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April 3 2016 Vol. I • No. 7
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$1.4B TxDOT Project Aims to Ease Traffic on I-35 Near Dallas By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
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Belt Line — I-35E at Belt Line looking north.
A major reconstruction project will make a difference for travelers through Denton and Dallas counties in Texas when it is finished. The approximately 30-mi. (48.28 km) project travels through two counties and nine cities, and Phase I will cost $1.4 billion. Construction on this phase started in October 2013, and is currently on schedule to be substantially complete by mid-2017. Funding comes from federal, state and local sources. The construction is being led by AGL Constructors, a joint venture including Archer Western, Granite Construction Incorporated and Lane Construction Company. The 35Express Project reconstructs I-35E between U.S. Highway 380 in Denton County and I-635 in Dallas County. The contract calls for the reconstruction or rehabilitation of more than 75 bridges, adds an 18-mi. (29 km) reversible managed lane system, an additional lane of traffic in each direction between the Sam Rayburn Tollway and U.S. Highway 380, continuous frontage road, and a new southbound bridge across Lewisville Lake. According to the project Web site,
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Beams for the new southbound bridge over Lewisville Lake. AGL Constructors photo
Setting forms at the Belt Line bridge.
see TXDOT page 6
Texas Ports Receive $20M for Road Improvements The Texas Transportation Commission has approved $20 million in funding for road improvements at Texas ports to help ensure their continued contributions to the vitality of the state’s economy. Nine port projects were selected to use just over $10 million in the state funds combined with $5 million from
local and other funding sources. The remaining $10 million in state funds will be considered by the commission at a future meeting for improvements at the Port of Houston. “Texas ports are our gateway to international trade,” said Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. “The facilities in our
ports are crucial and so are the roads and bridges that connect them to the rest of our country. These projects address those links between the ports and our highways, and help maintain our prominence in worldwide commerce.” see PORTS page 18
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Texas-Based Company Provides Services to Oil, Gas Industry Despite being a multi-faceted company, Tim Nesler, Dimension Energy Services president and CEO summed up what his company does rather easily. “Dimension Energy Services constructs and maintains pipeline and facility assets for the energy industry,” he said. How Dimension Energy does that takes a little more explanation. It offers a broad range of services such as pipeline and facilities construction, operations and maintenance, integrity management, pipeline rehabilitation and project management. As a result, the Sugarland, Texas-based company’s client list includes pipeline owners and operators, major integrated energy companies, independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, petrochemical producers and power generators. Dimension Energy participates in every segment of the oil and gas sector — upstream, midstream and downstream — and it provides a comprehensive list of services in each category. Its upstream operations include capabilities and services related to exploration and production — including storage, measurement, treating and separating, and transportation. The midstream sector provides similar services as they relate to engineering, pipelines and maintenance, with the addition of gathering. Downstream operations consist of crude oil refining, chemical plants, gas processing, storage, fuel delivery systems to power generation plants, transportation and distribution. Services offered in the downstream phase include engineering, construction and maintenance.
includes Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. The company is split into three divisions: Gulf Coast, Permian Basin and Anadarko. The Gulf Coast Division primarily focuses on maintenance and capital expense projects for petrochemical plants and refineries in southern Texas and Louisiana. The Permian Basin Division covers West Texas and New
Mexico, and the Anadarko Division services the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma. The Anadarko Division came online a few years ago, with the acquisition of Dimension Pipelines in Wheeler, Texas. Mike O’Gorman, general manager and Mark Burrell, general superintendent oversee the division. Their counterparts in the Permian Basin Division are Manoel Urquidi and Jeff King.
“The majority of our work involves complete installation of oil and gas pipeline, as well as a growing maintenance component,” said O’Gorman. “We handle everything — surveying, right-ofway clearing, putting up fence, cutting ditch, laying the pipe and covering it up.” King said the Permian Basin Division’s focus mirrors Anadarko.
“The biggest difference between the two divisions is that our projects are done in different conditions and terrain. We have a lot more rock and sand, which requires using a rock trencher and hammers on our equipment. Anadarko tends to run in flatter ground and more typical soil conditions. Both divisions have the expertise to lay practically any size of pipe, no matter the conditions, and finish projects on schedule.” Outstanding Safety Record Dimension Energy’s record of finishing jobs on time or ahead of schedule has helped the company gain a solid reputation and a list of repeat customers, according to Nesler. He noted that reliable project delivery isn’t the only reason they call Dimension Energy back time and time again. “Customers know we’ll meet their deadlines, and they like that we offer such a long list of services; it gives them one company to work with for a wide range of needs,” said Nesler. “More importantly, they appreciate that we get their jobs done safely. Our customers place a heavy emphasis on that, and we do, too. Our employees understand that they have responsibilities to themselves and their peers. Because of that, our safety record is outstanding.”
Large Package of Komatsu Equipment To dig and lay pipe, the Permian (L-R): Mike O’Gorman, general manager, and Mark Burrell, general superintendent of Dimension Energy Services, Anadarko Division, meet with Brady McAlister, Kirby-Smith Machinery territory Basin and Anadarko divisions rely on 10 Komatsu excavators — manager, on a job site in central Oklahoma. eight PC210LC-10s and two PC240LC-10s. Backfilling and grading is largely done with four Komatsu D65EX17 dozers. Dimension Divisions Focused Energy Services recently on Pipe Installation added the Tier IV machines In addition to Nesler, in a package it put together Dimension’s leadership with Brady McAlister, territeam consists of Sumner tory manager of Kirby(Buzz) White, executive Smith Machinery. vice president of develop“A group of us sat down ment and technical services; and discussed how to Glenn Schaefer, senior vice improve our fleet, and severpresident of operations; and al factors came into play,” Robert Britt, controller. They said Nesler. “Chief among oversee a staff of up to 500 them was dealer support. We people. were dealing with a competManoel Urquidi, administrative Dimension Energy covers Tim Nesler, president/CEO of manager and business develop- Jeff King, general superintendent, ing distributor, and we felt a five-state territory that Dimension Energy Services. see DIMENSION page 24 ment, Permian Basin Division. Permian Basin Division.
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TxDOT’s I-35 Expansion Aims to Provide Better Access TXDOT from page 1
Interstate 35E (I-35E) serves the rapidly growing areas of southern and central Denton County, as well as the major Dallas suburbs immediately north of I-635.This corridor is a major artery for hundreds of thousands of commuters, as well as a primary link to major universities in the city of Denton, including the fourth-largest university in the state, the University of North Texas (UNT). In addition, I-35E is an important truck corridor and accommodates more than 12,000 trucks daily. The interstate also handles almost 200,000 total vehicles daily near I-635, and 128,000 vehicles a day across Lewisville Lake. In addition, because of a lack of continuous frontage roads across Lewisville Lake, there are no viable north-south commuting alternatives to I-35E at this crossing. This section of the I-35 corridor is on the list of Texas’ 100 most congested roadways. Expanding I35E will reduce congestion that results in lost work time, increased fuel costs and higher price of goods. The project will improve mobility across Lewisville Lake with construction of a second bridge that will offer more reliability for commuters during major incidents. The $4.8 billion project will be constructed in phases, and will rebuild the entire 30-mi. corridor. Approximately $1.4 billion in
funding has been identified for Phase 1 of this project, which includes SH 121 regional toll revenue (RTR) funds dedicated to Denton County. Phase 2 of the project will occur when the additional funding becomes available. “The length and amount of coordination needed for this project makes it unique,” said Kimberly Sims, public information manager. “AGL coordinated with various entities on ROW acquisition, utilities, design, traffic control, and aesthetics. In addition, we are demolishing four bridges and converting them into at-grade roadways with increased capacity. Belt Line Road is one of the more complicated pieces of the project — AGL is essentially building two bridges at once. The mainlane bridge is being raised 25 feet above its current elevation and Belt Line Road is being raised to the elevation of the existing mainlane bridge. Improving mobility is one of the reasons for elevating this interchange. The newly elevated interchange will allow motorists to travel over the railroad track near the intersection.” According to Sims, the project will include a total of 2.04 million man hours worked; 9,920 traffic barrels placed; and 8,267 cu. yds. (6,320.5 cu m) of concrete recycled. More than 190,113 tons (172,468 t) of asphalt have been used for paving, and more than 113,113 tons (102,614 t) of asphalt has been recycled. Over 62 mi.
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The 35Express Project reconstructs I-35E between U.S. Highway 380 in Denton County and I-635 in Dallas County.
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(99.77 km) of protective concrete barrier has been placed, 66 mi. (106.2 km) of utilities have been relocated and 17 mi. (27.4 km) of drainage has been installed. The south segment (I-635 to PGBT) covers 7.5 mi. (12 km), the middle segment (PGBT to FM 2181) covers 12.1 mi. (19.5 km), and the north segment (FM 2181 to U.S. 380) covers 10.5 mi. (17 km). There will be an additional general purpose lane in each direction, N of SH 121 to U.S. 380; two reversible managed toll lanes from I-635 to Turbeville/Hundley; a
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Preparing the 600-ton (544.3 t) crane to place beams over the DART rail line.
new southbound bridge over Lewisville Lake; Belt Line Road intersection reconstruction; intersection improvements at Dickerson, FM407, Garden Ridge, S. Denton/Oak, Turbeville/Hundley, Corinth, Post Oak, and North Texas Blvd. I-35E was originally constructed in the 1950s and 60s. In 1998, TxDOT began a comprehensive review and planning study of the I35E corridor in Dallas and Denton counties. For the next 13 years, TxDOT and communities and stakeholders refined the designs and upgrades for this corridor. In 2011 and 2012, TxDOT received environmental clearance for the
$4.8 billion infrastructure project. Also, $1 billion in funding was identified for an initial phase of the project with most coming from SH 121 regional toll revenue funds dedicated to Denton County. In accordance with state law, TxDOT and corridor stakeholders held seven public meetings to determine the method and scope of the initial phase (Phase 1) as well as lay the ground work for Phase 2 to complete the remaining elements of the corridor. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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It would be pretty tough to install any shoring system in an excavation 30 ft. (9.1 m) from a major body of water. However, that was the challenge facing Robstown, Texas, contractor Bridges Specialties when they were recently charged with installing a fiberglass lift station just 10 yds. (9.1 m) from the banks of Corpus Christi Bay. The city of Corpus Christi-let project required the lift station to be set a modest 20 ft. (6 m) deep, however the water table started at about 7 ft. (2.1 m) deep. “We had to set up dewatering pumps for a whole week prior to starting the excavation, just to get the water level low enough to set our lift station,” said Brian Bridges, owner and operator of his namesake company. “And the ground conditions changed during the dig. It was sand for 10 feet, then sandy clay after that,” Bridges explained. “There was no way we could dig out a hole then set a [trench] box,” continued Bridges. “The only possible way to get down to grade was to install all the sheeting and then dig out within the system,” he said. For help with this challenge, Bridges contacted the Houston branch office of trench shielding and shoring equipment supplier Trench Plate Rental. Steve Hanley, branch manager, had an immediate solution. “I proposed our Quicksheet Guideframe system,” said Hanley. “Bridges has used the guide frames before, and I knew Quicksheet would be perfect because it allows a contractor to push sheets down below the final grade of the excavation, and then dig out the pit,” Hanley said. The Efficiency Production manufactured
The Efficiency Production manufactured Quicksheet Guideframe shoring system has mitered corners with overlapping pockets that pin together like a door hinge, creating a four-sided “picture frame” system that can be set-up on the ground or in a shallow pilot hole.
Quicksheet Guideframe has mitered corners with overlapping pockets that pin together like a door hinge, creating a four-sided “picture frame” system that can be set-up on the ground or in a shallow pilot hole. The 4 ft. (1.2 m) tall, 24 in. (61 cm) wide sheeting guide frame has a 7 in. (18 cm) slot where EP-10 sheeting can be stood up and overlapped, then pushed down with an excavator
Bridges Specialties excavates 10 yds. (9.1 m) from Corpus Christi Bay in preparation to set a new lift station. The site required a full week of dewatering before excavating could be attempted.
bucket. The guide frame for Bridges’ project was 16 x 16 ft. sq. (4.8 x 4.8 m sq) with 25 ft. (7.6 m) lengths of overlap sheeting. Bridges used a 60,000 lb. Bridges cast-in-place concrete around the bottom of (27,215 kg) John Deere the lift station to create a wider, square foundation. excavator for its work and a Eye bolts were cemented into the foundation, which 120-ton (108.8 t) crane the crane operator utilized to set the entire strucleased through T & T Crane. ture into the excavation. In order to make the 5 ft. (1.5 m) diame- great,” said Bridges. “We are using them ter, 22 ft. (6.7 m) tall fiberglass FRP Vessel again on another project, as well.” stand up straight and plumb, Bridges cast-inBridges Specialties offers a wide range of place 36,000 lbs. (16,329 kg) of concrete commercial, industrial, and residential servaround the bottom of the lift station to create ices to South Texas government facilities, a wider, square foundation. That addition municipalities and local business. also allowed eye bolts to be cemented into With branch offices in California, Texas, the foundation which the crane operator uti- Florida and Chicago, Trench Plate Rental is lized to set the entire structure into the exca- an official Efficiency Production Inc. trench vation. shielding and shoring equipment distributor. Trench Plate Rental also supplied exclu- Efficiency Production provides a wide selecsive pin-on pushing caps for the top of the tion of standard and custom trench shielding sheeting which have recessed lifting lugs and shoring systems. Efficiency’s versatile and provide more surface area for pushing products are designed specifically for safe the sheets into the ground. Bridges also utilized ground quick-release shackles — and cost effective installation of utility sysexclusively manufactured by Efficiency tems and infrastructure improvements. All Production — that enable the shackle to be products are P.E. certified to meet OSHA released from the ground, eliminating the standards. For more information, call 713/671-2551. potential dangers of climbing a ladder to (This story also can be found on undo traditional threaded shackles. Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site “This was the third time using the Quicksheet Guideframes, and they worked at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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GNSS Helps Rein in Challenges in Mammoth Texas Job A real-life manifestation of the adage “everything’s bigger in Texas,” is taking place on a huge tract of farmland about 35 mi. (56.3 km) northwest of Houston. There, global air conditioning supplier Daikin Industries Ltd., is building the world’s largest tilt-wall structure to house all facets of its operation — manufacturing, distribution and office space — which currently exists in a number of separate buildings in Houston. In fact, at 4.1 million sq. ft. (380,902 sq m) of total space, the building will instantly become the second largest structure, in terms of square footage, of any kind in the world, trailing only Boeing’s Everett, Wash., assembly plant at 4.3 million sq. ft. (399,483 sq m). While the sheer magnitude of such a project is daunting — the site itself covers more than 500 acres — the earthmoving, grading and concrete paving facets of the job have moved along nicely due to a cooperative GNSS effort between three of the major firms on site. Joining
than 4.2 million sq. ft. (390,193 sq m) of concrete slabs for the structure, as well as an additional 4.5 million sq. ft. (418,064 sq m) for adjacent parking areas and access roads. The volumes of building material, like the project itself, are mind-numbing: more than 360,000 cu. yds. (275,240 cu m) of concrete and 29,000 tons (26,308 t) of steel used between the slabs, parking area (for 5,000 cars) and the 429 tilt-wall panels. Each panel is 25-ft. (7.62 m) wide with heights ranging from 50 to 60 ft. (15.24 to 18.29 m). When complete, the Daikin structure will have more than 2 mi. (3.22 km) of tilt wall panels in place.
Some of the key team members on the Daikin job (L-R) included John Lively, project superintendent, Keystone Concrete Placement; Darren Clark, project superintendent, Harvey Construction; Chase Baker, operations manager and co-owner, Choctaw Construction Services.
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forces to tackle a huge challenge? Also very Texas-like. Remember the Alamo. Moving Mountains Land clearing on Daikin’s new site, located near the town of Hockley, started in January 2015. That was followed by a massive earthmoving effort, which by project’s end will have entailed movement of more than 1.8 million cu. yds. (1.37 million cu m) of soil, according to Chase Baker, co-owner of Choctaw Construction Services of Katy, Texas, one of several major subcontractors on the job. “The general contractor for this project is the Houston office of Harvey Builders,” he said. “Burnside Services Inc. (BSI) is acting as an earthmoving subcontractor to them and we are subbing to BSI, helping with some of the rough grading and handling the fine grading portion of the job as well. To move that massive volume of dirt, BSI and our company put together a fleet of Case 580 tractors pulling 33 cubic yard K-Tec 1233
For cases in which the scraper pans had limited access, BSI often loaded them using excavators like the Cat 349F shown here.
All three earthmoving/concrete contractors used a GNSS solution on the massive 500-acre site and all worked off the same base.
With concrete pumping taking place in the background, Keystone’s NorAm 65E turbo compact motorgrader handles fine grading.
scraper pans. The K-Tec scrapers have a higher ground clearance than any other pans available today and, given the often muddy conditions we’ve had to deal with, have really kept that facet of the project moving along. At one point there were nearly two
Texas Stake-Out Conspicuously absent throughout the Daikin site is evidence of any grading stakes — impressive given the overall amount of earthmoving taking place. BSI’s workload alone involves 20 million sq. ft. (1.8 million sq m) of rough grading. According to Baker,
dozen Case/K-Tec tandems at work — it was quite a sight.” The third component of the earthwork/grading effort, Houston-based Keystone Concrete Placement, is doing the fine grading work in advance of the more
all three companies involved in major earthmoving and grading have almost entirely bypassed traditional surveying techniques in favor of GNSS machinery and equipment. “At this point in the project, we are pretty much all in agreement that there’s no way this job could be done without using GPS,” he said. “Not only would we have needed an army of people out there setting blue-tops, the surveying costs associated with it would have been astronomical. Instead, because we all have experience with GNSS technology and own equipment with machine control on it, we worked with a couple of engineers who took the existing plans, created a digital model, and loaded it into our respective dozers, scrapers, graders and excavators. Working off a single Topcon GR-5 receiver, we got to work.” As a result of that consolidation of effort, BSI, Keystone and Choctaw are all on the same page with regard to what needs to be done, what changes have been made, and so see GNSS page 16
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Contractor Uses GNSS in Texas Plant Construction GNSS from page 12
on. Baker said the Daikin job is ideal for machine control and examples of that occur almost daily. “One of the biggest challenges has been the contour lines that we have to cut and the fact that the swales are all flatwork,” he said. “Everything out here sheet drains, so trying to blue-top for all the different angles, points and swales would be next to impossible. Instead, we are cutting against the swales and the contour just forms and flows. We’ve done as much as a 75,000 square foot block of fine grade in five hours and are doing it with two operators: a dozer out in front and a grader behind him. Who can argue with that?” All About the Yield Though Keystone’s role differs
from that of Choctaw’s and a far cry from the rough grading BSI is handling, it is no less critical, nor demanding. For them, however, a NorAm 65E turbo compact motorgrader, equipped with Topcon 3DMC2 machine control, is proving ideal for the fine grading they are doing in advance of paving. Both are recent additions, according to John Lively, Keystone’s project superintendent. “Keystone has a number of companies under one umbrella and one of those is an earthwork company that recently used Topcon GPS on a project they did — a parking lot for a local school district. It was so successful that, when we landed this job, we immediately purchased the NorAm motorgrader and outfitted it
with the full Topcon 3D-MC2 system.” Lively said that Choctaw initially gets the grade to within .10 of a foot, but by the time his crews get to working on it, things have been run upon, compaction has occurred, etc., making additional fine grading necessary. Failure to do so, particularly on a job of this size, he said, could wreak havoc on their bottom line. “With this huge an area, we’re
Elevation. Elevation. Elevation. The number of variables present at the Daikin site — the differing levels of work which will be taking place, whether or not heavy vehicle traffic will be present in an area, if machinery will be supported, and so on — is reflected in an equally varied range of pad and pavement thicknesses, according to Lively. “Concrete thickness runs anywhere from five to ten inches throughout the site,” he said. “There are sections that are five inches thick, there are some that are eight, nine or ten inches thick. And, to complicate matters, in many areas, the thicknesses are not segregated. We have parking lots in which the general area is seven inches thick but the Equipping Keystone’s NorAm compact 2 motorgrader with a Topcon 3D-MC system drive lanes around it dramatically increases accuracies, virtual- are nine inches. It varies greatly.” ly eliminating the risk of over pouring. With that overextremely sensitive to things being abundance of differing elevations, graded to the right elevation to grading using traditional methods eliminate the risk of over pouring,” could also have been a nightmare. said Lively. “A half inch of addi- But GNSS, according to Baker, tional concrete across a site this tackled it with surprising ease. large is a ton of money. So, after “It was really simple with the every pour we monitor the yield: Topcon system,” he said. “We we take the square footage and the would just dial in the offsets and be thickness, calculate how much we able to easily switch between the should have poured and compare it differing grades. Even though we to how much we actually did pour. have really good operators, just to accuracy, we are still reguA company like ours can have two ensure larly checking progress with to three percent overages and still rovers. But we’ve been spot-on remain profitable. We’ve been well every step of the way.” within that range thanks to the accuracy of the grade we are getSupporting Role ting with the Topcon system.” Because of the centralized Almost all of the 1.8 million cu. yds. (1.37 million cu m) of dirt was moved using Case 580 tractors pulling 33 cu. yd. (25 cu m) K-Tec 1233 scraper pans.
Despite as many as 10 different grade elevations, Keystone kept accuracies on track with the help of a Topcon HiPer V base and FC-500 field controller running Pocket 3D software.
GNSS approach taken by the three contractors, all service and support also has been through a single source: the Houston branch of GeoShack. Both Baker and Lively say that support has been outstanding. “Right from the outset, GeoShack was on top of this,” said Lively. “Scott Bird, their machine control specialist, recognized that we were fairly new to the technology, came out to the site to help us set up, and helped us all through some early-stage “hiccups.” In addition, because of the amount of equipment we all have in place, GeoShack designated a full-time technician to be out here. So now, whether we need help with an issue or just want to further advance our understanding of the system, they are almost immediately available.” Baker has been equally impressed with the level of support both Topcon and GeoShack have provided. “We’ve had offers from other GPS equipment manufacturers and suppliers, but feel that Topcon and GeoShack have really been there for us,” he said. “Things have gone so well out here that, despite heavy rains that impacted production, we are still on track to meet a planned early 2016 partial move-in, and well ahead of our own self-imposed deadlines. To go from an empty field to where we are now — in just over a year — seems almost impossible. But having us all ‘sharing’ the Topcon solution, so to speak, improved everyone’s efficiencies and made it very manageable.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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GOMACO Corporation recently recognized ROMCO Equipment Company of Texas as a Top Ten Distributor for sales in the 2015 fiscal year. The award was presented in recognition for outstanding sales and distribution of GOMACO equipment in the United States. ROMCO Equipment Company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with branch offices in Longview, Buffalo, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, and Houston, Texas. (L-R) are Craig Burkert, Charlie Clarkson and Robert Mullins, ROMCO Equipment Company; Kent Godbersen, GOMACO Vice president of worldwide sales and marketing; and David Fitch, ROMCO Equipment Company. For more information, visit www.gomaco.com.
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Flex Supply Brings ‘The Best Units in the Field’ to Texas Highway construction and maintenance managers in the state of Texas now have a single source for knowledgeable service and reliable products for portable traffic controls. Peter Vieveen, president and founder of North America Traffic Inc. (NAT), has announced the appointment of Flex Supply LLC as authorized sales and service distributor for the NAT line of portable traffic signals and automated flagger assistance devices. Vieveen spoke highly of the latest addition to his growing distributor network. “With their extensive background in the construction industry and their years of experience in equipment rentals, Flex Supply is really the ideal fit for NAT’s customer-focused approach to business. They have first-hand insight into what customers need, plus the know-how to deliver it,” he said. Reliability for Highway Projects A family-run business under the ownership of Chad and Tracie Osborne, Flex Supply is based in Winona, Texas, and serves highway projects throughout the state. Chad Osborne said that he was familiar with NAT portable signals having had North America Traffic AFADs as part of their product line offering, and they now welcomed the opportunity to add the PTL line to their inventory. “This is a big state with a lot of miles between projects,” he said. “Contractors need a reliable product on their site. They can’t afford to be waiting around for service because of a signal problem. With their responsibility to the public, they have to feel confident that their signals will do the job when they have lane closures overnight.” Flex Supply specializes in complete traffic control solutions, providing a complete range of TXDOT-approved barricades, signs and message boards, lighting systems and control devices. Now, Flex Supply can offer the original AFAD (automated flagger assistance device) as well as NAT’s versatile range of solar-powered portable traffic signals and control systems. NAT Committed to People The Osbornes, along with Frank Sturgeon, sales manager, visited the NAT headquarters, not far from Niagara Falls, before committing to their distribution agreement. Although the factory and engineering facility are well equipped with the latest manufacturing equipment and processes, the technology is not what impressed Flex Supply the most. “It’s their commitment and investment in
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their people,” said Chad Osborne. “Their approach to production, to marketing, their continuous training — Peter’s leadership and his drive to make his company better for the customer is what sets North America Traffic apart. We could see that NAT has the best unit in the field — and now we see that they have the best service support, too.” Save Costs, Improve Safety Osborne feels that the simplicity of the NAT controls and setup also is uniquely suited to the needs of Texas customers. “Our construction season is 365 days,” Osborne said. “So the workforce is very stable, but employees are also very focused on particular tasks. NAT equipment is simple enough. You don’t need to hire a dedicated crew member to set up traffic patterns and lane closures — anyone on the crew can learn this very quickly. That will save costs but it also improves safety because you can have people who are qualified for the traffic equipment on site all the time.”
Meeting Specialized Needs North America Traffic has earned its position in the market by constantly innovating and responding to unique needs, according to the company. Flex Supply is already taking advantage of NAT’s custom engineering services by having them adapt a controller for its portable signals and hardwiring it into the controller programming for fixed signals at a diamond intersection. NAT will now offer the package as an option for standalone signals as well as for portable signals working in tandem with the permanent traffic lights. Flex Supply also is working with NAT to streamline the automation features of the standard AFAD sets to reduce costs on units that will be used only by a dedicated onsite operator. Flex Supply has its initial NAT units for its fleet, with more to be delivered over the next several months. “We get calls every day about AFADs and signals,” Osborne said. “In our other business, we install permanent signals and we work with traffic signals on a daily basis. We
know what the business needs, and that’s why we chose North America Traffic.” About North America Traffic Inc. North America Traffic was launched as R.C. Flagman in 1993 when Peter Vieveen built the world’s first remote controlled flagman out of his garage. At the time, Mr. Vieveen was a senior estimator in the construction industry with more than 25 years of construction experience. He understood the importance of reducing costs while increasing safety. North America Traffic now operates a full production facility, and its products have been used on more than 3,000 projects across North America. Today, the company has eight different models of portable traffic signals, flashing beacons and flagging systems to meet all traffic control needs. For more information call 877/352-4626 or visit www.northamericatraffic.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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