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 […]
2nd Avenue 86th Street Subway Vertical Precast and Ceiling Support
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Under rapid schedule, we had to weave together a labyrinth of metals to do many functions. The framework had to support vertical precast panels, support a stainless steel grillework ceiling, and stabilize the fare array gate posts all while weaving around massive HVAC ductwork. The conceptual design drawings we had were but a […]
New York MTA Stairs
PROJECT DESCRIPTION In New York, there are hundreds of stairs constantly being built and maintained for the MTA. The key question in doing these types of jobs is “Who’s on first?” GC’s sometimes try to broadly separate out the “structural steel” from the “Misc. metals”. We need to get in and identify clearly which elements […]
Kennedale Balancing Reservoir Trash Racks
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The concept was rather simple and dirty here. Screens to filter trash out of water flowing through a reservoir. The missing pieces of the puzzle were how to create the grillework of stainless steel in the most economical fashion that would “get ‘er done” (as is our motto here in Texas!) This required […]
Laguardia Airport Terminal B Pedestrian Bridge Misc. Metals
PROJECT DESCRIPTION When Cody was invited to this job, most of the main packages of work had already been bought out. What was remaining were a few elements without which the job couldn’t be completed and some last minute items. In other words, the stuff that was harder to confront in terms of design! The […]
Piscataway Clarifiers. Piscataway WWTP, Maryland
PROJECT DESCRIPTION This was a challenge involving curved aluminum launders and baffles which wrap the inside of clarifiers in a waste water treatment plant. The launders carry cleaner water which flows off the top of the clarifier while the solids (sludge) sinks down to the bottom. The job needed to be built in a very […]
Harbor Bridge Fence Corpus Christi, TX
PROJECT DESCRIPTION This is a spectacular new bridge many years in the making. Much anticipated and greatly desired by the community it serves, media headlines have been calling attention to it. It will be an awesome and beautiful structure stretching into the skyline. It has a shared use path for bikers and pedestrians. Cody took […]
Buddy Bench
PROJECT DESCRIPTION A local Texas elementary school threw us the challenge of creating the “buddy bench” where a kid who’s lonely can sit down. When the lonely kid sits there, someone is supposed to come and sit next to him and give him some company. I’ve heard that it works! Economy was the key factor, […]
Javits Sun Clouds Canopy
PROJECT DESCRIPTION We worked directly with the architect during the design phase on this unique job. Initially we helped her explore concepts of stainless steel bar grating sunshades, suggested custom cut patterns of aluminum plates, and tossed around some different ideas. In the end the architect went with “blade” type of louvers of extruded aluminum. […]
New York MTA Fare Array Gates
PROJECT DESCRIPTION When we were working on the 86th Street 2nd Avenue subway station we embraced the challenge of creating intricate fare array gates. These have to be operated from the agent booth for automatically opening gates for the disabled. They require separate key switches for fire department and police department, and magnetic locks. At […]
