Spring construction round-up.

• Position: SPECIAL SECTION: Building Alaska

The spring construction round up was compiled in January when several hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects were still out to bid, awaiting awards, or waiting until after break up. Plus, we've included several projects in standalone articles this month. Here is a sampling of some of the work Alaska contractors are currently engaged in around the state.

Cape Lisburne

Orion Marine Contractors, Inc. bid on the Cape Lisburne project in July of 2015 and was awarded the $41 million project in September of 2015. The five-year project consists of replacing a 5,200-foot seawall that protects the runway at Cape Lisburne, a US Air Force radar site located along the coast in northwest Alaska. A total of 90,000 cubic yards of armor rock and 180,000 cubic yards of smaller rock will be mined at the existing quarry located one mile from the runway. Long reach excavators will be used to remove the existing armor rock and to build the new seawall.

Project planning included procuring a twenty-man camp, equipment purchases, work planning/sequencing, material and consumable purchases, and performing the initial quarry survey.

Work completed onsite (from mobilization in July 2015 to October 2016) included initial quarry development, rock production, satellite communications, and camp setup. This year Orion will continue with rock production in the quarry and begin removing the existing seawall to construct the new seawall.

Fairbanks

HaskellDavis JV is the general contractor for the UAF (University of Alaska Fairbanks) Power Plant, designed by architect Design Alaska. The Power Plant will house two 140,000 pound/hour circulating fluidized bed boilers and a 17 megawatt steam turbine that will heat the UAF campus. The plan has an anticipated completion date of June 30,2018.

Also in Fairbanks, Davis Constructors is the general contractor for the UAF Engineering Facility, designed by architect ECI/Hyer Architecture. The four-story, 116,900-square-foot Engineering building has a projected completion date in December and cost $80 million.

Watterson Construction has been awarded a $20 million project to construct a 30,000-square-foot F-35 flight simulator at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks. The project will begin this spring with an anticipated completion date in the fall of 2018. Watterson anticipates that at peak construction the project will employ forty workers.

Unalakleet

Orion Marine Contractors is performing work on Unalakleet River Revetment...