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Five Strategically Located Facilities SPIRAL WELD STEEL PIPE PILING Manufactured by Northwest Pipe. Delivered by L.B. Foster. Northwest Pipe Co. manufactures spiral weld steel pipe piling at five ISO Certified production facilities located nationwide to provide prompt material delivery to the most remote construction sites. Three of the Northwest mills are also API certified. Northwest Pipe will soon open two new steel pipe mills with approximate yearly capacity of 150,000 tons each. L.B. Foster Piling and Northwest Pipe Co. work together as strategic partners to provide quality spiral weld steel pipe piling for the most demanding projects. This experienced team can accommodate the widest variety of job specifications and deliver from production facilities located throughout the United States. Pipe piling is readily available from these strategically located mills in sizes ranging from 18" to 156" OD and 0.188" to 1.00" wall thicknesses. Shipping is available by truck, rail and barge. Quality piling from L.B. Foster and Northwest Pipe is ideal for: • Bridges • Terminals • Caissons • Piers • Marinas • Offshore platforms
The Harvey Canal Project: Saving Time, Saving Money and Saving Lives For years, more than 200,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish have been at risk. Their only flood protection from a major canal on the Gulf Intracoastal Water Way has been a short earthen levee or bulkheads the property owners built themselves. “It’s caused us nightmares,” says Giuseppe Miserendino, executive director of the West Jefferson Levee District. “After this hurricane season, we won’t have to worry about it.” That’s because crews are finishing a $250 million steel and concrete floodwall along the Harvey Canal that’ll rise 19 feet above land – more than twice as tall as the earthen levee and far more solid. The floodwall will stretch more than 3 miles, and besides potentially saving lives, it’s also been an award-winning lesson in saving time and money. Building a T-wall Designs for the Harvey Canal project called for a T-wall (built like an inverted T). A total of about 30,000 yards of concrete will be set atop 7,800 steel H-piles, some of which are as long as 140 feet. To install piles that long, contractors would normally get the pile delivered in two pieces, install the bottom half, then splice on the top. For this project, though, that would have been too expensive and taken too much time. The crews at Cajun Deep Foundations, a subsidiary of specialty contractor Cajun Industries, developed a second option. They asked Nucor-Yamato Steel to roll the piles at full length. All told, more than 1 million linear feet of HP14 x 89 piles will be used. About 900 piles still needed to be spliced, but with a project that required a total of 7,800 piles, Cajun’s idea saved nearly $8 million in splicing costs alone, says Chris Thompson, a Cajun project manager. And that doesn’t include the savings from getting the work done so much quicker. “That amount,” Thompson says, “far exceeds the $8 million saved from splicing.” The solution helped the Army Corps of Engineers sus- • Q4 • 2009 71
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