The Alaska Contractor - Spring 2011 - Keep Trees

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Project Update Port of Anchorage, Seward Breakwater Extension, Whittier Barge Ramp Upgrades By JE s s i Ca Bo W M a n PORT OF ANCHORAGE The Port of Anchorage, dubbed one of 19 U.S. “strategic ports” by the Department of Defense, underwent extensive renovations in 2010. WCC contracted with ICRC on the Port’s Intermodal Expansion Project. The $7 million effort began in January 2010 and consisted of vibrocompaction and soils densifi cation on-site. The second phase began six months later and included removal of sheet piling in areas that had seen more than fi ve decades of cargo infl ux and outfl ux. The OPEN CELL SHEET PILE® bulkhead design, developed by PND Engineers, required tail walls, which extend into the fi ll, to anchor the exposed sheet pile at the face of the dock. The composite soil and sheet pile structure behind the dock bulkhead face act as a high capacity structural unit. Six cranes working to install the Northern Extension of the Port of Anchorage. photo: GeorGe tipner With more than a decade of experience in Alaska, West Construction Company specializes in marine construction and recently fi nished three signifi cant local projects. “There have been signifi cant challenges [at the Port],” said Brad West, owner of WCC. “The good news is that we fi gured out the work could be installed as designed, and we successfully installed half a dozen cells last year and demolished a few that had past issues. Every sheet extracted was measured, recorded, photographed, catalogued, marked, stacked [and] cleaned.” Another signifi cant challenge was an extensive Marine Mammal Monitoring Program to protect beluga whales. “We had a full-time plan,” said West. If the whales came too near, WCC had to cease operations on any pile driving or water work. The construction budget for this phase of the project was around $30 million and work was completed in December 2010. 20 The Alaska conTrAcTor Spring 2011
SEWARD BREAKWATER EXTENSION In March 2010, WCC also began a $4.8 million project to shore up and extend the breakwater in Seward. “We had to take the nose off the existing breakwater and then tie into place the material. This was all constructed from barges because you couldn’t get to the site,” said West. photos: the al asKa sealife Center, universit y of al asKa anChor aGe and miCro speCialties inC. • 09.22.10 - The breakwater extension “breaks” the water line. • 10.28.10 - Excavator and barge placing rock on the breakwater extension. • 10.30.10 - First connection of the new extension with the existing breakwater. • 11.10.10 - Continued work with excavators and barge on the new breakwater extension. • 12.02.10 - Completed seamless extension of the breakwater. Marine construction in tough environments is what WCC is known for, but properly placing fi ll with an excavator from a fl oating barge is still no easy task. “We have a GPS system on our excavator so we always know exactly where the bucket is,” West said, but nonetheless the job proved diffi cult because the tolerances were extremely tight. “We were setting four-foot stone and the tolerance on the fi nished rock surface of the breakwater was minus zero plus six inches, so trying to fi t irregularly shaped 4-foot stones into that exact shape was a challenge,” West said. The project was completed in November 2010, and WCC worked with Brice Companies for the tug and barge, and TerraSond Limited provided surveying services. Spring 2011 The Alaska conTrAcTor 21
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