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Barnard Construction
OnSite
Fall 2015
P e o p le b u ild in g f o r P e o p le .
Making Progress on the Keeyask Generating Station
Construction of the Spillway Cofferdam at Keeyask continues with
placement of internal impervious fill within the armoring that now
keeps the lower Nelson River south of the jobsite. At right, the
Keeyask earthmoving truck fleet stands ready for the next shift.
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early 1,000 km north of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
our team constructing the 695 MW Keeyask
Generating Station Project has put summer weather to good use. With aggressive scheduling and hard work during
this second season of construction, we have furthered the powerhouse and service bay excavation to the point where we
are on track and excited about the opportunity to place concrete this fall, six months ahead of the original schedule. To be in
this position, our Team of BBE Hydro Constructors LP (Bechtel Barnard and EllisDon) has procured, installed and tested our
concrete and aggregate systems, including a concrete plant capable of producing roughly 300 m3 per hour. Excavation crews
at the powerhouse site set new records this summer, hauling out 10,000 m3 in one day shift and 8,000 m3 in a single night
shift. Temporary structures that include 16 km of haul roads and nine cofferdams are mostly in place, directing the powerful
lower Nelson River just south of its original path to allow for construction in the dry. We are constructing this seven-year
project for Manitoba Hydro under a Design-Assist, Shared Risk contract with Hatch as Design Engineer.
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Smithland Hydroelectric
Project
Lake Mead L3PS Project
Notables
Meet Our New Employees
A Day at Owens Lake
Wedding Bells
Barnard’s “Next Generation”
Turbine Assembly Ongoing at Smithland Hydro
notables
In mid-August,
Muskrat Falls
Corporation selected
Barnard Pennecon
LP, as contractor to
construct its significant
North and South
Dams at the Muskrat
Falls hydroelectric
project near Goose
Bay, Labrador.
On Sept. 11, the
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers awarded
Barnard a $197 million
contract to construct
the C-44 Reservoir
and Stormwater
Treatment Area (STA)
Project in Martin
County, Florida.
On Sept. 14, 2015,
Barnard-D.A. Collins
JV’s Gilboa Dam
Rehabilitation
Project received
the Assn. of State
Dam Safety Officials
(ASDSO) 2015
National Rehabilitation
Project of the Year
Award. Congrats to
owner, New York City
Dept. of Environmental
Protection, on this
important project!
Barnard now ranks as
#39 among U.S. Top
200 Environmental
Firms, as reported by
Engineering NewsRecord in its Aug.
10/17, 2015, issue.
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t the 72 MW Smithland
Hydroelectric Project,
work continues as our
Barnard Team prepares to install
three 24 MW horizontal Voith
bulb turbines in this watertight
facility. In the pipe shop
built onsite, pipefitting crews
fabricate the complex pipe
system to be used to provide
cooling, oil and air supply to
the turbines in the powerhouse.
The three 221,000-pound
emergency gates have been Crews set the first section of the emergency closure gates in the
Smithland powerhouse.
set in their draft tube slots. The
bulkhead gates have also been dry-fit in draft tube slots. Installation work on the intake bulkhead
gates is currently underway with the gates currently set in one of three slots. The completion of
the gate work is expected by the end of September. The remaining work in the powerhouse will
be constructed behind these gates after the cofferdam is filled so that dredging can begin. Once
the plant is complete, the gates will facilitate the control of water flow so that maintenance can
take place inside the powerhouse.
Other craft work continues and site work has begun with the pre-breach excavation within the
cofferdam of the upstream and downstream sides of the powerhouse. Electrical and HVAC
work also are in full swing. Major concrete work wrapped up with placement of the roof slab
for the entrance building. Barnard is the Construction Manager for American Municipal Power,
Inc. (AMP), a nonprofit corporation serving 132 member utilities in nine states. On this project,
we’re also the Contractor on the TG installation, supported at present by subcontractor Barnhart
Crane & Rigging Co., performing the site heavy-haul transport of the turbine components. The
project was designed by MWH Americas, Inc.
Underground Design Complete at Lake Mead
O
n May 21, 2015, Barnard added a challenging tunneling project to our roster: the
Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Low Lake Level Pumping Station (L3PS) Project for
the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). This complex tunnel and pump station
Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) project near Las Vegas involves excavation of a
525-ft.-deep, 26-ft. ID access shaft; a new horseshoe-shaped forebay cavern, roughly
33 ft. wide by 36 ft. deep by 400 ft. long; and 34-each steel-lined, 6-ft.-diameter, 500-ft.deep well shafts, each of which will house a 30 MGD submersible pump. Surface work
includes the above-ground pumping facilities needed to pump the water from the deep
water intake to water users in the greater Las Vegas area. This is Barnard’s fourth project
for SNWA. Our work began immediately with a Pre-Construction Services contract
contributing to completion of a 50 percent design with Design Engineer MW/Hill, a joint
venture of MWH Americas and CH2M Hill, SNWA and its Construction Manager, Parsons
Corp. Underground construction begins this fall while the above-ground design work
progresses.
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Meet Our New Employees
Kenneth Beas,
Project Engineer
Cal Poly Pomona
University
B.S., Construction
Engineering Technology
PG&E Team
Dustin Maslonka,
Vice President Power
Transmission Group
30 years in Power
Transmission
Home Office
Terry Swindle,
Safety Manager
36 years Underground;
15 in Safety Education
Lake Mead Team
Nicholas Calogero,
Project Engineer
Clarkson University
B.S., Engineering
Management
PG&E Team
Eli Mergens,
Project Engineer
Colorado State University
B.S., Construction
Management
Barren Ridge Team
Shane Strozzi,
Project Engineer
Montana Tech
B.S., Civil Engineering
Estimating, Home Office
Alex Casilla,
Quality Control
Engineer
University of the Philippines
B.S., Chemical Engineering
Eisenhower Johnson
Memorial Tunnels Team
Joerg Moser,
Project Manager
University of Applied
Science, Constance,
Germany
B.S., Civil Engineering
Lake Mead Team
Drew Slauenwhite,
Regional Manager,
Power Transmission
28 years in Power
Transmission
Home Office
Brandon Davis,
Project Engineer
University of Tennessee
Chattanooga
B.S., Engineering
Management
Owens Lake Team
Kurtis Proudfoot,
Project Engineer
Montana State University
B.S., Civil Engineering
Keeyask Team
Max Troutman,
Project Engineer
University of Mississippi
B.S., Geological
Engineering
TVA Team
Austin Fennell,
Project Engineer
Middle Tennessee State
University
B.S., Concrete Project
Management
Smithland Hydro Team
Jacob Richardson,
Safety Educator
Central Washington
University
B.S., Safety and Health
Management
Lake Mead Team
Devin Weekley,
Project Engineer
Colorado School of Mines
B.S., Mining Engineering
Lake Mead Team
Mike Klonica,
Project Engineer
Purdue University
B.S., Building Construction
Management
PG&E Team
Marc Salgado,
Project Engineer
San Francisco State
University
B.S., Civil Engineering
Owens Lake Team
Leo Weiman,
Project Engineer
Colorado School of Mines
B.S., Mining Engineering
Lake Mead Team
Ruben Lundsten,
Project Engineer
Montana State University
B.S., Mechanical
Engineering
PG&E Team
Aaron Sessions,
Project Engineer
Montana Tech
B.S., General Engineering
Owens Lake Team
Nick Wooden,
Project Engineer
Boise State University
B.S., Construction
Management
PG&E Team
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An Equal Opportunity
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A Day on the Lakebed
Wedding Bells
Ryan Spence and Codie Hughes were married on July
18, 2015, in Lincoln, Montana.
Barnard’s “Next Generation”
Baby girl born to Jerrod Deitchler and Lindsay Perkins.
Nova Lynn Angel Deitchler was born on Aug. 2, 2015,
weighing 5 lbs. 6 oz.
Baby boy born to Shane and Meghan Strozzi.
Colby James Strozzi was born on June 12, 2015,
weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz.
Our fleet of quad tracks fires up recently, preparing for the day’s
earthwork in Area T16 on the Owens Lake lakebed in Southern
California. The Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Phase 7a Project
nears completion this fall. We’re constructing this project for the Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power with design work provided
by CDM Smith.