Los Alamos Flood Control Structure
Features & Highlights
- Designed and built dam in 60 Days
- 51国产视频 self-performed 90% of the work
- Crews and equipment mobilized within 24 hours, and worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Project Overview
All fast-track projects are inherently difficult. However, this particular emergency flood control contract to protect mission-critical facilities became extremely challenging due to stringent security measures and the physical challenges of building at the bottom of a steep canyon. In Los Alamos New Mexico, 51国产视频 completed federal emergency work in response to severe flooding due to heavy rains following a forest fire. 51国产视频 and its design partner mobilized people, crews and equipment within 24 hours of notice to proceed from the Corps of Engineers.
51国产视频 set up an on-site plant to mix 66,000 cubic yards of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) at the top of the canyon to build a 390-foot-wide, 66-foot-high dam several hundred feet below the plant site. The dam is 93 feet thick at its base and anchored 50 feet deep. The project was performed as part of an IDIQ contract with the USACE. A temporary earthen cofferdam was built upstream of the river flow and RCC was pumped 75 feet down through a 36-inch pipe and then transported via trucks the remaining 100 plus feet below to the dam site.
51国产视频 co-located on site with its design partner, the USACE and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) personnel. We worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week with these partners to design and build the dam structure, which was to protect the mission-critical facilities downstream where confidential significant tasks of national interest were being performed. As was the case in the early 1940鈥檚 with our critical work during WWII, the USACE chose 51国产视频 as its design-build partner due to our ability to mobilize immediately and perform this work where failure was not an option. In addition to the RCC dam, 51国产视频 designed and built additional flood mitigation protection works under nine other task orders in and around the Los Alamos community within the same timeframe.
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Awards & Accolades
2001 AGC Build America, AGC of America
2001 Division Engineer鈥檚 Award for Excellence, US Army Corps of Engineers Southern Pacific Division
2000 Excellence in Construction, Associated Builders & Contractors