. “The old structure was deteriorating and posed a significant risk to loss of access should it be damaged to a point where traffic could not pass on it.” The work is impacting local traffic, especially as trucks and vehicles longer than 40 ft. are not permitted to travel on the detour and unless an alternate route can be found, could face up to 12-hour delays to get across. Most of the work is occurring during the day, although some night closures of the bridge took place last summer and a few more are anticipated. Flaggers are on-site to help slow traffic to protect construction workers. IDT had alerted nearby residents that they might experience increased noise levels due to the installation of girders and piers. In terms of equipment, Knife River and the subcontractors are using crawler cranes, including a Liebherr SH 85 HD; excavators: Cat models; loaders; portable generators; and other standard machinery.  CEG

Lamont Cantrell Appointed as Modern Machinery President Modern Machinery Co. Inc. has appointed Lamont Cantrell as president, effective immediately, the company announced. Lamont joined the company in 2003. Lamont, who is well known in the heavy equipment industry, has played a key role in building Modern Machinery into the successful business it is today, a sales and service leader. “Modern has been fortunate to have Lamont’s leadership, energy and passion for nearly two decades,” said Modern Machinery Director Larry Simkins. “This opportunity for Lamont to lead at the highest level of the company is a testament to his commitment to the company. We look forward to working closely with Lamont.” Lamont got his start in the construction and mining industry in 1978 serving as the district manager of the newly-formed Komatsu America. He oversaw produc-

tion in Ohio, Pa. and the Northeastern United States. Nearly a decade later, Lamont joined the retail side of the industry in 1987 as Construction and Mining Group Sales Manager for Anderson Equipment Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1997, he ventured to the Midwest where he took the position of general manager of Roland Machinery in Chicago. Fast-forward a handful of years later, and Lamont joined Modern Machinery in 2003 as vice president of sales and marketing, a role in which he held until his 2017 move as chief operating officer of U.S. Operations. Lamont replaces Mark Fallon, who has been President of Modern Machinery since 2018. Mark, who also served as president of another Washington Company, Envirocon, Inc., is leaving to pursue an opportunity in the construction industry. 

Cantrell, who is well known in the heavy equipment industry, has played a key role in building Modern Machinery into the successful business it is today, a sales and service leader.

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