Brayman Completing Charleroi L&D Project
Waterways Journal
20 June 2011
Brayman Construction Corporation, a leading general and specialty
foundation contractor in Saxonsburg. Pa., is finishing up work on the
$96 million Charleroi Locks and Dam project on the Monongahela River.
Working with the Trumbull Corporation. Brayman constructed portions of
a new river wall. The work included "in-the-wet" construction
techniques for drilled shafts and mass concrete placement, as well as
construction of a disposal facility and concrete batch plant, which
will be turned over to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers upon completion
of the project.
After stabilizing the existing downstream river wall. the contractors
performed underwater excavation along the length of the new river wall
and drove sheet pile cutoff walls for the new river monoliths. Workers
installed 78-inch-diameter drilled shaft foundations for the monoliths
and placed concrete for the monoliths using tremie methods. Each
monolith required three lifts of 15 feet.
Recently completed river projects include emergency erosion repair of
the dam at Allegheny River Lock 6. construction of 17 sheet pile cells
of various diameters for a new barge unloading facility at the Cardinal
Power Station, just south of Steubenville. Ohio. and construction of
the award-winning Kanawha River Bridge at Charleston. W.Va.
The bridge has an overall length of 2.975 feet and its main span
is the longest continuous segmental span in the U.S. Completed in
September 2010. it was recognized as the No. 1 Bridge for 2009 by Roads
and Bridges magazine.
Brayman started out in 1947 as a family business with a staff of two.