Lake Isabella Dam
For our customer Flatiron/ Dragados, we built galvanized steel stairs and railings on this unique army corps of engineers project in Lake Isabella CA. We learned much about anchoring into granite rock for one of the stairs which had to be fastened to such. The beautiful and mysterious serpentine weir built by Flatiron prevents floods […]
Essex
PROJECT DESCRIPTION For Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties pump station in New Jersey, we had to decipher cryptic design drawings. The intent was to create “Fillets” which are sections of plate arranged like pyramids and baffles to prevent the swirling around of vortexes of water which could affect the performance of the massive […]
RFK Pedestrian Bridge Fence
PROJECT DESCRIPTION This pedestrian bridge fence for the RFK Bridge in New York uses curved, sloped wire mesh which leans inward. We helped the designer, COWI to develop some details of the fence. The challenge was to roll the mesh while sloping it. We had to try different wire mesh types and methods of rolling […]
Tide Gates Gratings
PROJECT DESCRIPTION These are heavy duty gratings that need to handle trucks driving over them. The segments of grating are hard to lift, so they had to be as small as practicable. A design was needed that would allow the grating to lay flat on the asphalt when it was opened so that it wouldn’t […]
Sacramento Regional WWTP (Echowater) Project
Cody Builders Supply provided 2.9 million dollars of misc. metals for the Sacramento Regional WWTP (Echowater) project. The scope included all the metals in Spec section 5 to include: stainless steel built-up tube baffles, grating, roof joist, including stairs, platforms, & railings that were designed and engineered by us. Coordination with the grating and railing […]
Hinkle Reservoir
Liner and cover replacement in Granite Bay, CA. We created a sloping stainless steel rack to support the new cover over this reservoir for the San Juan Water District. There were multiple compound sloping surface which made it a geometry puzzle. The metal framework we built fit perfectly with very little field adjustment required. This […]
Noman Cole ASE Bulkheads
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Heart surgery for a water treatment plant was needed. The customer needed to block off certain water channels in a specific sequence in order to replace equipment in the plant. We developed a strategy and designs for the bulkhead gates needed. PROJECT GALLERY Click to Enlarge PROJECT GALLERY Tap to Enlarge
East River Greenway Sea Rails
East River Greenway Sea Rails in Manhattan, NY. We provided nearly one mile of picket fence for this new park/ jogging path built into the East river. Read more: EDC.NYChttps://edc.nyc/project/east-midtown-waterfront New York Yimbyhttps://newyorkyimby.com/2023/03/east-midtown-greenway-nears-completion-along-the-sutton-place-waterfront-in-midtown-manhattan.html
Brushy Creek WWTP 2023
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Brushy Creek WWTP 2023 in Round Rock Texas had unique challenges for odor control covers. These covers needed to minimize the smells of the sewage in the treatment process. We had to move support beams around a labyrinth of slide gates, stop logs, and bar screens. At Sludge Tank No. 3 we proposed […]
Mountain Tunnel Bulkhead Doors
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Mountain Tunnel supplies water to San Fransisco from the mountain range east of the city. Along the tunnel, new bulkhead doors were needed to access the tunnel. They have to hold back hundreds of thousand pounds of water. The challenge was creating steel welded connections which consumed months of welding time and […]