TRAVERSE CITY, MICH., JAN. 11, 2010 – Get a load of this! Team Elmer’s, a family-owned company specializing in site development and employing more than 300 skilled personnel, announced the biggest, the best and the most unique projects in 2009. The company announces the awards in order to recognize the partners and the creativity and dedication that helped complete these projects.
Owner: Michigan Department of Transportation
Details: While working on the new bridge deck project on M-22, Elmer's Concrete poured its one-millionth yard of concrete in Traverse City!
Owner: King's Challenge Golf Course
Details: We pulverized and repaved the existing 8-foot wide cart paths, all while tiptoeing along the greens. We also rebuilt the tee box areas and changed the grades on the fairways. It was very nimble work for such heavy machinery!
Owner: ITC Power
Contractor: Total Foundations
Details: We poured 90 yards of concrete into a large caisson "hole" for the Power Line Tower Foundation in Croton near the Newaygo-Freemont area. The trucks poured their contents in less than five minutes each to fill this crater.
Owners: Lake County Road Commission & Conservation Resource Alliance
Engineer: Wade Trim
Details: We went digging 28 feet under Silver Creek River in Luther near Cadillac to set the foundation for an improved bridge box culvert and road crossing.
The project as a whole helped preserve the trout and other wildlife in Silver Creek.
Owner: Wexford County Landfill
Details: Not only digging 60 feet with scrapers, but also moving 107,203 cubic yards of material in a mere 15 days was required to create this new landfill cell.
Get a load of this: 100,000 yards of material covers a football field almost six stories high!
Owner: Ottawa County Farms
Details: Elmer's moved 390,698 cubic yards of material near Coopersville to create new landfill cells. That's a football field almost 24 stories high!
Owner: GTB Turtle Creek Casino & Hotel
Construction Manager: R. Clarke Associates
Details: To ensure the least amount of impact to casino goers, the parking lot reconstruction and entrance relocation project started two weeks late and finished one week early. To save time, money and the environment, 10,000 yards of pulverized asphalt were recycled and used during this project.
Owner: The City of Manistee
Engineer: Abonmarche
Details: A 54-inch diameter brick storm water discharge structure was installed 20 feet below grade in the early 1900s on a path that runs under the railroad tracks and to the river. A sink hole developed next to the tracks from brick deterioration in the tunnel system. Elmer's replaced missing brick and coated it with Sprayroq to reinforce the structural integrity of the system. When the trains went speeding overhead, there was a whole lot of shaking going on!
Owner: American Tower
Contractor: Cell Air
Details: Our crane lifted a cell tower 285 feet in St. Helen. We even notice better reception from here.
Owner: Traverse City Area Public Schools
Engineer: Gosling Czubak
Details: The West Middle School parking lots were completely redesigned for better traffic flow, which required eight weeks of multiple crew construction to finish the project on schedule.
Contractor: Rohde Construction
Details: We used our creativity to transfer fill sand across the road via a conveyor system. During sharp temperature declines, retaining wall builders lifted and placed two million pounds of versa-loc block to help the team stay warm!
Construction Manager: R Clarke Associates
Details: Some of the weeks during this project had five separate crews working on various sections at the same time.
Team Elmer’s, a family owned company since 1956, specializes in site development, including excavation, earth moving, underground utility installation, retaining wall construction, directional boring, manhole rehabilitation, aggregate production, concrete ready-mix, asphalt installation (commercial and residential), milling, and crane/rigging, among other specialties. Today, Traverse City, Mich.-based Team Elmer’s has grown to include over 300 skilled personnel.
To learn more about Team Elmer’s, call (231) 943-3443 or email info@teamelmers.com.
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