Barnard Construction
Winter 2016
OnSite
P e o p le b u ild in g f o r P e o p le .
PG&E L-402 Program Makes History
At V-214 in Cottonwood, California, the L-402 crew installed a valve automation and in-line inspection tool launcher barrel. The L-402 Program
was completed as the largest liquefied natural gas/compressed natural gas (LNG/CNG) project in PG&E history.
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o keep 44,000 Redding, California-area residential and commercial customers in service during natural gas line
strength tests, Barnard Pipeline, Inc.’s (Barnard’s) L-402 Program Team supported Pacific Gas and Electric
Company (PG&E) in completing the largest LNG/CNG project attempted in PG&E history. This effort required the
injection of 1,351,853 gallons of LNG over 19 days, all of which was transported by trucks, each on a 30-hour round
trip. At peak, Barnard employed over 200 craft employees with an additional 50 subcontracted employees. PG&E and
the Barnard Team estimate that this complex project required over 1.5 million man-hours from design, construction,
inspection, gas control, management, and vendors and suppliers. The Program finished with zero at fault dig-ins or
line strikes, and zero OSHA recordable incidents. The team also received numerous customer appreciation notices.
Since 2013, Barnard has participated in PG&E’s natural gas pipeline modernization program dedicated to strengthening
and improving the integrity and safety of its natural gas transmission system in Northern California. A project within this
program, L-402 included 12 contracts comprised of five valve automations, one in-line inspection site, and two hydrotest
sections, all spread across 38 miles of single-feed lateral transmission pipeline. To complete this work, Barnard conducted
24 strength tests, automated 8 valves, and safely completed over 100 challenging excavations involving wet and “in the
street” conditions. The Project began in early March 2016 and reached substantial completion in mid-October 2016.
Barnard would like to thank valued subcontractors Rader Excavating, Inc., Machado and Sons, Inc., Material Testing, Inc.,
Lonestar West Hydrovac, and Badger Daylighting Corporation.
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Stabilizing Wilson Lock
C-44 Reservoir Project
Notables
Dawn Dobson Joins Barnard
Meet Our New Employees
Tie-in Activities at Lake Mead
Barren Ridge Energized
Wedding Bells
Barnard’s “Next Generation”
Stabilizing Wilson Lock
notables
Barnard ranked
among the nation’s
top contractors in a
number of disciplines
this year, according
to Engineering NewsRecord’s 2016 Top
400 Sourcebook
released in early
October. These
rankings include: #1
in Hydroplants; #5 in
Water Transmission
Lines; #6 in Dams
and Reservoirs; #6 in
Petroleum Pipelines;
and #9 in Power
Transmission and
Distribution.
The Boone Dam
Exploratory Drilling
and Grouting Team
reached a milestone
by completing their
Low Mobility Grout
(LMG) operation this
fall. The Team will now
install High Mobility
Grout while Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA)
tests the effectiveness
of the LMG.
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labama’s abnormally dry fall has been hard on agriculture but good for concrete
placement at Barnard’s Wilson Lock Modifications Project for the Tennessee Valley
Authority in Florence, Alabama. Following a design by Hatch, we are stabilizing and
upgrading the 1950’s-era lock on the Tennessee River. The lock is operated by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
In recent months, the
Team completed Phases
1 and 2 concrete, placing
nearly 10,000 CY without
a single quality concern.
The concrete is being
supplied by Ready Mix
USA. Barnard’s team also
installed a cofferdam and
dewatering system to allow
for excavation in preparation
for Phase 3 concrete. Phase
3 requires 21 lifts that climb
108 feet. As of publication,
the team had completed up The Wilson Lock Team works on Phase 3 concrete placement.
to lift five on Phase 3. Early in 2017, subcontractor Nicholson will mobilize to begin work
on the installation and tensioning of 22 horizontal anchors and 4 vertical anchors. Barnard
crews are installing sleeves for the horizontal anchors in the concrete placement currently
underway. Safety has been a big focus at Wilson. We are proud to say that we have worked
over 44,000 man-hours without a recordable or lost time accident.
Foundation Excavation Begins at C-44 Reservoir
A
t the C-44 Reservoir Project near
Indiantown, Florida, our Team is
wrapping up deconstructive testing as a
final step in test section development for
construction of the 30-foot-high earthen
embankment that will encircle a new
3,500-acre reservoir for the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. Deconstructive
testing included excavating previously
installed drain pipe and manholes to verify
alignment, identifying any settlement, and
The 150-foot radial stacker offloads and stockpiles 80,000
verifying compaction. Subcontractor H2R of the 620,000 tons of drain sand slated for construction of
now begins geological borings to identify the toe trench, blanket and chimney drain, and perimeter
the material and depths for a permanent canal lining.
toe trench. A dry November also allowed subcontractor McDonald Construction Corp. to
begin excavating the foundation and existing ditches and canals onsite. To date, almost
1,000 feet of foundation has been excavated to the required elevation. Barnard crews are
also moving and updating access roads to accommodate the new work activities on this
four-year, multi-package project designed by HDR.
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Dawn Dobson Joins our Business Development Team
B
arnard is pleased to introduce our new Underground Construction Business
Development Manager, Dawn Dobson. Throughout her 24-year career in
tunneling and underground mining, Dawn has held supervisory and engineering
roles on large, complex transportation and water/wastewater projects. She earned
a B.S. in Mining Engineering from Montana Tech of the University of Montana
in 1992 and then began her career with Consolidation Coal Company (now
CONSOL Energy) near Pittsburgh, where she worked as a Miner, Safety Inspector
and crew Foreman. Most recently, she was Project Manager during the completion
of Kiewit’s $272 million Devil’s Slide Tunnel Project in California. As Barnard’s
Underground Business Development Manager, Dawn will conduct client outreach
regarding future projects, coordinate with joint venture partners, and prepare
qualification and proposal packages. Dawn can be reached at dawn.dobson@
barnard-inc.com or (406) 586-1995.
Dawn Dobson
Meet Our New Employees
Adam Beck,
Project Engineer
B.S., Construction Engineering
Technology
Montana State University
Adam joins our Estimating Team at the
Home Office.
Brittany McNamee,
Marketing Coordinator
B.S., Marketing with minors in Int’l. Business
and Entrepreneurship
Montana State University
Brittany joins the Marketing Team at the Home
Office in Bozeman.
Michael Dishong,
Project Engineer
B.S., Civil Engineering Technology
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Michael joins our Muskrat Falls Team in
Labrador, Canada.
Erin Morrison,
Administrative Assistant
B.S., Marketing and Management
Minot State University
Erin joins our Safety and Equipment Teams at
the Home Office.
L3PS Team Prepares for Tie-in Outages
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ork at the Discharge Aqueducts Project within the Lake Mead Low Lake Level Pumping Station (L3PS)
Project has reached tie-in-focused activities for the 120-inch pipe, both inside the concrete valve vaults
and in the excavation ditch. Pipe installation will be followed by backfilling with CLSM, in-place mortar lining,
installation of the valves, and testing, all in advance of the tie-ins,
which are critical activities in that they will require three outages
of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA’s) pumping
stations and water treatment plants. Elsewhere on the L3PS
site, the Access Shaft drill and blast and concrete lining are now
complete to a 490-foot depth. The shaft will be 525 feet deep at
completion; the remaining 35 feet, however, will be excavated
at a later scheduled date when crews develop the tunnels and
forebay. Our L3PS Team now shifts focus to accessing an existing
450-foot-deep Surge Shaft, constructed under a previous contract A crew installs pipe at the Lake Mead Project site.
as part of SNWA’s new Intake No. 3 system. Following access and set up, Barnard crews will begin pre-excavation
grouting and excavation of the Connector Tunnel and Riser Shaft. Construction of the 34 drilled well shafts by our
key subcontractor North American Drillers is now more than 50 percent complete.
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Season’s Greetings!
Barren Ridge Project Energized
At the Barren Ridge Renewable Transmission
Project, we’re wrapping up site restoration and
hydroseeding activities beneath the new 230kV
double- and triple-circuit transmission lines
that have now been energized for more than
two months. The 62 miles of new conductor,
running from the Mojave Desert and through
Southern California’s Angeles National Forest,
now bring renewable energy to the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power’s more than
1.4 million customers in LA. Black & Veatch
designed the project under Barnard’s Engineer
Procure Construct contract.
Wedding Bells
Barnard’s “Next Generation”
Charlie Slattery and Mallory Crandall were married on
September 24, 2016, in Roseland, Virginia.
Baby girl born to Tyler and Katelin Ross. Adelyn Rose
Ross was born on July 24, 2016, weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz.