Tank Busters
A hospital in Houston, Texas, required its existing fire suppression system water tank removed. The steel tank was 9 feet tall and 25 feet in diameter with a layer of concrete ranging from 1 to 1.5 inches thick covering the inside surface. The tank was positioned on a 12-foot-tall concrete platform in the basement of the hospital building.
Cutting Class
A general contractor was told “shush” when it attempted to remove a substantial area of concrete from outside the library of a top-ranking university, so it called upon a specialist diamond driller to lead a class on low-noise demolition.
Berth Replacement
A specialty concrete sawing and drilling contractor was recently called to Port Manatee on the southeastern edge of Tampa Bay, Florida, to cut and remove a 600-foot-long, 44-foot-wide section of a 3-foot-thick concrete wharf and seawall.
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
A general contractor in New York was recently tasked with the in-depth inspection of the Brooklyn—Queens Expressway’s (BQE) triple cantilever bridge as part of a $1.7-billion reconstruction project.
The Main Men
A new 1,600-foot-long steel bridge had been open to traffic for several months before an oversight in its design was identified and needed immediate attention.
Back on Track
A skilled concrete cutting contractor worked under extreme pressure to get train services in England back on track after the side of a railway bridge collapsed onto an important rail route between London and the East Midlands region of the country.