Hump Day

So yesterday was hardly exciting at all. Which meant that I better get on with it today. I did hear from Justin Clausen at Peterson Contractors, with a preliminary estimate on bank protection for the bridge.

I then input both his proposal and the one from Spicer Group, the structural engineers into my own CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT database. Yippee.

I then spoke with Gene Walsh of the Army Corps of Engineers. and this is what he said. That we were not part of special waters in Iowa, so that makes permitting easier. That our 1st phase of bank armoring around the bridge abutments could probably be handled in 2-4 weeks. We need to submit the application, the contractors estimate, and drawings of the site view and cross section detailing height, width, the amount of cubic feet that the are going to need of rip rap, and how many feet this will go out into the water. Also send pictures. Hand drawn is ok. He also needs to know if we are on a 2x1 or 3x1 pitch from the banks.

Just copied that back to the contractors, so good blogging.