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New Biological Sciences Building Involves Tight Site Work By Peter Hildebrandt CEG CORRESPONDENT

Requiring just about everyone to take a certain course is one way to end up needing a new college campus building. Georgia Southern University (GSU) in Statesboro, Ga., has as one of its graduation requirements for approximately 90 percent of its majors, completion of at least one course in biology during the college careers of students enrolled there. The growth in enrollment also has meant the biology department itself has had to expand to keep up with the needs of the university. Since the campus population has been steadily growing, with record enrollment levels in the past few years, so has the demand for space for all those students to do their coursework in biology. The new Biological Sciences building on the GSU campus should soon be able to help that space problem. The old biology building will still be used for classroom space so there will be no demolition work involved on this building. Expected increases in enrollment are projected to continue over the upcoming years. “The building alone will not house the entire biology department at GSU but it will drastically increase the area they’ll have with more advanced classroom facilities and additional research and student labs,” said Bonnie D. McMakin, program manager Facilities Planning, Design and Construction, Georgia Southern University. “The old biology building will not be torn down. We’ll need it for the classroom space and for the

At the moment Brasfield & Gorrie, General Contractors, with corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., is the main contractor on the project, in addition to a grading contractor onsite.

increasing number of students attending GSU. Some of it may still be used by the biology department and anything not used by them will be renovated and made usable for regular classroom space. It has to be in really bad shape for us to tear a building down; we try to renovate buildings whenever we can. We have no room to tear anything down and just do away with it, the need is so great. We are a growing campus we’re proud to say.” Unfortunately the area cleared for the new biological sciences building was one of the last wood-

ed sites remaining on the GSU campus, according to McMakin. They were, however, able to maintain the trees around the site; they only cleared what they had to clear to make way for the building. The new building and its construction will not impact the student traffic flow on campus either as the building is on the edge of the university grounds in the direction that new growth for the school is moving anyway. This construction will not disrupt any ongoing classes through the end of its completion. Georgia Southern University’s goal is to attain LEED Silver

Certification for the building. “Our campus standards already incorporate a lot of the energy savings features as far as mechanical, electrical and plumbing features,” added McMakin. “That makes it even easier to achieve the LEED Certification for the building. The roof will be constructed and outfitted for the infrastructure for solar voltaic power at some point. But it will be installed at a later time, due to budgetary constraints. Hopefully in the future we will be able to add solar energy components.” The building will have three

main floors in addition to a fourth floor dedicated solely to mechanical equipment and controls. Total net square footage of the building is 125,595 sq. ft. (11,668 sq m). The building project started out in one building and they were actually designing it for different phases depending upon what funding was available. But now they’re definitely able to get the work completed in one phase. “The actual building design has evolved, due to value engineering, to stay within budget, into four separate structures,” added McMakin. “The main building will have a separate greenhouse; a field house which consists of the animal care facility and also a central energy plant adjacent to this structure.” At the moment Brasfield & Gorrie, General Contractors, with corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., is the main contractor on the project, in addition to a grading contractor onsite. Brasfield & Gorrie’s closest office to the site is in Kenesaw, Ga., just north of Atlanta. The grading work is being done by Sikes Brothers Inc. in Metter, Ga., ten miles from Statesboro. John Fulford, project manager of Brasfield & Gorrie, has been onsite since 2009; the entire job is projected to be completed by May 2013. “The biggest challenge on this job is simply going to be that it’s a very tight site making it tough to move around with the equipment we’ll be using,” explained Fulford. “It’s going to present trials just to be able to work your way around the building. “As far as site excavation work, all of that work is going to be done see GSU page 2

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before things ever really get tight on this site. The really tricky thing is going to be doing the crane work and especially moving the mobile crane we have onsite, all around the site. We’re going to have to use smaller equipment that can maneuver in some smaller spaces and on some slopes as they go about feeding materials to the places where there are guys up on the scaffolding doing things such as the brickwork.” Brasfield & Gorrie has its own equipment shop and own all of its

toughest things building-wise you’d ever want to construct; it’s right up there with hospitals. The mechanical-electrical-plumbing (MEP) systems are extremely complex.” On Oct. 31, 2011 Sikes Brothers Inc. started clearing the five acres of the site. They worked for about four days. Once that area was cleared out, during that same week they started the grading work which as of December 2011 was 75 to 80 percent complete onsite. “At present there are some changes on the utilities of the proj-

“Labs are actually some of the toughest things building-wise you’d ever want to construct; it’s right up there with hospitals. The mechanical-electricalplumbing (MEP) systems are extremely complex.” John Fulford Brasfield & Gorrie

power cranes. The excavating equipment is owned by the excavating company involved on this job. There is a Komatsu 350 excavator onsite as well as a Komatsu 220 excavator. “We’re only moving approximately 14,000 cubic yards of dirt,” said Fulford. “Everything in South Georgia is pretty flat so there isn’t a great deal of excavating or soil removal involved with this project. The soil onsite is sandy clay in composition. The footprint of this building is some 34,000 square feet.” This is a $32.4 million dollar project, according to Fulford. The job was on hold for a brief period during the summer of 2012. But those issues were worked out and the project is going forth on schedule now. “This is the type of work we like to do at Brasfield & Gorrie,” added Fulford. “We have several divisions at our company, covering everything from commercial work to healthcare and the research division that I’m in. We focus especially on higher education university work, lab stations and private schools. Our work in the past has featured a lot of university work with a great deal of lab work. “Labs are actually some of the

ect involved,” said Tim Lanier, project manager of Sikes Brothers Inc. “We started on that work dealing with changes in the electrical engineering on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. This wasn’t anything major, just some minor issues with some drainage boxes — such as those for storm water and sewer — and relocations on the site plan. We are simply waiting for the engineers to work those details out so we know what direction we’ll be going.” Earthmoving work is what Sikes Brothers Inc. specializes in. All the topsoil taken from the site will be moved to their pit which is certified by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. “There have probably been some 800 to 900 loads of dirt that have come out of the site,” said Lanier. “Each one of our dump trucks hold 16 cubic yards of soil. We probably could have done the work faster but had to be sensitive around the utility work involved so we removed the soil steadily over the weeks, probably not as fast as we could have. “This has been a really good job so far. The safety issues and awareness involved with this project have been very high, something we’re used to because we often work on nuclear bases; we know

Unfortunately the area cleared for the new biological sciences building was one of the last wooded sites remaining on the GSU campus, according to McMakin. They were, however, able to maintain the trees around the site; they only cleared what they had to clear to make way for the building.

what to expect when we go onsite. We have backup alarms, fire alarms and oil leak warnings on all our equipment. Ours is required to be up to date to be onsite.” Sikes Brothers owns all its own equipment including a Komatsu 350 hydraulic excavator, a Komatsu 220 hydraulic excavator, a John Deere 700 bulldozer with onboard GPS and assorted rollers for compaction work. They have all the pads down at this point after excavating to a depth of approximately 6 ft. (1.8 m). “We will be onsite for the duration of this project,” added Lanier. “This will be in order to control soil erosion which may occur on the site. But the majority of our work will be done — the grading and the placement of utilities — should be completed by the end of February 2012. After that, all the concrete people and other contractors will be working on the site. Our main function however at that point will be maintenance for soil erosion activity happening. “The weather has cooperated for us so far. Since October we’ve only missed plus or minus twoand-a-half days due to foul weather. Bad weather of course also can back you into a corner right quick.” Lanier feels his most important

tool right now is the GPS on his John Deere dozer and motorgrader. “The GPS helps us keep the grades and we don’t have to spend a lot of time jumping out and checking if we’ve got everything right,” he stated. “We build a surface file just like a set of plans with grades on it. What the GPS does is, when the surveyor or engineer builds that surface file it tells the motorgrader to either cut swales, build the building pad, roads or any feature being constructed. You save a lot of time and money with this equipment. “A surveyor typically costs from 500 to 700 dollars per day to do this work. That work consists mostly of putting sticks in the ground, with another person as the supervisor on site who knows how to read the level and in turn makes sure the building pad is laying out level on the swales.” You must have good equipment to do the work, according to Lanier. “But the equipment in turn is only as good as the people operating that equipment. We’ve been blessed. I have one good supervisor and two good operators in the trucks used to move the dirt. We have eight to 10 trucks. Our breadand- butter work is asphalt paving

and our crews are flexible enough that if they’re not on a job as part of the asphalt paving crew — when this type of work is shut down because the weather’s so cold — they’re able to handle operating an excavator, loader, dozer or whatever.” McMakin estimates construction completion to happen by June of 2013. “This is a very aggressive schedule, especially since we are just starting the project,” said McMakin. “Work should be completed by the summer of 2013 at the very latest. But I don’t think that will be a problem. This is about a 20- month project. “The new biological sciences building will enhance the biology at GSU and the studies in this department, incorporating new technologies and improve the learning experience for the students. To this we can add that this structure will be as environmentally-friendly as possible, a nice added benefit in the midst of all our growth to meet the needs of the GSU students.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG

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Yancey Bros. Delivers First Cat Vocational Truck in Ga.

(L-R) are Guy Milliken, Truck Sales Manager; Scott Chapman, Yancey Bros. Co. Sales Representative; Lester Ranew; and Jim Stephenson, Dealer Principal, Yancey Bros. Co.

When the announcement was made that Caterpillar would begin manufacturing its own line of vocational trucks, it didn’t take too much time for a long-time Cat supplier to step up and place an order. Ranew’s Trucking, a division of Ranew’s Companies of Milner, Ga., is a supplier of transportation services for Caterpillar Inc. and several dealers across the southeastern United States. Hauling loads of Cat generators, earthmoving equipment and power enclosures across the country, Ranew’s operates a mixed fleet of vocational trucks. But with the new CT660 entering the market, the company has decided they are going to repopulate their fleet with Cat trucks in the coming years. Yancey Bros. Co., the Caterpillar dealer for Georgia, delivered its first CT660 to Ranew’s the first week of December. Yancey Bros. Co. Dealer Principal Jim Stephenson made the short trip from Atlanta to Milner to hand-deliver the keys to Ranew’s President Lester Ranew. To mark the event as an even more special day, Cat Vocational Truck (CVT) Sales Manager Guy Milliken, Sales Representative Scott Chapman, plus several other Yancey team members cooked pork shoulders with all the fixings for more than 100 of Ranew’s Companies employees and invited guests. While the weather may have been a typical rainy

Lester Ranew (L), took delivery of the first CT660 from Jim Stephenson, Dealer Principal, Yancey Bros. Co.

To mark the event as an even more special day, Cat Vocational Truck (CVT) Sales Manager Guy Milliken, Sales Representative Scott Chapman, plus several other Yancey team members cooked pork shoulders with all the fixings for more than 100 of Ranew’s Companies employees and invited guests.

December day, the atmosphere at Ranew’s was bright and sunny with the arrival of the first CVT delivered in Georgia. About Ranew’s Companies Ranew’s Companies is a product solutions business that serves customers across the globe. Founded in 1981 by Lester and Susan Ranew, the company has been proudly serving their customers for three decades. It all began when the Ranews opened a small, one- bay, paintand-body shop in Sunnyside, Ga.

He had a few simple goals: work hard, treat people right and make an honest living. Lester soon realized that his customers needed more than just paint and body work so he began delivering “Product Solutions.” If a customer had an idea or a product that required fabrication, assembly or painting, Ranew’s could help. The “Product Solutions” concept along with a true commitment to customer satisfaction provided Ranew’s with many new business opportunities. These new opportunities could only be realized with larger shops and more acreage so a

decision was made to relocate15 miles south to Milner, Ga. Over the past three decades the company has grown to become a multi-division organization serving a variety of customer bases. Its Trucking Division provides transportation and hauling services for public and private customers across North America. By providing turn-key internodal solutions for its customers, Ranew’s has become one of the country’s most respected and dependable transportation providers. Ranew’s Fabrication Division designs, develops and manufac-

tures precision shipping containers for use in the public and private inter-modal transportation industry, including specialized Container Safety Conventionapproved shipping containers and interconnecting tanks. Ranew’s is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Quality Management System company for its fabrication business. Its Industrial Coating Division is what got them on the map. Ranew’s has 30 years’ experience painting all types of parts, vehicles and commercial equipment. The company specializes in powder coating for its customers, and the work is done on site in a wellgrounded, clean environment to ensure consistent wrap-around coverage. Today, Ranew’s headquarters stands on its original Milner site. In addition, the surrounding 30-plus acres were acquired over the years and are now the home of its three divisions, a warehouse, 80-plus dedicated employees and a customer base which includes local, state, national and international companies. Lester and Susan remain as the original owners of Ranew’s and continue to actively serve as the company Presidents. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG

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Hydrema Expanding in North America Moves to Larger Facility Hydrema US Inc., a manufacturer of earthmoving and military equipment, continues to grow despite the sluggish economy and has moved to a new North American headquarters located in Alpharetta, Ga. In 2005, Hydrema established its North American headquarters in the state of Georgia offering dealers and end-users their 912 and 922 articulated dump truck products. Hydrema has since built a solid dealer network, which now consists of more than 100 locations throughout 18 states and Canada. “We attribute our growth to years of hard work, dedication, outstanding sales and service support as well as offering a great niche product,” said Kris Binder, execu-

tive vice president of Hydrema. “We are poised to continue this growth through the foreseeable future.” Hydrema’s expansion has led it to outgrow its Roswell, Ga., facility and move to a larger facility in Alpharetta, Ga. “We are very pleased to have expanded our facility in North America,” said Binder. “The new facility will allow us to increase and enhance our technical and sales training as well as parts and equipment distribution in North America.” The new location quadruples Hydrema’s space, offering work bays, office and warehouse space. The work bays provide enough space for Hydrema to refurbish full

machines and perform PDIs (pre delivery inspections). Hydrema also will have the space to stock new equipment that will be available for immediate delivery to dealers and end-users, reducing lead time. Hydrema will use the warehouse space as a large parts depot to support its North American construction business and U.S. Army business both domestically and internationally. Hydrema’s new address is 985 Union Hill Rd., Alpharetta, GA 30004. Its phone and fax numbers remain the same; Phone: 404/6141747; Fax: 800/254-9481. For more information, visit www.hydrema.com.

Hall County Bridges Over Lake Lanier Starting to Show Age GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) Bridges built as Lake Lanier sprung up in the 1950s are starting to show their age, according to a published report. The Gainesville Times found that of the 12 bridges over Lanier, four have a sufficiency rating below 40 on a 0 to 100 scale that measures structural integrity and other factors. Three rated between 40 and 60. At 50, a bridge is considered structurally deficient. At 40, it begins to work its way into replacement plans. The newspaper studied a Georgia Department of Transportation bridges database. Department spokeswoman Teri Pope said “we must replace these aging structures as needed” but also noted funding is at an all-time low. “It is like when you buy a new house: Everything works well, but after about 15 years, everything starts breaking or needs replacing at the same time,” said Pope of the DOT’s Gainesville-based District 1. “We are at a critical point.” The federal government began building Lanier in 1950s. It is now the main water source for the metro Atlanta area. One of the bridges in dire shape is the narrow, two-lane Boling Bridge on Georgia 53 at the Chestatee River portion of Lanier on the border of Hal and Forsyth counties. The $13.5 million project is expected to take two years. The DOT is planning

to replace the current steel truss bridge, built in 1956, with a two-lane concrete bridge. Engineers met with the public in December about the project, which may reach construction in state fiscal year 2014, or beginning July 1, 2013. But while some favor the work, others say the money isn’t there. “We don’t have the money to do this project or many other projects,” Forsyth County resident Andy Hall said. Pope said the DOT inspects every bridge every two years “and more often if needed based on the condition of the bridge,” then makes decisions on sufficiency ratings. Georgia has 14,649 bridges statewide and 941 of them, or 6.4 percent, are considered structurally deficient. Nine states have lower percentages, said David Spear, DOT press secretary. “We believe the state’s bridges, all in all, are in reasonably good condition,” he said. “Still, we have a backlog of nearly 7,000 routine bridge maintenance items statewide and would need to spend $500 million in 10 years to address all of them — funds we simply do not have. “So we prioritize the work and do the best we can to manage the workload.” Georgia ranks 49th nationally in per capita spending on transportation networks despite being one of the nation’s fastest-growing states.

The new location quadruples Hydrema’s space, offering work bays, office and warehouse space.

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