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Hitachi Ships Its First ZX210LC-6 Utility Excavator

Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas Inc. (HCMA) announced that the first medium-sized Hitachi ZX210LC-6 utility hydraulic excavator, built for the North American market, has shipped from Hitachi Construction Machinery Tsuchiura Works (Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan).

The ZX210LC-6 excavator is the first of many Hitachibuilt and branded machines soon to be available throughout North America and Latin America, according to the manufacturer.

With the joint venture dissolution between Hitachi Construction Machinery Group and Deere & Company, announced earlier this year, HCMA is committed to independently developing and deploying the latest product advancements, technologies and services throughout the region.

To celebrate this important milestone for Hitachi and its customers, the team in Japan responsible for developing and building this first excavator unit gathered to give it a proper sendoff. Draped across the machine is a banner with the phrase “Empowering the Americas — The Lineup Grows More Powerful.”

This message signifies HCMA’s commitment to its customers moving into the future.

Since 1965, with the introduction of the Hitachi UH03, Japan’s first hydraulic excavator, Hitachi hydraulic excavators have been a flagship product of the Hitachi Construction Machinery portfolio. With a range of models available to meet customers’ specific requirements, these machines excel at leveling and forming work for large-scale residential land and the development of social infrastructure for roads, railways and riverways.

Hitachi utility excavators available in the Americas, including the ZX210LC-6 model, are equipped with Solution Linkage Assist, a proprietary machine control feature, which enables efficient work to be performed without over-excavating the target work surface, as well as a hydraulic system that features high-efficiency AERIAL ANGLE technology to help improve worksite safety and the brand’s ConSite OIL service solution.

These machines are designed to help contractors in the Americas maintain the quality of work amid labor shortages and the decline in experienced operators, as well as to contribute to improved productivity and safe operation.

Local sales for the latest Hitachi-built line of equipment will start in North America in March 2022.

For more information, visit www.hitachicm.us. 

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The Bobcat facility can take advantage of roughly 14,000-sq.-ft of space on a four-acre site.

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The building housing the dealership was constructed from the ground up, Thigpen said, beginning last April. J.M. Cope Construction in Rock Hill was the general contractor on the job.

The Bobcat facility can take advantage of roughly 14,000-sq.-ft of space on a 4-acre site. That includes 10 service bays and a total of 8,000-sq.-ft. for the technicians to do their work.

“Starting out in Rock Hill, we have a service manager overseeing three technicians, and there could be more depending on how quickly we grow,” he said. “There is also one field service truck operating out of that facility. The branch manager there is Randy Warrington, who has been with us about nine years. We have 72 total employees working across all four of our branches, including the eight on the job in Rock Hill.”

Family-Run for 71 Years

R.S. Braswell can boast of having kept itself a family company since its formation in 1950. Thigpen’s grandfather — and company namesake Roy Braswell — chose to add Bobcat products to his dealership’s lineup in 1969, which is also when Steve Thigpen’s father, Alton, came aboard.

Steve is proud to call himself a thirdgeneration member of such a successful family-owned company.

He joined R.S. Braswell Co. in 1991 at the same time the company opened a second store, Bobcat of Charlotte, to satisfy the growing demand for Bobcat equipment in the Charlotte area. The dealership has continued to be an enormous success, allowing Bobcat to maintain its position as the preferred brand of compact loaders and excavators among customers in the Central Carolinas.

Eight years later, another location, Bobcat of Monroe, was opened east of Charlotte. That 16,000-sq.-ft. facility gives customers in the Union County area a more convenient access to equipment sales, parts, service and rentals.

Now, Thigpen said that he believes, with four stores in two states, R.S. Braswell Co.’s Bobcat dealerships will benefit from their combined strengths to remain the top choice for professionals when shopping for Bobcat equipment in the Carolinas.  CEG

Experts Evaluate Site of Underground Parking Garage

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A statement from Civic Construction reads in part, “As is the case with any highrise development in south Florida, our team has experienced a series of minor leaks during the excavation process. The source of these leaks is the water table, which does not interact with Biscayne Bay or the drinking water that comes from the Biscayne Aquifer.

“Our team is remediating these leaks as they happen, and there is no evidence of impacts on surrounding properties. Because the water table spans across South Florida, water intrusion of this nature is common during the early stages of high-rise developments in the region. We anticipate that additional leaks may take place as construction moves forward.”

In a letter to some nearby residents obtained by Local 10 News on Nov. 16, Miami-Dade County DERM Director Lourdes Gomez noted that “the ground we live on in Miami-Dade County is very porous and it contains groundwater. Therefore, when excavating [here], it is common to encounter the groundwater table as you excavate down into the ground.” She added that contractors will commonly try to mitigate against the amount of groundwater they encounter by “sealing or grouting the ground…before they start the excavation.”

Builders also will use a dewatering technique, she wrote, that involves pumping out any water that does seep in “to help keep the area dry while they conduct their work” which includes when they form and pour concrete.

“Unfortunately, in this specific case, it appears that the work to seal the ground at the excavation has not worked adequately and they have had groundwater seeping into the evacuation area,” Gomez noted.

According to city building records, DERM inspectors on Nov. 15 reported that with water continuing to enter the site, a holding pond was made with backfill soil to limit flooding.

Challenges of Project in Shallow Water Table

Rachel Silverstein, of Miami Waterkeeper, said, “It is very difficult to do construction underground in south Florida because we have very porous limestone rock beneath us. We also happen to have a shallow water table. You only have dry rock for a short time before you hit the water, so it can be very complicated to construct underground parking here in Miami.”

This is one of the reasons, she said, that you do not see basement construction in south Florida homes like in other parts of the country.

The Una Residences underground garage may consider itself the deepest, but building subterranean garages is common for Miami, said City Commissioner Ken Russell, who pointed to the recently completed underground garage at Brickell City Center.

“It just has more challenges here in Miami with porous limestone and aquifers and bodies of water,” he said, adding that as long as it has been deemed “safe” the city will continue to permit these types of projects.

As it happened, the groundwater breach in October occurred on an evening when Local 10 News meteorologists said south Florida experienced seawater coastal flooding. In addition, a full moon helped to create the King Tides phase in the third week of November.

Extra Scrutiny in Post-Surfside Era

Some residents in nearby Brickell buildings said they are concerned about another incident like the Surfside condo collapse. Wdowinski recently published the findings of his groundbreaking research into the June 24 catastrophe that killed 98 people. Analyzing space-based radar data, the FIU researcher “identified the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium as the one place on the east side of the barrier island where land subsidence was detected from 1993 to 1999.”

He added that “land subsidence in and of itself likely would not cause a building’s collapse.” But, in a post-Surfside era, Wdowinski said it is understandable that there would be extra scrutiny from nearby residents and city building officials related to soil foundation and the structural integrity of buildings and projects along our coastline.

“What happened in Surfside...put everybody on alert and justifiably so because we don’t see situations like that — it was scary,” he told Miami’s Local 10 News station.

Wdowinski added that another lesson learned from Surfside is the importance of monitoring buildings after they are constructed.

“I think that if we learn something from the Champlain Towers South, it is that it is not enough to check it when they do these buildings, but also afterward,” he explained. “We need to continue monitoring these buildings, especially when [they age].” 