

It retained ESI of Tennessee in Kennesaw, Ga., to engineer the project and to serve as the construction and start-up manager. Notice the steel mesh on top of the rebar, making it safer for workers to move around while concrete was being placed.Ĭorn Products decided to serve as its own general contractor, signing the contracts for each subcontractor involved in the project.

Lindblad placed “mud mats” to hardware for holding the anchor bolts in position during placement. Right: The precision location of anchor bolts was one of the most important elements of this project (see Fig. Left: This 4½ -foot-thick mat slab will support a coal-fired generation plant with a boiler weighing more than 6 million pounds.
