Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
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Well, it's been about a year since Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi.
I was wondering how many, if any, of you have worked on a project related to rebuilding the damage caused by Katrina, and if you would like to share what the projects were.
I was wondering how many, if any, of you have worked on a project related to rebuilding the damage caused by Katrina, and if you would like to share what the projects were.
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RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
It's a huge undertaking and, of course, the biggest hurdles are related to money, not engineering. CH2MHill, Shaw, Flour, and Bechtel are all heavily involved.
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
luis
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
Most of my work was HVAC or HVAC controls related. The drainage canal project dealt with a fuel supply system.
Some of the work is dealing with replacing what got destroyed, some, the more proactive stuff, deals not only with replacing, but redesigning to insure a future catastrophe of this kind will not cause the same rsults.
Nothing overly exciting though. Just more work than in the past. Its too bad the construction industry in this area couldn't have been as busy without such a catastrophe. Its sad to rhink that ni maybe 5 years its likely to be just as stagnant is it was befoe the storm.
Ed
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RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
I have some freinds and colleagues who were involved in building, bridge and levee inspection right after the storm and they had some interesting stories and incredible photos. One good friend was involved with inspecting the Pontchartrain Bridge and getting the one of the two bridges serviceble. Look at the Katrina PDF. Its pretty interesting.
http://www.acec-mi.org/Template1.asp?id=182
It is tragic that the work is necessary in the first place, for numerous reasons, natural & man-made.
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
Here are two sites that have a lot of information on levee failures.
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RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
We built entire utility substations and fixed problems with multiple commercial and industrial clients.
We helped get some of those famous New Orleans floodwater pumping stations back on line.
The technicians lived in temporary lodging set up in rented warehouses.
I managed the office in the CENTER of Hurricane Rita's swath, and we lived in the office on generator power for three weeks following, in the midst of a small town heavily damaged by storm winds.
Our little local office of four technicians expanded to over 30 working in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana for a mad three weeks or so.
We repaired industrial substations damaged by wind and water. Winds blew roofs off and blew doors in, and driven rain soaked the equipment.
This area lost EVERY BIT of utility transmission and distribution network from 500 kV on down. We had industrial facilities in total shutdown after Rita, plants that5 had been continuously running since 1944 in some cases...
Fun stuff, yeah...
old field guy
RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?
Thompson Pump Activates Team to Aid in Hurricane Relief Effort
Sep 12, 2005 10:50 AM
Port Orange, Fla.-based Thompson Pump last week mobilized its emergency response team to provide pumping equipment, supplies and manpower to Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Thompson’s Baton Rouge, La.; Jackson, Miss.; and Pensacola, Fla., branch locations are operational and facilitating the relief effort. Initial concentration is focused on flooding relief in the New Orleans and coastal Mississippi areas, but other operations will include getting hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, water plants, power generation facilities and refineries up and running. Thompson Pump is a 30-year veteran in disaster relief having facilitated cleanup efforts with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the World Trade Center collapse, several flooded areas in the Midwest and hurricane damaged areas in the Southeast.
John Nabors
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RE: Anyone Rebuilding Katrina's Damage?