Specialty Contractors Are Keeping Busy: Price increases and learning how to scrutinize contracts
One unexpected headache for specialty contractors this year is dealing with explosive price increases of materials.

Piping for Power
Scheck Industries’ most recent project on the East Coast is constructing the balance of plant piping and equipment for units one and two of PSEG Power’s Linden Energy Facility in Linden, NJ.

Tilting Upward
Specializing in turnkey concrete, tilt-up construction and providing in-house engineering for over 17 years, Seretta Construction has perfected solutions that save time and money for clients.

Building on Soft Ground
Nicholson Construction Co. is now offering Geotextile Encased Column (GEC) technology for ground improvement systems in the U.S.

Jet Grouting Replaces Failing Bulkhead Wall
To support a delicate failing steel sheet piling bulkhead wall at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Pier 8, in New York, Layne GeoConstruction provided integral structural support and soil stabilization by constructing a system of reinforced jet grout columns behind and adjacent to the existing bulkhead.

How to Extend a Wharf
To extend the wharf south of quay 24-4 in a seismic zone at San Diego’s National City Marine Terminal, DGI-Menard chose liquefaction mitigation and slope stabilization using vibrocompaction and dry bottom feed stone columns.

Safe Demolition
Under a tight time schedule and extremely stringent safety requirements, CST Environmental Inc. is undertaking a two-year, $20-million project at a Northern California power-plant.

Bearing the Load
The first in the U.S. to incorporate “super-critical” technology that converts coal to electricity more efficiently with reduced emissions....