FORM MARKS® SPRING 2021 Hurricane Evacuation Route Built With EFCO ... p. 34 FORM MARKS® SPRING 2021 Volume 70, No.1 Published since 1951 for and about the people in the business of concrete construction. CONTENTS COMMERCIAL & HIGHRISE Let’s talk: Ottawa, Canada ................................... Forming Thick Concrete Walls, Thick Enough to Stop X-Rays .................................................4-5 Letters to the Editor SAFETY SEASON Richmond and Berea, Kentucky........ High to Low Walls, Everything is Change of Address In Iowa, we had a pretty decent March as Possible Using EFCO Formwork Solutions .......................... 6-7 New Subscriber Requests Charlotte, North Carolina................... How Can You Quickly Adjust to Varying Floor Heights? .... 8-9 far as weather. Highs in the 50s and 60s and Los Angeles, California ...................... Using Fewer Ties is How to Reduce the Need for Patching .................................................................10-11 Please include an address, telephone lows in the high 30s and 40s. The maple trees Balamban Cebu, Philippines ............. Want to be the Last to Start and the First to Finish? ............12-13 number and email address on all letters outside my office are budding out and the red- UTILITIES & WATER TREATMENT and inquiries. We reserve the right to edit winged blackbirds have arrived; a sure sign that letters for clarity, style and space and to spring is almost here. Another sure sign is the use them electronically and in print. Padre Hurtado, Chile ..............................A Partnership in Innovation ......................................................14-15 presence of construction cones, “single lane North Vancouver, Canada.................. Forming Round Concrete Walls ..........................................16-17 Biddeford, Maine ................................ Formwork Systems Help Speed Construction of Mail To: ahead” digital signs and concrete trucks lining a Saco River Facility ............................................................... 18-19 Editor side street in downtown Des Moines. People in Fenton, Missouri ................................. Helping the Customer Build Efficiently ............................. 20-21 FORM MARKS Buenos Aires, Argentina .................... First Time Customer Is Happy With Outcome ................. 22-23 Cathy Howell Iowa will say there are only two seasons; winter Reading, Pennsylvania ....................... Construct Any Radius with the EFCO Corporation and construction season and by all accounts, Revolutionary REDI-RADIUS System ................................ 24-25 1800 N.E. Broadway Ave. construction season is on our doorstep. BRIDGES & HIGHWAYS Des Moines, IA 50313-2644 Construction season means safety season. In FORM MARKS Assistant Editor Hertford, North Carolina .................... New Bridge Replaces the Old One Built 2019 alone, 130,000 construction workers missed When Model T Cars Traversed The Roads ....................... 26-27 Dawn Hanson Kenner, Louisiana ............................... Planning to Help You Realize the Most Productivity .......28-29 days of work due to injury, and OSHA reports Monterrey, N.L Mexico....................... Self-Spanning PLATE GIRDER Works Well When Email: that one in five deaths among U.S. workers is in There is Irregular Terrain ....................................................30-33 Galveston to Houston, Texas ..............Expansion to Eliminate Traffic Jams During [email protected] the construction industry. The Bureau of Labor Hurricane Evacuations .......................................................... 34-37 [email protected] Statistics has recorded that falls account for 33% of all construction deaths each year. This issue CIVIL & INDUSTRIAL For general information, email: of FORM MARKS serves as a reminder to be [email protected] Sungai Kapar Indah, Malaysia .......... Shoring Needs to Be Assembled Only Once, or visit us on the web at safe, look for existing hazards, and be reminded Simply Adjust Jacks for Height Variances .......................38-39 Lehi, Utah ............................................. SUPER STUD & E-BEAM to the Rescue ............................40-41 www.efcoforms.com of “Construction’s “FATAL FOUR”–FALLS, Middlesex, New Jersey ..................... Get Architectural Concrete Pour After Pour Using STRUCK BY AN OBJECT, ELECTROCUTIONS Steel Faced Formwork ........................................................42-43 United Kingdom ..................................... Historical Sewerage System Meets Halfway Mark in & CAUGHT IN OR IN BETWEEN AN OBJECT. Improvement Project ............................................................... 44-45 Together, these four account for over 60% of all These quotes can be seen ‘‘ construction related deaths. PARKING & TRANSPORTATION throughout FORM MARKS. They contain customer feedback given Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru ................... Achieve Multiple Diameters With One Set of Forms ......46-47 ‘‘to EFCO Field Supervisors at the Construction season is here, be careful, be Santa Clara, California ....................... Single-Sided Wall Truss Proves Its smart and be on the lookout for potential safety Value After Use ....................................................................48-49 jobsite. Bangkok, Thailand .............................. EFCO’s High-Load Shoring Supports Cross Beams in problems. Watch out for each other. Construction of Yellow Line ............................................... 54-57 OIL & ENERGY ® The EFCO PLATE GIRDER form system Cathy Howell is a registered trademark. This product Brillion, Wisconsin .............................. Depending on EFCO’s Expertise to Help Gain Efficiency in was designed for use with products VP & Director of Advertising Concrete Construction ........................................................58-59 manufactured by EFCO, and it is recommended that it not be commingled SAFETY AWARD ..................................................... 50-53 with products of other manufacturers’ Featuring a contractor that has been recognized for outstanding safety practices on the jobsite. forming systems. 2 |FORM MARKS|SPRING 2021 www.EFCOFORMS.com |3 COMMERCIAL & HIGHRISE PROJECT LOCATION FORMING THICK CONCRETE WALLS, Ottawa, Canada EFCO EQUIPMENT PLATE GIRDER®, E-BEAM® and SUPER THICK ENOUGH TO STOP X-RAYS STUD® Wall forms, E-Z DECK® WATERDON CONSTRUCTION TEAM Neal L. Hall .............Senior Vice President Russel W. Grass, Jr ............ Vice President TESTING FACILITY Nick Norton .....................Project Manager First time customer, Waterdon Waterdon with the assembly of gangs, as for each placement. EFCO’s customer Simon Johns .........Project Superintendent Construction, Ltd., was contracted well as helping them plan and cycle the service helped Waterdon achieve their EFCO FORMWORK by the project owner to build a testing equipment for the first and second pours. pour dates by producing detailed drawings SPECIALISTS–GEORGETOWN facility for medical sanitizing equipment. quickly and shipping equipment to the Alex Lacasse ...............Territory Manager The equipment uses an Electrical Linear Due to the volume of concrete required for jobsite in a timely fashion. Richard Wilder ...............Field Supervisor Accelerator to produce X-rays to sterilize each pour, the adherence to scheduling on Shah Khan ................................... Engineer equipment. Due to the X-rays produced, the job was critical. Concrete placement The formwork systems that EFCO the testing facility walls and roof slab was scheduled on Saturdays to enable the provided outperformed the customer’s HOW TO CONNECT were required to be 13'-9 1/2" (4200 mm) concrete supplier to have multiple plants expectations and was an overall success https://waterdon.ca/ thick. This required a tricky tie situation providing the 160 yd3 (120 m3)/hour required on the project. ◊ in the corners and for the wall slabs. WALL FORMING EFCO was brought on board by Waterdon to provide the concrete formwork solution for this project. Their decision was made due to EFCO having the expertise and experience to make their project a success. An EFCO Jump Bracket System was chosen to form the concrete walls, utilizing a combination of PLATE GIRDER® plus SUPER STUD® and E-BEAM® wall forming system. The forms were cycled three times for five pours (two wall pours, approximately 12' (3600 mm) high each and three roof slab pours of 2' (600 mm), 6' (1800 mm) and 6' (1800 mm). EFCO’s E-Z DECK shoring system was chosen for the roof slabs. EFCO ASSISTED WITH SAFETY, ASSEMBLING AND CYCLING Construction began in August 2020 and Due to the volume of concrete required the final pour was completed in December for each pour, the adherence to 2020. Being a new EFCO customer, EFCO scheduling on the job was critical. provided field service support to assist 4 |FORM MARKS|SPRING 2021 www.EFCOFORMS.com |5 COMMERCIAL & HIGHRISE PROJECT LOCATION HIGH TO LOW WALLS, Richmond and Berea, Kentucky EFCO EQUIPMENT EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE USING EFCO LITE® RISING SUN EFCO FORMWORK SOLUTIONS DEVELOPING TEAM Jason Akers .................................President Shane Carpenter ..............Project Manager Jack Hammond ....Project Superintendent EFCO FORMWORK SPECIALISTS–COLUMBUS DOUBLE-DUTY FACILITY Ric Klinedinst .......Sr. Territory Manager When the Madison County Board of walls in the balcony area being done in Brian Jenne .....................Field Supervisor Education decided to