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February 28 2021 Vol. VI • No. 5

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Industry Pioneer Earns ‘OutstandingService’ Honor

Ralph L. Wadsworth earned the prestigious Eric. W. Ryberg award from the AGC of Utah.

By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT

Ralph L. Wadsworth grew up on a farm in Idaho where he was taught to work hard and not expect anything to be given to him. A gifted boxer, Wadsworth earned a scholarship to the University of Idaho, where he graduated with a degree in civil engineering. He soon discovered how much he really knew. “I started a civil engineering company,” Wadsworth said. “Working with construction firms, I found out I knew more than they did about building codes. I was lucky enough to have seven boys. Who couldn’t be successful in Every year the AGC of Utah honors “one person whose outstanding service to the general contracting industry of Utah is exemplary,” construction with seven boys?” with the Eric W. Ryberg award. This year, Ralph L. Wadsworth earned that distinguished honor for work on many projects throughout see WADSWORTH page 6

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Construction Crews Wrap Up UDOT’s Top Priority Project Applied Research Associates Inc. (ARA) was part of a team of designers and contractors who recently completed a large, high-priority design/build project on Utah’s Tech Corridor on I-15. The project is located south of Salt Lake City for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). The project was ranked as UDOT’s number one priority project for 2018 when construction began due to the very high growth of truck and auto traffic in this area. The $430 million project to widen I-15 in Utah County was designed to improve traffic congestion between Lehi’s Main Street and S.R. 92, known as the Timpanogas Highway. ARA conducted all of the pavement designs as well as provided technical assistance on several major obstacles that arose during construction. ARA’s contributions involved at least a dozen different designs such as the main line, ramps, cross streets, frontage roads and adjacent highways. For the project, engineers leveraged the ARA-developed AASHTOWare ME Pavement Design software, which helps public and private pavement engineers leverage effective The $430 million project to widen I-15 in Utah County was designed to improve traffic congestion between pavement design and analysis tools to improve the cost- Lehi’s Main Street and S.R. 92, known as the Timpanogas Highway. effective design and performance of roadway pavements. The new Tech Corridor reconstruction includes 10 to 12 local traffic lanes and shoulders, all with concrete designed to last 40 years. The reconstructed pavement length represents about 8 mi. of I-15 that was originally built in the 1970s. The “Tech Corridor” name applies to the area of Utah County that boasts more than 100 high-tech companies and government offices and is one of the fastest growing areas in the United This massive project used innovative scheduling and planning techniques States. This project is the third major I-15 to complete the $1.725 billion project two years ahead of schedule. ARA design/build project. The I-15 work began in 2009 and extended until 2020 with over 38 mi. of concrete freeway plus adjacent roadways. Another major design/build project Engineers leveraged the ARA-developed AASHTOWare that included ARA as the pavement ME Pavement Design software, which helps public designer is U.S. 89 north of Salt Lake and private pavement engineers leverage effective City, which is under full-scale construcpavement design and analysis tools to improve the tion at the present time. cost-effective design and performance of roadway pavements. The largest of these major I-15 ARA pavement design projects was 24 mi. in length and was constructed between 2010 and 2012. ARA was the engineer of record and UDOT earned the America’s Transportation Awards Grand Prize from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) for the I-15 corridor expansion (I-15 The project was ranked as UDOT’s number one priority project for 2018 construction began due to the very high growth of truck and auto CORE). This massive project used when traffic in this area. innovative scheduling and planning techniques to complete the $1.725 billion project two years ahead of schedule while also using “The people living and working along the Tech Corridor will cost effective yet reliable pavement designs, saving taxpay- benefit from smooth safe pavement for decades.” ARA has provided comprehensive highway and airfield ers approximately $260 million. “ARA designed pavements utilized much of the existing infrastructure services for more than 30 years to local and road materials, allowing for construction dollars to be state highway agencies and assisted contractors with The new Tech Corridor reconstruction includes 10 to stretched while still providing 30 years of expected structural design/build projects. For more information, visit 12 local traffic lanes and shoulders, all with concrete designed to last 40 years. performance,” said ARA Principal Engineer Mike Harrell. www.ara.com/infrastructure. 

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Innovative Concrete Work Drives SLC Water Project Valued at more than half a bil“The new system uses perforatlion dollars, Salt Lake City’s new ed metal StayForm and Unistrut to Water Reclamation Facility hold everything in place,” said (WRF) is a massive public infraTerry. “When the placement is finstructure project that will have ished, you just remove the wide-ranging benefits for the UniStrut bracket and top 2 by 4, community. During the five-year and everything else remains in rebuild, Sundt and joint-venture place. Then you can re-use the partner PCL Construction will use whole thing.” nearly 113,000 cu. yds. of conTerry and Sundt Vice President crete and 16,500 tons of reinand Concrete Operations forced steel — almost double the Manager Danny Gumm develamount of concrete and a third of oped the drawings with help from the steel used in the Empire State Sundt’s VDC team and then tested Building. With project goals of the prototype with Sundt craft, Envision Platinum and LEED and the WRF project was cleared Gold, the new WRF is also as its maiden voyage. designed to meet new environ“We’ve now placed over half of mental standards, while increasour slab on grade with this ing ROI and reducing costs for method, and it’s proven very proWith lows in the 20s, the team is following cold weather ratepayers. protocols, using ground frost heaters and concrete blan- ductive, while also minimizing Building a green mega-project, kets to heat rebar before placement and then cure concrete material and waste,” said Terry. however, doesn’t necessarily above 50 degrees for seven days. “We’ve completed the same mean adding huge costs or comamount of linear feet as the tradiplexity. Sundt|PCL crews have tional method in about a third of been recycling demolished concrete and and stakes,” said Terry. “When you have the time.” using other local, more sustainable materi- hundreds of stakes protruding above the formwork, they get in the way of the finishals. PCL Brings Shared Culture, In early 2020, Sundt Concrete ers. They also create an impalement hazard, Complementary Strengths Superintendent Brady Terry saw the need for so you have to use hundreds of plastic bar Coming off of a recent wastewater treata better formwork method, so he decided to guards.” ment project with Sundt in Arizona, PCL Stripping and disposing of the formwork Construction was the ideal JV partner for a create his own. “In the past, we’ve always used particle also took time and energy. project the size and importance of Salt Lake The solution was to remove the need for City’s WRF. The facility will be able to board and form stakes to build our construction joints, which consumes a lot of lumber stakes and particle board altogether. process 56 million gallons of water per day

and serve more than 200,000 residents in the surrounding area. “We came in with a strong relationship with Sundt’s Industrial Group,” said PCL’s Construction Manager Shayne Waldron. “Both companies are employee-owned, and that translates to shared values and a mutual desire to constantly improve our processes. This is evident in Brady’s work in concrete, and we see this dynamic from both sides throughout the site.” As each company learns from and builds on each other’s strengths, a process of “iron sharpening iron” is taking place on this project. Self-perform crews including concrete, earth work, equipment setting and pipe setting are all a mixture of PCL and Sundt craft professionals, with each side bringing their own unique skills and best practices. PCL’s expertise will be especially valuable as the team shifts its focus to other important scopes, including a 40-ft.-deep, 7ft.-diameter tunnel that will run nearly 1-mi. long underneath the site. This will be built using micro-tunneling, a trenchless construction method, and will serve as a main artery for incoming wastewater to be processed at the facility. “PCL has proven experience in tunnel construction,” said Waldron. “No doubt it will be challenging, but I know the team here has the combined ability to get the job done. So far, I’m really impressed with what we’ve been able to accomplish together — and I think our client is as well.” 

Takeuchi Adds EquipmentShare to Its Dealer Network Takeuchi-US has added EquipmentShare of North Salt Lake, Utah, to its growing North American dealer network. Like EquipmentShare’s Columbia, Mo., facility, the location at 295 South Redwood Rd. in North Salt Lake will carry Takeuchi’s full line of excavators, compact track loaders and wheel loaders for sale and rental. It also will offer replacement parts and serve as an authorized Takeuchi equipment repair center for customers throughout a sevencounty region in north central Utah. Founded by construction and equipment industry veterans in 2014, EquipmentShare offers and supports various heavy equipment product lines. The company has locations throughout the United States that offer an ecosystem of digital and equipment solutions — including new and used equipment rental and retail sales — that helps contractors increase productivity and get the most out of their equipment. “Since we began carrying the Takeuchi line at our Columbia,

The location at 295 South Redwood Rd. in North Salt Lake will carry Takeuchi’s full line of excavators, compact track loaders and wheel loaders for sale and rental.

Missouri, location in July 2020, we’ve been consistently impressed with Takeuchi’s quality equipment, customer focus and dealer support,” said Jabbok Schlacks, president and CEO of EquipmentShare. “Takeuchi knows what today’s equipment owners and operators are looking for in a machine — durability, comfort and productivity. We’re pleased to now offer their equipment in the Salt Lake

City area, and we expect that our customers there will quickly come to appreciate the difference a Takeuchi machine can make.” EquipmentShare will add additional compact/utility equipment sales professionals at the North Salt Lake location, each equipped with a truck and trailer to transport machines to various locations as needed. The location’s rental sales representatives will be

trained specifically on Takeuchi equipment, and all sales professionals will attend an annual sales training at Takeuchi’s U.S. headquarters in Pendergrass, Ga. EquipmentShare will provide factory trained service technicians to ensure quality service and repairs are available to the Takeuchi customer base. “Our experience working with EquipmentShare has been extremely positive,” said Henry Lawson, director of sales of Takeuchi-US. “They’ve done an excellent job representing our equipment in Missouri, and we have no doubt that they will provide great sales and support for Takeuchi customers in the growing Salt Lake City market.” For more information on Takeuchi dealers, visit locator.takechius.com. For more information on Takeuchi track loaders, excavators and wheel loaders, visit www.takeuchi-us.com. 

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Ralph L. Wadsworth Credits Sons for Business Success WADSWORTH from page 1

While tongue-in-cheek, perhaps, Wadsworth attributes his success to his sons, folks in the industry know it has everything to do with hard work, dedication and ingenuity. That’s why, in January, his peers honored that ethic with the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Utah Eric W. Ryberg award. The award was established in 1960 in honor of Ryberg, the third president of the AGC of Utah. It is presented annually at the AGC’s annual convention to “one person whose outstanding service to the general contracting industry of Utah is exemplary.” In accepting the award via ZOOM from his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., Wadsworth said, “I really appreciate this award and I am humbled by it. I’d like to accept this award on behalf of all the people who helped me earn it.” With the help of three of his sons, Guy, Con and Tod, Wadsworth started his construction company in 1975. In doing so, he noted, his sons “turned a weekly allowance into a billable return” as they embarked on their first bridge project, a box culvert in Sandy, Utah. Small street improvements grew into large scale highway and bridge projects and within 10 years Ralph L. Wadsworth — RLW for short — grew from a $500,000 business to $17 million one. Today, revenues exceed $300 million annually with work spanning 10 states, and divisions in heavy In 1996, Wadsworth founded the highway, deep foundations, concrete batchWadsworth Development Group, which has developed commercial real estate ing and commercial industrial concrete. projects valued at $1 billion in 12 states. RLW also is responsible for more than 200 structural concrete art murals coloring Utah’s highways and byways. Tod Wadsworth said. “We are one of the few “Bridgework is the true hallmark, dotting companies that has moved as many bridges Utah construction landscape,” said Rich into place overnight or on the weekend Thorn, president/CEO of AGC of Utah, in shift.” honoring Wadsworth. “It was Ralph who On those projects, Tod Wadsworth pioneered Utah’s first ever accelerated describes being on the freeway, with adjabridge construction with an overnight instalcent traffic moving and knowing the project, lation at 4500 South and I-215. RLW is the in the works for months and months in reputable leader in the AGC industry with advance, requires shutting down the freeway over 26 bridges placed without error or for the night. delay.” “People are planning on using these In 1996, Wadsworth founded the roads,” said Tod Wadsworth. “You tear out Wadsworth Development Group, which has the bridge overnight. Months later, the crews developed commercial real estate projects have built a substructure under the existing valued at $1 billion in 12 states. bridge to receive the new bridge. They push “Ralph L. Wadsworth’s impact on the Ralph Wadsworth also is known for his charitable works, such as the National or move a new bridge into place overnight construction industry is showcased across Guard charitable trust fund, which hosts a 5-K run and silent auction to raise and then construct entrances. In the morning, Utah with over 650 traffic and pedestrian money for financial aid for soldiers and their families. they open it back up and away you go. structures and many other landmark projects We’ve done 26 to 27 of those type bridges that have intersected with each of our lives,” Thorn said. over the last 10 to 12 years. They do it all over the world. “Ralph takes pride in the hard work ethic, respect and grit We’ve been fortunate enough to do a lot of that in our found in the Utah-based workforce that has made all of home state of Utah.” this possible.” Ralph Wadsworth also is known for his charitable Wadsworth isn’t shy about that pride. “In Utah, we have works, such as the National Guard charitable trust fund, workers that know how to work; they know what the law which hosts a 5-K run and silent auction to raise money is, they respect each other.” for financial aid for soldiers and their families. But if othWadsworth’s son, Tod, believes his father’s success was ers are grateful for Wadsworth’s work and good deeds, built on discipline rather than trying to “get rich quick.” Wadsworth is equally thankful. Were he to articulate a motto, Tod Wadsworth said, it “We’ve done a lot of great things and I appreciate all would likely be “work hard, get better at what you do so the help,” he said. “We get calls at Christmas thanking you can be more competitive, more innovative.” me for the job, and I haven’t hired anyone in 20 years. That’s how Wadsworth became a pioneer in the state of Wadsworth pioneered Utah’s first ever accelerated bridge The first time I saw this was a few hours ago. Honestly Utah in Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC). with an overnight installation at 4500 South it brought tears to my eyes. It made me feel pretty good.” “Part of our success is taking on challenging work,” construction and I-215.  CEG

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