Masonry Magazine September 2010 Page. 43
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Peterson Air Force Base SABER Honors Victims of 9-11
By Michael Brown
On April 30, 2010, a floor beam from the World Trade Center was delivered to the JBI Construction warehouse. JBI Construction, a Service Disabled Veteran Small Business established in 1965 as part of a joint venture partnership with SB Construction, was asked to build a 9-11 Memorial for the Peterson Air Force Base, incorporating the damaged steel beam. Designed and managed by the 21st Civil Engineering Squadron via SABER, construction was a collaborative effort fortified with a spirit of dedication and remembrance. The memorial dedication ceremony was May 18, 2010.
The plaque reads: "In Remembrance of the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost at the hands of terrorists on September 11, 2001. This steel beam - recovered from the remnants of the World Trade Center - is pointing towards New York, and pays respect to the lives lost there. The Pentagon-shaped planter honors our fallen comrades and friends at the Pentagon. The Pennsylvania soil in the planter pays tribute to the brave passengers of Flight 93. From the ashes of the terrorists attack on September 11 arose U.S. Northern Command, a combatant command ready to defend the homeland and support civil authorities. This memorial is for all to know that U.S. Northern Command stands ready to defend liberty. Let us never forget."
Fraco Products Requisitioned for Turcot After Exchange
Bridges and Roadway interchanges are examples of infrastructures that sometimes require prompt and urgent actions. With global works requiring an investment of $6.5 million (CAN), the St-Peter Interchange, located in the southwest of Montreal at the junction of Route 138 to Highway A-20, is subject since October 2009 to repair works. Made on five piles located under the access ramps, these works are made possible because of the use of Fraco mast climbing work platforms. Recently, the Canadian-based company was given the mandate to supply the same equipment for a similar project at the Turcot Interchange in Montreal.
St-Peter Interchange
In order to ensure safe works, general contractor Les Grands Travaux SOTER Inc. (GTS) decided in autumn 2009 to ask for Fraco mast climbers. Ten units were moved to the project location, some mounted on free standing bases, other on ground bases. Installation and dismantle were made by Fraco technicians.
The repair works made on concrete piles involved different phases: identification of damage areas; concrete chipping; cleaning, steel insertion and rebar reinforcement; formworks installation and concrete pouring. If telescopic boom lifts can be useful for tasks such as the identification of damage areas, it is different for the other types of works, GTS had to rely on a stable and flexible access system that can support the weight of tools, hammers, workers and all materials needed to repair each pile. Because of their high load capacity and their large surface of work, Fraco's ACT-8 mast climbers appeared to be the ideal equipment to complete the job.
The size of the piles depends on their positioning under the ramps and their