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Site Preparation
The term site preparation covers a wide range of activities that are defined by the project's design. However, regardless of the scope of work, it is the key to a successful project. Site preparation is the infrastructure upon which the project is constructed. These activities typically include site clearing and grubbing; rough grading of drainage swells; installation of construction roadways and laydown areas; construction of parking lots and pads for temporary facilities; and development of erosion control measures.
To create space for an expansion project at a Gulf Coast refinery, two obsolete units – a sulfur dioxide gas unit and a sulfur conversion unit – were demolished. RECON cleared the site of all above and below ground structures and utilities. The underground portion required excavations to 8 feet below grade.
Project Features
- Demolishing 2 cooling towers, 4 ASTs, 8 caustic vessels, 10 acid vessels, 2 heat exchangers, pumps and compressors, compressor building, and 52,000 linear feet of aboveground pipin
- Removing 10,000 cubic yards of concrete foundations, 65,000 linear feet of underground piping, 3,000 linear feet of electrical duct bank and 85,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from below the ground surface
- Constructing new roads, railroad sub-base and building pads with 45,000 cubic yards of material.
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Project Highlight
GT Omniport, a multimodal facility located in Port Arthur, Texas, is an industrial park and liquids terminal offering rail, truck, barge, pipeline and deepwater ship transloading services. The environmental remediation and civil service construction project included soil preparation, demolishing the concrete and steel structures, clearing, grubbing, crushing concrete, beneficial reuse of of crushed concrete, and soil stabilization using RECON’s patented blend of reagents.