All Projects
MINERAL FABRICATION
Bluegrass technicians are scheduled to diamond wire saw two cuts at an elevation of forty feet within one foot of each other. The cuts will be made in a vertical duct that is a nine feet diameter pipe with one inch thick steel and one foot of refractory.
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
Bluegrass technicians wire sawed three, twenty-five feet by six feet diameter steel encased caissons then segmented into thirds. Twenty-four core samples were then taken from each for experimental testing at Auburn University. One of the three concrete caissons will be utilized and extend eighty feet deep to support the new bridge.
BRIGHTWATER PROJECT
KENNY CONSTRUCTION
Bluegrass technicians scheduled to make two isolation cuts for slurry wall demolition which measures four feet by sixty feet at thirty feet tall.
For more project details visit The Brightwater Project.
CMC
Bluegrass technicians scheduled to wire saw for the rocker beam cylinder pier replacement.
DOCK 3
Bluegrass technicians scheduled to dismantle mooring dolphin in large sections utilizing diamond wire sawing with all cuts taking place above the water line. An estimated 1,000 square feet will be cut.
JF BRENNAN LOCK 10
Bluegrass technicians diamond wire sawing forty feet deep notch from side of lock for new bulkhead slots to expand lock chamber.
MOTIVA
Bluegrass technicians scheduled to provide cutting services for segmenting compressor foundation. Foundation measures 39’6” by 17’ at 8’6”, which will be cut horizontally at elevation 112’4” with five vertical cuts. Total cutting is estimated at 1,394 square feet.
OFFSHORE CUTTING
Contractor: WildWell / BTI / Mactech
Bluegrass technicians competed multiple cuts at an average depth of one hundred twenty five feet. Each cut required the use of a single wire.
Quantity Dimensions of Cut Type
18 33 inches Conductor
18 22 inches Conductor
6 16 inches Conductor
4 44 inches Conductor
1 52 inches Leg
1 44 inches Pipe Leg
1 35 inches Pipe
WG YATES
Phase one of five for foundation removal of twenty-five total pump piers. Each mobilization will include diamond wire sawing of five piers in half and flush for removal so that new foundations can be installed.
ABC NUCOR STEEL
Diamond wire sawed in support of steel mill refurbishing.
ANSONIA
Diamond wire sawed copper furnace flameouts.
ANSONIA TEST
Performed test cutting of copper furnace flameouts.
ARKANSAS NUCLEAR STATION
Two 120-ton condensers were split in half so that four 60-ton sections could be removed. The diamond wire cut through 27,000 inconel tubes, steel pipes, and steel baffle plates.
BALFOUR BEATTY
Cut bridge caisson's 60' underwater.
BASELINE
Performed diamond wire sawing and Brokking for fish flume system.
BENICIA REFINERY
Diamond wire sawed compressor foundations for sectioning.
BIG ROCK POINT
Diamond wire sawed over 1,500 tons of highly activated and contaminated concrete surrounding the reactor vessel cavity to support the decommissioning.
BNSF BILLINGS
Taking less than a week, two Bluegrass technicians diamond wire sawed multiple, four feet by eighteen feet bridge piers for removal after the new railroad bridge was built.
BNSF BRIDGE MODIFICATIONS
Bluegrass technicians diamond wire sawed twenty feet by two feet riser blocks during train traffic, which reduces track time for replacement.
BRIDGE OF LIONS
Provided personnel and equipment to diamond wire saw fourteen piers and two bascules.
BRILLIANT DAM
Bluegrass technicians wire sawed a notch from nine piers which required eight feet deep wire access holes. The removed blocks were thirteen tons each and required one vertical and one horizontal cut per pier.
"Bluegrass' expertise in diamond wire sawing services was a great benefit to Dix Corporation while preparing for the installation of a spillway isolation gate at Brilliant Dam."
BUCKMAN'S BRIDGE
Diamond wire sawed footer sections for bridge expansion retrofits.
CHICKAMAUGA DAM
Bluegrass technicians re-cut the slot in a Tennessee dam. Total square feet of concrete cut was approximately three thousand feet.
CLEARWATER BRIDGE
Performed segmentation of bridge columns for removal.
CLINTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE
Wiresawed 14 piers and drilled nearly 300 core holes for anchor bolts, removing 121 cubic yards of concrete.
CY TEST CUTTING
Bluegrass diamond wire cut the carbon steel reactor nozzle mock-up. The nozzle was 55” in diameter with a 28” annulus.
DC COOK NUCLEAR
Bluegrass provided around-the-clock diamond wire cutting in support of SGRP. The entire 3’ thick roof sections, over four steam generators and enclosure walls, were diamond wire cut into 18, 15-ton sections and removed.
DH BLATTNER
Performed diamond wire sawing to segment (2) 6' diameter piers in less than an hour on a railroad bridge.
DIGESTER TANK
Used Brokk robotic hammer to demolish 2, 68' diameter digester lids.
DONOHUE INDUSTRIES
Diamond wire sawed track beams including sole plates during plant shut down.
FIU
Bluegrass performed a technology demonstration of the Marcrist MSW300 Wall Concrete Shaver, mounted to a remotely operated Brokk 250, as part of the FIU-HCET technology assessment program. Six hundred feet of uncoated concrete walls, coated concrete ceilings and coated brick walls were removed at 1/4" depths.
GINNA
The steam generators were to be removed and replaced through the containment dome. Bluegrass, using four robotic hammers around-the-clock, broke two large openings through the 3’ thick concrete with 3 layers of #18 rebar on 12” centers, while maintaining the integrity of the containment liner plate.
GRAND GULF NUCLEAR
Diamond wire sawing of a section of the AUX Building Rail Road Bay Concrete Wall; 17'x3'7"x1'4" thick; Diamond wire sawed 12" off the top of existing man-way.
HATFIELD
Diamond wire sawed crest off of dam for installation of new flood gates.
HOLT DAM
Turnkey removal of discharge ring for turbine and generator upgrade. Provided diamond wire sawing, robotic hammering, and core drilling for concrete removal.
HUMBOLDT PLANT
Bluegrass diamond wire cut a 250’ tall concrete ventilation stack located directly adjacent to the spent fuel storage area. Bluegrass cut the stack into ring sections of specified length, while working from a moveable, elevated platform. All cooling water was contained and recycled during the cutting process due to contamination potential.
I-10 BRIDGE REMOVAL
WILLIAMS BROTHERS/TEXAS DOT
Bluegrass technicians dismantled three piers, including two hammerhead piers, at the intersection of Beltway 8 and Interstate 10 west of downtown Houston at elevations up to seventy feet. Four vertical cuts, two per cap were forty-nine square feet with twenty-two #14 bars and fifteen #8 bars. There were four cuts on the columns, which were fifty-six square feet each that have fifty-four #18 bars each. The remaining straddle bent required two vertical cuts sixty square feet each and consisted of forty-four #14 bars each and twelve #11 bars. The two seven feet diameter columns (34.5 sq/ft) were cut once under cap. Total cutting was estimated to be at six hundred seventy-seven square feet.
I-45, PIERCE ELEVATED BRIDGE
Pierce Elevated Bridge- Diamond wire sawed 100s of columns in downtown Houston for new bridge utilizing 3-4 saws dialy.
INTERNATIONAL PAPER
Diamond wire sawed debarker drum.
JONESVILLE LOCK & DAM
Diamond wire sawed three pairs of concrete slots into the lock walls so that stoplogs could be installed in the slots.
KENTUCKY DAM POWER HOUSE
Diamond wire sawed slot for floating mooring bit.
KISSNER PRICE-STUBB DAM
Bluegrass technicians diamond wire sawed an ogee dam cut twelve feet by nine feet by three feet as well as core drilled three holes nine feet deep.
LACROSSE BOILING WATER REACTOR
Performed concrete and metal wire cutting for decommissioning.
LONDON
With a combination of down hole and wrap cutting technicians segmented miter gate recesses for the lock extension.
LOU CON INCORPORATED
Segmentation of lid by diamond wire saw for modifications to existing tank.
LOUISIANA AUDUBON
Cored drilled bridge caisson fifty feet deep at four inches in diameter for the Audubon Bridge Project.
For complete bridge project details visit: http://www.timedla.com/bridge/audubon/
LSU STADIUM
dismantle upper structure of stadium for removations
LUCITE
Cut and removed 2 end risers from a steel boiler plate which were 11' diameter and 5" thick with a refractory lining 10 inches thick.
MONTGOMERY LOCK AND DAM
OCCI, Inc
LIFT GATE REPLACEMENT
Bluegrass technicians diamond wire sawed 4’ square by 56’ vertical section, which required drilling a battered 56’ deep wire access hole and cut 56’ by 4’ twice per six areas then horizontally cut six times to section for rigging to allow for new lift gate slot equipment and new concrete.
NUCOR ROLLING MILL UPGRADE