Billy Douglas
This month we recognize Billy Douglas as our Safety Award winner! Billy is a long time Haydon Bridge employee and was nominated for this monthly award by his job foreman and others for various reasons.
Billy is currently working on a project in the swamps of Western KY. He is always on the lookout for ways to improve the project site to keep others from encounters with the things that lurk in the swamp (snakes!). In particular, he weed eats the areas around the tool house and stores materials in such a way that will keep snakes away, or at least allow someone to see them first. He also makes sure the doors on tool houses and equipment stay closed so snakes can’t creep in when no one is looking!
Please join us in recognizing Billy Douglas for doing the right thing! We are fortunate to have Billy as an employee! Thanks for all you do Billy! The new hard hat is on the way.
Washington Co – Long Lick Creek Bridge Expansion – Drilled Shaft Construction
If you have traversed KY 555 lately, you would have noticed the influx in highway construction this summer as a means to better improve the flow of traffic in the area. As part of this project, Haydon Bridge Company is beginning to widen the bridge that crosses Long Lick Creek. We have just installed our two drilled shaft foundations for the new piers and completed Cross-Hole Sonic Logging Testing. This is done to ensure that the pier foundations that support the bridge have cured correctly without cracking and meet the appropriate specifications. We will soon be beginning column construction and look forward to completing another great project right here in our community!
Hopkins Beam Setting
The Hopkins County crew did an excellent job with this span 2 beam setting on KY 502. Always helps to have a good critical lift plan in place to assure all hoisting, rigging, & crane radius are within safety specification. Plan your work & work your plan!!
Cumberland River Column Construction
Pier column construction has begun at the Cumberland River bridge site! These columns are classified as Structural Mass Concrete due to their size, which means they have strict temperature control guidelines. When concrete goes through the curing process, it generates heat, and pours that are of certain dimensions can be susceptible to high peak temperatures and temperature gradients. If the core temperatures or the temperature gradients between the core and the edges are too high, it can cause thermal cracking. On these pours, we monitor core and edge temperatures and adjust thermal control procedures accordingly.
Kenton County Kick Off!!
We have recently started Construction on the first culvert which is a 12×6 RCBC Cast in place Box Culvert. This culvert will reside beneath the new roundabout at the current intersection of Mt. Zion Road and Bristow Rd. Crews have started out with a bang by completing the first section of footer!!
