 | The Biggest, The Best and The Strangest of 2009... It's the first week of 2010, so we're taking one last look at the past year, and sharing some 'award-winning' projects we tackled with our valued customers and partners. Read on to hear more about some incredible achievements, teamwork and fabulous feats!  Our Biggest Milestone Owner: Michigan Department of Transportation Details: While working on the new bridge deck project on M-22, Elmer's Concrete poured its one-millionth yard of concrete in Traverse City!  Most Unique ProjectOwner: King's Challenge Golf Course Details: We pulverized and repaved the existing 8-foot wide cart paths, all while tiptoeing along the greens. We also rebuilt the tee box areas and changed the grades on the fairways. It was very nimble work for such heavy machinery!

 Biggest Hole Filled Owner: ITC Power
 Contractor: Total Foundations Details: We poured 90 yards of concrete into a large caisson "hole" for the Power Line Tower Foundation in Croton near the Newaygo-Freemont area. The trucks poured their contents in less than five minutes each to fill this crater.

  Deepest Hole Dug with an ExcavatorOwners: Lake County Road Commission & Conservation Resource Alliance Engineer: Wade Trim
 Details: We went digging 28 feet under Silver Creek River in Luther near Cadillac to set the foundation for an improved bridge box culvert and road crossing.

 The project as a whole helped preserve the trout and other wildlife in Silver Creek. Deepest Hole Dug with Scrapers & Largest Amount of Dirt Moved the Fastest Owner: Wexford County Landfill
 Details: Not only digging 60 feet with scrapers, but also moving 107,203 cubic yards of material in a mere 15 days was required to create this new landfill cell.
 Get a load of this: 100,000 yards of material covers a football field almost six stories high!

  Largest Amount of Dirt Moved Owner: Ottawa County Farms
 Details: Elmer's moved 390,698 cubic yards of material near Coopersville to create new landfill cells.

 That's a football field almost 24 stories high! Catch-Up Award & The Greenest Project
 Owner: GTB Turtle Creek Casino & Hotel Construction Manager: R. Clarke Associates Details: To ensure the least amount of impact to casino goers, the parking lot reconstruction and entrance relocation project started two weeks late and finished one week early. To save time, money and the environment, 10,000 yards of pulverized asphalt were recycled and used during this project. Shakiest & Most Unusual Sprayroq Project
  Owner: The City of Manistee
Engineer: Abonmarche
 Details: A 54-inch diameter brick storm water discharge structure was installed 20 feet below grade in the early 1900s on a path that runs under the railroad tracks and to the river. A sink hole developed next to the tracks from brick deterioration in the tunnel system. Elmer's replaced missing brick and coated it with Sprayroq to reinforce the structural integrity of the system. When the trains went speeding overhead, there was a whole lot of shaking going on!

  Tallest Crane Lift
 Owner: American Tower
 Contractor: Cell Air
 Details: Our crane lifted a cell tower 285 feet in St. Helen. We even notice better reception from here.
 Busiest Project of the Year - It's a three-way tie!

  Owner: Traverse City Area Public Schools
Engineer: Gosling Czubak Details: The West Middle School parking lots were completely redesigned for better traffic flow, which required eight weeks of multiple crew construction to finish the project on schedule. Owner: Glen's Market-Manistee  Contractor: Rohde ConstructionDetails: We used our creativity to transfer fill dirt across the road via a conveyor system. Due to sharp temperature declines, retaining wall builders lifted and placed two million pounds of versa-loc block to help the team stay warm!  Owner: GTB Turtle Creek Casino & HotelConstruction Manager: R Clarke Associates
 Details: Some of the weeks during this project had five separate crews working on various sections at the same time. Congratulations everyone and may your New Year be doubly productive! | |
