Autumn is finally here! It is the season of falling leaves, crisp cool mornings, and football. Fall is a great season and one of our favorites. The weather is almost perfect with enough daylight to complete those remaining outdoor projects. Grand Industrial is still ready to take on the projects you need to get checked off the list before the weather turns cold and it cut off due to winter conditions. With our trained personnel and the available equipment to handle the job, we are ready to go any day of the week.
For the project photo above based on the details and objectives we normally get petitioned with, our work must be understood and coordinated with multiple trades throughout the duration of it. Here is a breakdown of this recently completed project’s underlying tasks and end results.
Our client said “we want to turn our other location into a warehouse, so we will need to get all the equipment out of there, and fill in the void that is left in the concrete. They expressed concerns and questions such as, is this something your company can do? Some of this equipment has been sold to another company. Are you able to crate it and get it ready for shipping?”
This project was right in our wheelhouse as we had crews available that could do all these tasks. We commenced with work formulating a plan & schedule as we needed to identify the equipment that has been sold so that we can prepare it for shipment, and send the other items to scrap as directed.
Our certified riggers went to work dismantling the equipment that had been sold, labeled it properly, and staged it for shipment. Other equipment was disassembled and placed in our dumpsters that was taken to a scrap yard. Infilling the areas where machinery had been removed went to one of our concrete crews. The dedicated concrete prepped the areas by creating a solid foundation, placing wire mesh and doweling into the existing adjacent concrete As the photos above show, the top section is equipment that was labeled and ready for shipment, and the lower photo shows the areas ready for concrete. Our project managers worked in tandem with the rigging crews, truck drivers, and the concrete crew to make this project a success. As they say, “teamwork makes the dream work,” which sounds a little cliché, but it truly is what makes these projects happen with the multiple trades on the jobsite that are working together to get things accomplished. The interchangeability and desire to help as needed was pleasing to the customer when seeing a millwright lend a hand to a concrete crew member to cut rebar or wire mesh and the trucking department help crate items for shipments; they knew we had time constraints that were met due to this collaborative effort in getting this done with these challenges.
Not only is time & quality of work key focus areas on this project, but safety is always a focal point with this and all projects for Grand Industrial. When projects arise with multiple trades on the site, our safety director must be certain to point out all the dangers in the area. Open pits where equipment had been removed needed barricades placed around them, sparks from metal cutting had to be contained because of other flammable materials in the area, and rigging equipment inspected daily to ensure that it was in safe working condition. When you are ready for your next project, please give Grand Industrial a call. We are always ready with the trained personnel and equipment to tackle your toughest project.