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Atlanta Spares No Expense on $147M High School By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
A high-rise once occupied by IBM employees is now filled with thousands of students in Buckhead, Ga. Atlanta Public Schools purchased the building, along with 57 wooded acres, for the new North Atlanta High School, which opened recently. The first to offer the International Baccalaureate program in the Southeast, North Atlanta High School is also the most expensive public school in the state’s history. With a total construction cost of $147 million, the campus includes a 900-space parking lot, a food-court inspired cafeteria and an indoor ROTC gun range that required specific lighting and the strategic placement of targets with the proper clearance. New data, voice and video systems, mechanical controls, a fire alarm and security systems, along with updated plumbing, paint and flooring. Civil Site Services Inc. (CSSi) of Fayetteville, Ga., performed the site work
and utilities on the project, under the supervision of general contractor JE Dunn Construction. “This project consisted of renovating an 11-story building into a high school, and demolishing a second building that was nine stories,” said Brent Benson, project manager of CSSi. “Atlanta Demolition imploded the existing building and hauled it off site to another location. It was crushed and recyCSSi photo cled. The building that was demolished is Crews moved roughly 145,000 cu. yds. now the location for the gym at North (110,860.5 cu m) of material. Atlanta High School.” Atlanta Demolition had to first separate said Barry Roberts, owner of Atlanta the two office buildings, which were con- Demolition. “This was a project where nected by a four-story pedestrian bridge over nobody believed we could meet the projecta small lake. Crews also had to remove all ed schedule, and we beat it by one week. Our the materials containing asbestos before employees deserve the credit for completing imploding the structure, all while leaving the a project that some of our competitors would other building completely intact. not even bid. “Cutting and removing eight levels of sky “The sky bridges were cut with wire saws bridges and chopping a 60-foot section of 10 and lifted out in 15-foot sections with a full levels to gain separation for the implo- crane. The building was chopped using sion were the most challenging aspects,” see SCHOOL page 8
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The operator installs a concrete storm drain using the John Deere 330 excavator.
I-75 Interchange Marks Beginning of Major Road Projects By Eric Olson CEG CORRESPONDENT
(L-R): David West, grading superintendent of Sunbelt Structures; Matt Rutledge, project manager; and James Chester, bridge and concrete superintendent talk about the job.
Work crews are currently rehabilitating an old interchange on Interstate 75 just south of Calhoun. No big news there, right? Well, upon closer inspection, that fairly routine road work appears to signal the beginning of what is destined to be just the first part of a major new road project in northcentral Georgia, designed to lighten traffic congestion in the area and help move local commerce more efficiently.
The interchange rehab contract, worth more than $16 million, will include the installation of a new four-lane bridge over the interstate, as well as wider on and off ramps. The updated interchange is at the intersection of I-75 and Union Grove Road in southern Gordon County, just a few miles south of Calhoun at Exit 309. The interstate connects Chattanooga, Tenn., in the north with Atlanta, Ga., to the south. Although the Union Grove Road project is not labeled as such, the work is really the first section of the proposed South Calhoun Bypass
project, according to Matt Rutledge, project manager of Sunbelt Structures Inc., a general contracting firm based in Tucker, Ga. That larger project will not begin until at least 2015, but when finished will connect two ends of nearby Georgia Highway 53 south of Calhoun. Highway 53 approaches Calhoun from Rome to the southwest, before turning east away from Calhoun. The approximately $29.5 million bypass will be 6.8 mi. (10.9 km) in length and will utilize the new Union Grove Road/I-75 intersee I-75 page 2
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Span Set to Open Four Lanes of Traffic Across Interstate Rutledge said that his company doesn’t usually self-perform the majority of the work on its projects, but because there was so much concrete paving to do on this project, they had little need for other firms to help. His firm doesn’t do asphalt paving, though, which is a large part of most state road contracts. The tiny amount of asphalt work done, he said, is a 3 in. (7.6 cm) layer under the ramps that is required by the federal government. It is being applied by a subcontractor.
I-75 from page 1
change. Project Should Ease Congestion Rutledge’s firm is building the new interchange at Union Grove Road largely to handle an increasing amount of truck traffic in the area. Due to a new, 1.4 million-sq. ft. (130,064 sq m) Lowe’s Distribution Center in nearby Rome, Tenn., as well as a thriving carpet industry in Calhoun, truck traffic has made wider roads a necessity in the area. In particular Rutledge said, trucks need wider access points in and around the interstate. “We are extending the on and off ramps to handle the increased capacity and that means we will have ramps that are over a half-mile long,” Rutledge said. “Calhoun is such a huge hub for the carpet industry and rehabbing Union Grove Road will go a long way to alleviating that congestion. “In addition, this new Lowe’s warehouse is a tremendous facility, possibly Lowe’s largest distribution facility, and they are really just starting to ramp up the work there, so over the next few years it is going to continue to grow at a huge pace. This road work needs to get done to help alleviate the traffic problem on Highway 53.” Work Continues Despite Rain Rutledge and his company began work on the Union Grove Road/I-75 interchange in July 2012 and are scheduled to have the project finished by October 2014. Mother Nature, however, has done its best to upset that timetable. “North Georgia just experienced a very,
A Cat 12M motorgrader with GPS-guided machine control technology is used for fine grading of the on ramps and off ramps.
very wet spring and summer,” Rutledge said. “It has been a rough year for everybody around here and it absolutely slowed us down. We were not able to move earth the way we should have been able to move it in a typical Georgia summer.” He added that his crews had about 350,000 cu. yds. (267,594.2 cu m) of material to place on this job and despite the weather, they have been able to do about 70 percent of that work through a Herculean effort.
Crews complete ditch paving work on the project using a Cat 329DL excavator.
“I have to commend my guys for that,” Rutledge said. “We have some good people working here.” Project Is Sunbelt Structures’ Show Sunbelt Structures is performing the lion’s share of the work itself, which includes all the grading work, the underground utilities and the concrete work, which includes about 100,000 sq. yds. (83,612.7 sq m) of concrete paving on the roads.
This portable Thomas concrete plant was assembled next to Interstate 75 near mile marker 309 specifically for the concrete required for this job.
Updated Bridge, Updated Roads Rutledge said the main work on the interchange has been in replacing the old twolane bridge that carries Union Grove Road over I-75. His crews are currently in the process of finishing the first half of the bridge and when that is completed, they will shift two-lane traffic onto the new half, before demolishing the old bridge. Sunbelt Structures brought in a subcontractor to help set the bridge beams before resuming work on getting that half of the span ready for vehicle traffic. When the second half of the bridge is finished and joined onto the first half, which will happen sometime next year, four lanes of traffic will travel across the interstate. The new span will pass more than six lanes of interstate traffic, as well as two wide outside shoulders and a grass median. Rutledge said the new bridge will be about 110 ft. (33.5 m) long and approximately 50 ft. (15.2 m) wide. The bridge deck will be about 4.5 ft. (1.4 m) higher than the old see I-75 page 4
The operator uses a Cat D5K XL to level sub-base material for compaction.
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GUCA Hosts 2013 Autumn Quarterly Meeting, Trade Show Georgia Utility Contractors Association Inc. (GUCA) hosted its 2013 fall quarterly meeting and trade show on Oct. 24 at the Loudermilk Center in Atlanta, Ga. More than 100 GUCA members registered to attend this year’s fall quarterly meeting and trade show with 17 trade show tables by GUCA associate members. The day started off with Education Seminars from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sessions included Understanding and Using Mobile Tech Applications for the Construction Industry by Rob McKinney of J.M. Wilkerson Construction; using GA811 Mobile App by Isaac Weathers of GA811; Drug Testing Procedures and Reporting for Motor Carrier Compliance by Karen Tinker of The Council on Alcohol and Drugs; Building Information Modeling (BIM), Is It Right for Your Company? by Marcus Martin, Dario Petric and Daniel Smith of Smith Carter; and, New NPDES Construction Stormwater Permit Review by Frank Carubba of EPD Watershed Protection Division. The trade show featured exhibitors representing a variety of different types of suppliers and vendors in the utility construction industry. Those participating in the trade show included 3M Corporation, Advanced Drainage Systems, Bairstow Lifting Products, Bensource LLC, Bobcat of Atlanta, Flint Equipment Company, Flowtite, Georgia 811, Georgia Health Plan Trust, Georgia Southern
Univeristy, H&H Insurance Services Inc., HB Training & Consulting, Southern Polytechnic State University, StormTrap, Trench Shoring Services, U.S. Traffic Technologies, and United Rentals Trench Safety. Students were on hand to receive GUCA scholarships. Matthew Leonard, a senior at Georgia Southern University, majoring in construction management, and Brian Hogue, a senior at Southern Polytechnic State University, majoring in construction management, each received a $1,700 scholarship award. Keynote speaker, Economist Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Georgia State University updated the members on the 2014 economic forecast, which he stated was still uncertain but expected to be slow until 2015. He mentioned China was a big economic indicator for the U.S. and that the shutdown had many negative repercussions. He said he wasn’t expecting another shutdown contrary to popular belief. The GUCA quarterly meeting is a place where contractors and associates can get together to meet each other in a setting other than the office or a job site. For more information visit www.guca.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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Rutledge Says Cat AccuGrade Simplifies Precision Grading I-75 from page 2
bridge, he said. While that work is going on, crews are also working on widening and reshaping Union Grove Road itself. Work is progressing on turning the two-lane road into a four-lane parkway as far as threequarters of a mile both east and west of the new bridge. Near the interstate on ramps, as many as eight lanes will be built to accommodate turn lanes and any future development, Rutledge said. In addition, two new intersections are being built on either side of the interstate where Union Grove Road meets a pair of county roads.
The operator uses a Cat 329EL excavator and a Terex TA25 artic combo to relocate material for the northbound off-ramp.
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Crews Transform IBM Building Into Functional School SCHOOL from page 1
mini-excavators with 500-foot pound hammers. It took about 90 days to separate the structures.” The implosion took place in late October 2012, although crews started work at the job site in July. After the demolition, all that remained was a concrete shell. The building was completely gutted using labor and miniexcavators. “This was a very technical and difficult project with all operators working at height,” said Roberts. “Safety items were reviewed constantly to insure safety of the workers. The project required approximately 300 pounds of explosives placed into more than 900 holes drilled into the concrete supports of the structure.” One hundred percent of the concrete and rebar was recycled, with crews hauling away 32,000 cu. yds. (24,465.8 cu m) of concrete. The existing IBM building underwent a total renovation, making way for classrooms, labs and dining space. In addition, offices were installed within the structure. The building straddles a four-acre lake that is 30 ft. (9.1 m) deep at the dam. CSSi had to modify the existing OCS that was in the lake by adding a 4 x 6 ft. (1.2 x 1.8 m) square concrete riser that will control the rate of flow that leaves the lake during rain events. “Charles Allender, the president of CSSi, has been in the business for almost 30 years, and called this one of the toughest — if not the toughest — sites he’s ever been involved with,” said Roberts. “We encountered roughly 8,000 cubic yards of trench rock and 55,000 cubic yards of mass rock. All of this rock we had to blast. The company we used was Precision Blasting. “We also encountered several thousand
cubic yards of dirt that had boulders and tree debris mixed in it. We used a Caterpillar 963 loader with a root rake to sift through the dirt and separate the trash and rock. The tree debris was hauled off site and the rock was crushed on site.” Crews rented several crushers to shatter 60,000 cu. yds. (45,873.3 cu m) of rock. “At one point, we had three crushers on site and two Caterpillar 330 hoe rams to help with the processing,” said Benson. “All the rock that was crushed was used on site to backfill retaining walls and for structural fill.” A gymnasium/auditorium, football field, baseball field, practice field, softball field and tennis courts were part of the new construction. Preparing the grounds was a difficult task. “When the project started, we knew there was 25,000 cubic yards of rock that had to be blasted and excavated from the new gym location and a small amount of rock in the football field,” said Benson. “When the actual excavation began, we encountered 13,500 cubic yards of rock on the football field, 5,000 cubic yards of rock on the practice field, 3,000 cubic yards of rock on the baseball field, 1500 cubic yards of rock on the softball field and 800 cubic yards of rock on the tennis courts. This is beyond the 25,000 cubic yards of rock in the basement of the new gym. Along with the rock we hauled off, there was approximately 6,000 cubic yards of unsuitable dirt consisting of tree trash and miscellaneous organics.” Equipment used on the construction and renovation project included Caterpillar 963 track loaders, Metso crushers, a Cat 988 wheel loader, Volvo A25 and A30 off-road trucks, a Cat D8N dozer, Volvo 460 excava-
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CSSi crews use a Cat 345B to backfill in between the columns at the gymnasium.
tors, a Cat 345 excavator, a John Deere 544J wheel loader, a Cat 815 compactor, a Cat D5M, Cat D6, D5 and D4 dozers, Cat 259B skid steers, Cat mini-excavators and Cat D300 and 250 off-road trucks. “We moved on site roughly 145,000 cubic yards of material. Out of that material, 100,000 cubic yards had to be crushed, screened or raked before we could place it into its final location,” said Benson. Materials installed on site included 4,500 linear ft. (1,371.6 m) of concrete storm pipe, 1,500 linear ft. (457.2 m) of ductile and PVC storm pipe, 650 ft. (198.1 m) of concrete precast, 1,500 linear ft. (457.2 m) of ductile iron sanitary sewer pipe, 2,500 linear ft. (762 m) of ductile iron water pipe and 500 linear ft.
(152 m) of copper water pipe. CSSi staffed the project with roughly 25 men for a six-month period and worked seven days a week to meet the set schedule. Despite all the obstacles, Benson is proud to have been a part of the process. “It was definitely a challenge,” said Benson. “The interesting part was being involved in a project that includes only the fourth high school in the country that is more than five stories.” Jere Smith, director of capital improvements of Atlanta Public Schools, believes students at North Atlanta High are making the transition fairly smoothly. “I'm sure there’s some adjustment, but see SCHOOL page 10
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Crews remove debris at the North Atlanta High School job site.
Crews use a John Deere 330 excavator and a Cat D6 dozer to sift through the rock for the Metso crusher.
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Students Make Transition to 11-Story Building Smoothly SCHOOL from page 8
they came from a five-story building,” said Smith. “Most of them are urban kids, so it’s not a dramatic change, although they will probably be using the elevators a lot more in the new location.” In the existing building, the main lobby was only slightly altered, although cubicle areas on other floors had to be removed entirely as part of the dramatic makeover. Because work on the second building won’t be completed until December, students have to adapt. “That’s where the gymnasiums will be located, so some students are being bussed to their old school until construction is done,” said Smith. “The music room, graphic arts and theater areas are in the new building as well, which also has an assembly space that is still being worked on. The football field is complete, but the players are having to use locker rooms set up in temporary trailers.” The new two-story structure honors the CSSi photo
The operator of the Cat 345 loads a Volvo A25 and A30 during the earth moving and grading process.
architecture of the existing structure with concrete columns and concrete trellis. “It blends well, said Smith. “With a project like this, it’s not so much about the buildings. This is a somewhat traditional high school in a unique setting. Sure, you have to have a roof over your head, but this is ultimately about being surrounded by rocks, water, wild animals and hardwood trees. “I’ve had my eye on this property for years, so it’s wonderful to have a vision, lay out a plan and see it come to fruition, thanks to the hard work of a lot of dedicated people.
We’re still getting reaction to the new school, but, so far, it’s been good, and everyone seems very excited. Yes, it was an expensive project, but being able to transition this space into a high school on such a tight schedule is pretty remarkable. ” Buckhead students, grades 9-12, attend the new facility. Plans are in place to convert the old campus into a middle school. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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The operator installs a concrete storm drain using the John Deere 330 excavator.
One hundred percent of the concrete and rebar was recycled, with crews hauling away 32,000 cu. yds. (24,465.8 cu m) of concrete.
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