SMITH-ROWE, LLC

Today we attended the ApprenticeshipNC - Part of the NC Community College System Conference where our Pre-Apprentice, Madison Jones, was presented with the Outstanding Pre-Apprentice Award for the State of North Carolina. We are so proud that one of our own has been selected for this award and cannot wait to see what the future holds for Madison!

Congratulations to Barnhill Contracting Company and its Pinnacle Partners Sanford Contractors, Inc., SMITH-ROWE, LLC, and HDR for its 2023 Pinnacle Award Winning project I-295 Fayetteville Outer Loop: Fayetteville, NC. The CAGC Pinnacle Award continues to be the most prestigious recognition in the Carolinas construction industry honoring the work of general contractors and their projects' key partners. All week we will be featuring the winners on our social media channels. Please join us as we celebrate each project's accomplishments! View all the winners on our website: https://lnkd.in/eA3KmS5V. #CAGCProud #CAGCPinnacleAwardWinner #Construction #CarolinasAGC #CAGCMembers #CAGCFamily #Contruction #cagcconvention As a continuation of the I-295 project that won a Pinnacle award in 2016, this phase of the Fayetteville Outer Loop—from US-401 to Cliffdale Road—included heavy highway construction, paving, and the addition of six new bridges and a replacement bridge. The most expansive of the new bridges was a 2,600-foot twin structure crossing Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, US-401 and wetlands around Bones Creek. Not typically used on highway projects, the girders crossing US-401 were single-spanned across nearly 300 feet and over 10 feet high. Many girders were pre-spliced, but others were spliced together in the air with bolts, utilizing four 430-ton cranes. Setting the girders was completed during weekend road closures of US-401 to utilize the fill material and not damage the existing asphalt. Barnhill's Heavy Highway grading crews moved over 600,000 cubic yards of unclassified excavation and 400,000 cubic yards of borrow utilizing two borrow pits. One was a 17-acre pond, and one was a 25-acre grade-to-drain pit which at the time was undeveloped. Upon job completion, the Barnhill team intentionally graded it as a developable piece of property for the owner. Soon after construction began, Hurricane Florence made landfall, producing record-breaking rainfall in the area. The existing culvert under US-401 was planned to be extended to allow for widening of the road, but with damaging winds and swirling water, the culvert ends had been undermined. The team quickly evaluated the damage and brainstormed a solution to repair the culvert, which led to cored holes in the culvert floor and pumping of concrete slurry into the voids under the floor—actions which saved NCDOT maintenance crews from additional work and possibly having to temporarily shut down US-401. Due to the unforeseen hurricane, the team worked two months straight on Saturdays and Sundays to ensure the project continued on schedule. As a strong supporter and employer of many veterans, Barnhill was very proud to be a part of this project! *Read the full project details on our website*