Shoring System Meets NCDOT Requirements.(North Carolina Department of Transportation)(B.R.S. Contracting, Inc.)
Construction, October, 2006 by McRay, James
By James McRay
B.R.S. Contracting used the Shore-Trak(TM) system during installation of a 36-inch water main under Providence Road in Charlotte, N.C.
The rules were clear: do not make the excavation any bigger than the shoring system, and never allow the excavation walls to be unsupported at any time. These were the tough requirements set down by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) when Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities in North Carolina let the $3.4-million project to install a 36-inch water main in the Andover-McAlway Rd. area of Charlotte. The new potable water line tapped into an existing 54-inch water main pipeline running directly under busy Providence Road.
Only one contractor, B.R.S. Contracting, Inc., of...
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