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Volume 28, No. 2 A Triannual Publication of Independence Excavating, Inc. Fall, 2015

COMPLETED PROJECT Demolition of Metro Health’s North Coast Behavioral Health Building

The Metro Health’s main campus has started their multimillion dollar campus expansion with the demolition of the former North Coast Behavioral Health (NCBH) Building. Independence Excavating, Inc. (IX) was awarded the complete mass demolition of the entire existing structure.

Continued on page 2. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Vic DiGeronimo Jr.

First and foremost, I’d like to thank all of growing equipment fleet will be utilized other and go home from work every our employees, vendors, subcontractors to its capacity. I am also excited that day to our families. Please don’t let and suppliers for their continued efforts, some of the work is the new market anyone put you in a bad or unsafe helping us have what is looking like a area of construction that helps build situation — ever. If you think something fantastic year. It was recently reported sustainability for the future. After quickly is unsafe, or you think you have a safer to me from one of my cousins that — as thinking of all these positive things manner to perform a task, I implore of this writing — we have the largest regarding our upcoming work load, the you to speak to your supervisor or the back log of work under contract in the most important thing came to mind… safety department. I am also available. history of our company. It’s not one SAFETY. None of our work load matters I’m so proud, happy and thankful for particular facet of work; it is in all of if we do not take the responsibility to all the future work we have to perform, our markets spread across mostly the work safely. One injury is too many! but I know I speak for my entire family eastern United States, with a small Please do not put yourself or any of your in saying what would make us the presence of demolition out west. When peers in an unsafe situation. Our safety proudest, happiest and most thankful I thought about our substantial back department is one of the best in our would be zero accidents and injuries. log, a few things quickly came to mind. I industry, but they alone cannot manage am very happy our employees will have or implement all our practices on every Thank you for your continued effort. a busy and prosperous year in regards job, every day. It’s the responsibility of to hours. I am happy that our ever- our entire team to take care of each Have a nice day!

Continued from page 1. COMPLETED PROJECT Demolition of Metro Health’s North Coast Behavioral Health Building

The original NCBH Building was built around 1922, as part of a modern hospital complex for the City of . The building was constructed of steel framing with concrete casing, and finished with a brick exterior façade. There were several alterations and expansions throughout its nearly 100 years of use and history, which — as often occurs — resulted in less detailed records, a situation that created many challenges for our project team. The main bed tower stood 10 stories high, with later additions of two annex buildings to the east and west. A two-story, tiered lecture room was also expanded upon — on the 11th approximately 50,000 SF of building. We would like to thank our partners, and 12th floors of the bed tower — at Once demolition had been completed The Metro Health Team, Precision some point in this building’s history. It to the 7th floor, IX mobilized our 245 Environmental, B&B Wrecking and was the latter — the expanded lecture High Reach Excavator and let our crews all IX personnel for their hard work in room — that made the job interesting. IX go to work! When demolition of the completing this project. It truly was a first installed ten 15'x30' steel debris entire structure was completed, we challenging project, but yet another catchers to protect people and property, crushed nearly 35,000 tons of building major demolition accomplishment has 160' below the initial work. We materials into a blended hard fill, which been added to our bourgeoning list! selectively demolished the lecture room we used for backfill and general site and three bed tower floors with mini restoration. Nearly 225,000 SF of excavators and skid steers, totaling building was demolished in its entirety.

2 Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com Mid Atlantic Update

Our Mid-Atlantic team is having a very busy 2015 with exciting new projects, including — our largest job to date in the area — the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) Rail Yard and Maintenance Facility, located in Dulles, Virginia. The facility is being built on a piece of MWAA property, at the end of one of the runways at Dulles International Airport; it will be used by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authorities as a maintenance facility for their commuter trains. Our scope includes performing approximately 500,000 CY of earthwork, along with the installation of all the storm and sanitary sewers and waterlines. We will also be blasting the rock that is found beneath the ground, which will be crushed by our recycling division and used for aggregates on-site. This is a two year project — scheduled for • The CSX Point of Rocks & completion in October of 2018 — that Catoctin Tunnel Lowering is is being overseen by Hensel Phelps the third CSX National Gateway Construction Company. Improvement Project we were contracted to perform by Clark Jobs that were completed or are in Construction. Multiple crews have the process of finishing up this year been working around the clock each include two at Fort Meade, Sentara weekend since the project re-started Medical Center, 400 6th Street Office in mid-May this year. The Point of Building, V-Street Apartment Building, Rocks Tunnel is completed and Cheltenham Youth Detention Center, the Catoctin Tunnel Lowering was CSX Railroad Winchester Western completed at the end of August. Bridge Raise, CSX Germantown Bridge Demolition, CSX Point of Rocks and • St. Charles Energy Power Plant — • V Street Residential — IX is Catoctin Tunnel Lowering and St. Charles The majority of our contract work awaiting the final call back from Energy Power Plant. A brief status was completed in June and IX has Buzzuto Contractors to come in and updates on several of these projects are been retained by SNC Lavalin (SNC) complete the storm and sanitary as follows: to perform a significant amount lateral tie-ins, along with the final of additional work needed for grading around the building — which • Cheltenham Youth Detention the site preparation and utilities. is now out of the ground. We expect Center was awarded to SNC has been very satisfied with to see this project’s completion Independence Excavating (IX) in IX’s performance and the level before the year’s end. January 2014 by Turner Construction of professionalism exhibited by Company. It is a 16 site-work package our crews. As a result, we were As you can see, IX Mid-Atlantic has taken including athletic fields and site just awarded a contract by SNC great strides this year toward establishing utilities. The majority of the work was at the Keys Energy Center to a presence in the region and gaining the completed in 2014. Crews are in the perform grading and utilities for confidence of owners and contractors — process of installing miscellaneous the commissioning of a 735.5MV through our attention to safety, quality drainage, bio-retention structures Natural Gas Power Plant in and timely completion. and ponds, finish grading and re- Brandywine, Maryland. spreading of topsoil. The project will be completed this fall.

Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com 3 Let’s Play Ball…

On Sunday, August 9, the DiGeronimo Companies hosted their annual picnic at to watch the crush the Minnesota Twins 8 to 1!

4 Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com CURRENT PROJECT ODOT 328-14 Dover Bridge Replacement

schedule and nighttime implementation of embankment. The project is on of I-77 traffic phases on this high volume schedule to complete in the fall of 2015, stretch of highway. In order to fill the once again allowing for safe passage previous bridge spans, the project over the formerly deficient bridges. required a total of 155,000 cubic yards

In the fall of 2014, Independence Excavating (IX) began a bridge replacement project in ODOT District 11 that entailed the removal of two (2) structurally deficient 500 ft. span concrete structures on I-77 near Dover, , and replacement of the spanned areas with embankment. These bridges, when built in the early 1960s, were necessary for carrying highway traffic over rail tracks. Since then, the rail has been abandoned, and the need for ODOT to continually maintain these bridges — or replace them with conventional bridges — became cost prohibitive. To complete this work and maintain I-77 Northbound and Southbound traffic flows, the plans required that a temporary 2,000 ft long road be constructed to the east of I-77 to accommodate two lanes of I-77 NB. For this task, IX excavated a nearby surface pond and imported fill to complete the 70,000 CY of embankment needed to reach the design sub-grade. When completed, 11" of temporary asphalt paving and portable concrete barriers were erected to channel the new traffic flow. The new traffic arrangements allowed IX crews to demolish the entire 77 NB structure and process the concrete material into fill. Additional embankment was imported, and 77 SB was eventually diverted — through temporary asphalt cross-overs — onto the permanent north bound I-77, allowing the southbound bridge to be removed. Especially crucial during all this work was the daily coordination © Focal Plane Photography with ODOT engineers regarding our

Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com 5 NEW PROJECTS

Almono - Hazelwood Evraz Demolition Knoxville Runway Phase I – McGhee Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pueblo, Colorado Tyson Airport Scope: Installation of new DQL Duct Bank, Scope: Environmental, demolition and Louisville, Kentucky sanitary and storm sewer, waterline, curb, backfill for approximately 6,000 gross tons Scope: Crushing 98,000 tons of concrete sidewalk, roadway and landscaping for a of scrap, clean-up and load out another into P-219 base. new dedicated roadway for a future mixed 8,000 gross tons of scrap. Lafarge Quarry Crushing use development site. First Energy Big Beaver Pad Expansion Cave-In-Rock, Illinois Avon Lake Storage Facility Wampum, Pennsylvania Scope: Crushing 800,000,000 tons of Avon Lake, Ohio Scope: Excavation of substation pad. limestone into a variety of products. Scope: Mass excavation of an underground First Energy Burger Plant Demolition Larimer East Liberty Utilities clear well for the City of Avon Lake including Shadyside, Ohio Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shale excavation and sealing, pouring of a Scope: Decommissioning, abatement and Scope: Utilities, waterline, sanitary laterals 6"-thick mud matt, onsite E&S and temporary demolition for retired coal fired power plant including storm detention systems and fencing, subsequent backfill, placement of and site restoration. asphalt paving. foam tank insulation, and site restoration. First Energy Harrison Plant McKinley Place Site Improvements Brooklyn Landfill Cap Haywood, West Virginia Lakewood, Ohio Brooklyn, Ohio Scope: 400 LF of 24" storm sewer, four Scope: Mass site grading, erosion control, Scope: Construction of an approximate 38- storm structures and 36" boring under storm, sanitary and water main utilities. acre cap system including on-site relocation existing railroad tracks to improve drainage of municipal solid waste salvage of existing Northway Mall Phase 2 of the plant grounds. cover soil for subsequent placement of Ross Township, Pennsylvania 33"-thick Recompacted Soil Barrier, 3"-thick Fort Willow Apartment Demolition Scope: Revitalization of parking topsoil layer, access road, stormwater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lots, installation of new utilities including controls and erosion/sedimentation controls. Scope: 95,000 SF building demolition, 12" to 36" storm piping and storm water separation of bay, 6,500 cubic yards of detention structures, installation of three /Case Western Reserve concrete slab/foundation removal and retaining walls to create additional parking University Health Education Campus 13,000 tons of concrete crushing. area in the existing hillside. New concrete Cleveland, Ohio flatwork and curb around the entire existing Scope: Site utilities, mass excavation, Hines Hill Road Reconstruction - Phase 2 mall structure, landscaping, lighting and dewatering, surface demolition, in-ground Boston Heights, Ohio paving. All work to be completed while the utility demolition, backfilling foundations, Scope: Street reconstruction, turn lanes mall remains fully open and operational. installation/removal of temporary roads, and storm sewer construction along Hines SWPP, snow removal for new health Hill Road and Olde Eight to SR-8. Storm PacifiCorp. Transfer House Demolition education campus. sewers, catch basins, underdrains, curb Gillette, Wyoming and gutter, asphalt pavement, stabilized Scope: Demolition of small conveyor Cleveland Museum of Natural History base and site restoration. transfer house includes pit backfilling and Wildlife Center clean-up of all debris and scrap resulting Cleveland, Ohio Hyatt – Legacy from demolition. Scope: Excavation and support of deep Lyndhurst, Ohio foundation drilling, underground utilities, Scope: Site and utility demolition, rough Warbler’s Rooster Outfall Repair and storm water detention system. grading, water and fire line, sanitary and Brecksville, Ohio storm sewer, asphalt paving, electrical duct Scope: Slope repair including new storm Dulles – MMWA Rail Yard & Main Facility bank vaults and hand holes, excavation and sewer and structures, import of recycled Dulles, Virginia backfill of gas line for new Hyatt Hotel in material and stabilization. Scope: Construct a rail line maintenance Legacy Village. facility on the 90-acre site including West Carson Viaduct Demolition clearing, erosion and sediment control, Keys Energy Center Rough Grading and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 450,000 cubic yards cut to fill, 100,000 Utilities Packages Scope: Demolition and removal of CY of rock removal and crushing into road Brandywine, Maryland decommissioned 650' railroad trestle base, storm utility installation of 30,000 LF Scope: Development of a 70-acre site including 1,000 CY concrete, 300 ballast/ of underdrain, 13,000 LF of storm piping for the commissioning of a 735.5MV sand, 550 tons scrap to be hauled away. ranging from 4" to 48", and special water Natural Gas Power Plant including clearing, Concrete piers to be cut down to finish grade. management treatment structures. In erosion and sediment control, power block Winn Quarry Crushing addition, 5,000 LF of gravity sewer, 1,500 surcharging of 100,000 CY, site grading of Grand River, Kentucky LF of force main, and three pump stations 150,000 CY, installing 30 ACs of laydown, Scope: Crushing 2,000,000 tons of round out the sanitary scope and 7,800 wet, dry, and gas utility work, sheet pile limestone making a variety of products. LF of 6" to 10" ductile waterline and water retaining wall, and construction of a bridge. meter vault installation round out the waterline work.

6 Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com CURRENT PROJECT Pennsylvania Turnpike Remediation Project

Independence Excavating started 2015 off with a big victory, winning a contract for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, “America’s first Super-Highway.” This project is located in New Baltimore, approximately one hour east of Pittsburgh. The scope of our work involves remediation of a portion of the mountain that has been sliding into the turnpike since it was originally constructed, a problem dating as far back as the time when the Pennsylvania Railroad occupied the right of way in the 1920s. This portion of mountain has cost the turnpike annual maintenance and headaches over the years; they have executed their contract with us to finally remediate it.

The summary of this project is to move the entire turnpike alignment two miles away from the slide area and into a temporary setting, move the entire 3. 2.4 million cubic yards of the project and suppliers: New Enterprise Stone volume of soil, including the slide is the remediation of the slide, which and Lime Company, paving; Wampum remediation and the new alignment, will be completed in cuts of up to Hardware, blasting; On Call Flagging and and then put traffic back to the existing 80 feet in the slope of the ¼ mile PSI Services, traffic control; Bill Miller alignment and prepare for the future hillside, removing the saturated, Equipment, supplying the large-spread contracts to widen and improve the run failing soils and reconstructing the excavator and trucking; U-Company, of the existing curves. All of this work entire hillside. seeding fence and guardrail; Dixon will be conducted without impeding 4. All of this work will be performed in Precast, precast structures; and numerous the operation of the nearby Allegheny the overlooking hillside of the notable others. As usual, Independence will Tunnel, which is vital to the east-west St. John the Baptist Catholic Church support the job, thanks to the heavy shop commerce of the turnpike operations. and Retreat Center. The church is a and field support teams in both Cleveland historic, beautiful structure that has and Pittsburgh, as well as the field and Several aspects of this project make been an early monastery, Sunday project engineering staff needed to run it a challenging endeavor for our haven for turnpike travelers and this project. Pittsburgh team: an anchor to the New Baltimore community. We look forward to working with our new 1. The ultimate goal of the project 5. The Independence team has laid out Partners on this project in Stahl Sheaffer is to improve the safety of the an aggressive schedule that not only Engineering, as well as the Pennsylvania traveling public to fix the slide, as remediates the hillside, but has laid Turnpike project staff. Specifically, we well as straighten the windy and out a plan to do it significantly more are off to a great start with the help of most accident prone portion of the efficiently than the 2 ½ year schedule individuals such as Randy Wadding, Pennsylvania Turnpike. that was planned in the contract. Mike Marso and Craig Knarr (Stahl 2. A total of four million cubic yards of Sheaffer) and John Cottle, John Ozimok earth needs to be moved. For the IX Independence Excavating assembled a and Bill Clark of the Pennsylvania historians, this would be the largest great team, both internally and externally, Turnpike, among others. unclassified excavation contract for the including key area field staff, as well company (sorry Uncle Tony, it out does as great support from our partners in Look for future updates on the the Abram Creek project, Cleveland Local 66 Operating Engineers and Local progression and success of this exciting Hopkins International Airport). 1058 Laborers. We have teamed up with opportunity in the eastern Pittsburgh/ a great group of core subcontractors Central Pennsylvania region.

Independence Excavating, Inc. • www.indexc.com 7 Independence Heavy Equipment Shop THANK YOU LETTER

Hosts Maplewood Career Center The Power Equipment Mechanics students at Maplewood Career Center had On Friday, April 24, students from Thanks to Wally Foster, their teacher, for an excellent field trip last Friday. I want to Maplewood Career Center in Ravenna, making this outing possible! [thank] Independence Excavating, yourself Ohio spent the morning touring and your team for taking time out of your Independence Excavating’s Heavy day to show so many opportunities to Equipment Rebuild Facility. Twenty- these students. I have had many students one students from the Career Center’s say what a great trip it was and how much junior class spent two hours viewing, they learned. I believe we accomplished interacting and questioning our team the goal of getting some of them to think of mechanics and welders. They about their future. gained first-hand information from our employees on the opportunities available Thank you again. I look forward to working in the construction industry — particularly together in the future. the equipment maintenance side of construction. Afterwards, the seniors Wally Foster joined a similar outing, which was being Instructor held at All Erection & Crane, for lunch Power Equipment Mechanics and an engine rebuild presentation. Maplewood Career Center

THANK YOU to our employees whose hard work, loyalty and dedication has earned Independence Excavating recognition as Top Workplace for the third consecutive year!

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