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Eastern Excavating recently installed a 68 unit stacked retain-it modular stormwater system for the Montgomery Street Residences Project in Savannah, GA. The stacked infiltration system stores 15,885 CF, had notched weir/baffle outlet control, access manholes, and was approved by the City of Savannah. System was set in two days while dodging Tropical Storm Elsa.

CP&P’s “Employee and New Hire Referral Incentive” program provides cash earnings for both the ‘recruiting’ employee as well as the ‘newly hired’ employee! The program requires that both employees meet attendance (max points allowed), safety (zero safety incidents/ injuries) and write- up (zero disciplinary actions) criteria in order to qualify at each of three stages-...

Construction Professionals Inc. recently installed a 14 unit retain-it modular stormwater system for the Moxy by Marriott Project in Charleston, SC. The detention system holds 2,503 CF, had orifice outlet control, access manholes, and was approved by the City of Charleston. Excavators were used to set the retain-it units, (heaviest pick only 11,000 +/- lbs.)

Construction on VDOT’s I-64 High Rise Bridge project began during the summer of 2018 and is expected to be completed by December 2022. This Design-Build project was awarded to the Granit-Parsons-Corman team with an approximate construction cost of $409.6 million. VDOT determined a design-build contracting approach would expedite delivery of the I-64 High Rise Bridge...

ClearFlow had the opportunity to upgrade an existing Bar Screen Vault to a Comminutor Vault for the Prince William County Adult Detention Center. The upgrade reduces maintenance on the line by adding a shredder for solids. The Contractor blocked off the Bar Screen Vault, cleaned it out and removed the Bar Screen, then added the...

Barnwell Regional Airport is a General Aviation Airport owned and operated by Barnwell County, SC. The Airport was originally constructed in 1942 by the US Army Air Corps and used as a training base for B-25 bombers during World War II. A section of HDPE (flexible plastic) drainage pipe between two of the airport’s hangers...

The MD 32 Widening Project in Howard County, MD consists of 242 Linear Feet of Double Monolithic 10’ x 9’ Precast Box Culvert. The Martinsburg Precast Plant produced these in 60 sections, with the heaviest section weighing over 27 tons. The project also included 206 Linear Feet of 6’x7’ Precast Box Culvert & 198 Linear...

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) project for Route 10 in Chesterfield County required 136 LF of Single Precast 8’x5’ Box Culvert in a Quad Line (Four Cells.) Because there would be less that 2’ of fill over the box culvert, VDOT required the use of Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing (CRR) steel. The layout also required 30...

Just before the break for the holidays, on December 21st CP&P was contacted by grading and utility contractor J. L. Raper Corporation out of Statesville, NC.  They were just awarded an emergency sinkhole repair project located at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Bus Terminal Parking Lot on Wilkinson Boulevard just outside of downtown Charlotte, NC.  The...

Tropical storms are often blamed for collapsed roadways, however many times a large rain event like a tropical storm is merely the “final straw” in a series of issues leading up to a critical culvert failure. The flexible pipe culvert that recently failed in the Lake Smith/Haygood area of Virginia Beach was one such example,...