Barriere Construction Wins with Two Projects
Barriere Construction’s South Shore Asphalt division recently earned ABC National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award in the Infrastructure-Heavy category for their Interstate 10 Repaving Project, in New Orleans East. The project also won the NAPA Quality in Construction Asphalt Award and the local ABC Bayou Excellence in Construction Merit Gold Award. The Interstate 10 repaving project was led by Huey Whitman, project manager.
Barriere Construction South Shore Construction division also won numerous construction awards for their work on the Reconstruction of Tidewater Road project in Venice, Louisiana. The Tidewater project won the South Central Magazine, Best of 2009, Award of Excellence-Transportation and ABC Pelican's Excellence in Construction Excellence Award. The project was also awarded the Greater New Orleans Business Roundtable Construction Award and ABC Bayou's Excellence in Construction Merit Silver Award. Ricky Dantin, project manager, led the award-winning project.
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STEP AWARD
Once again, Barriere Construction Co. received an ABC Platinum STEP Award,
this time from ABC’s Pelican Chapter.
Barriere has been awarded their eighth consecutive Platinum Level - Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) Award from ABC Bayou since 2001. The Platinum STEP award is the highest-level safety award given by ABC (Associated Builders and Contractors).
The Safety Training Evaluation Process (STEP) is a benchmarking tool that helps ABC members improve their safety and training programs. The STEP program provides the resources needed to measure a company’s safety program’s progress each year and determine how it compares to the practices of other ABC members.
Barriere Construction Wins Big
Barriere Construction’s South Shore Asphalt division recently earned ABC’s 2008 Excellence in Construction Gold Award in the Infrastructure-Heavy category for their Highway 23 Repaving Project, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
This project also captured a 2008 Award of Excellence from McGraw Hill/South Central Construction Magazine, the Greater New Orleans Business Roundtable 2008 Construction Award, and the 2009 Louisiana Transportation Engineering Conference
Transportation Excellence Awards. The Highway 23 project was led by project manager and estimator, Jim Breland.
Twenty-seven years after paving Highway 23, Barriere Construction returned to this Plaquemines Parish roadway. In 1981, Barriere earned NAPA’s top road-building honor, the prestigious Sheldon G. Hayes Award. This year’s resurfacing bid called for 30,000 tons of asphalt, milling 1.5” off the existing roadway, resurfacing the travel lanes with a 2” binder course, and resurfacing the entire roadway and shoulders with an 1.5” asphalt wearing course. Known as inlaying, Barriere milled the asphalt roadway and paved the first lift of asphalt simultaneously, cutting the project to less than two-thirds of the allotted time, while minimizing loose rocks and drop-offs on the roadway. Using the inlaying process, resulted in a safer road and less interruptions. Over 9,400 vehicles pass over the state highway each day, with 13% of that traffic from coming from large trucks. To ensure continued traffic flow, one full-size lane was kept open at all times in each direction during workdays.
Barriere Construction exceeded the standards with an international roughness index (IRI) of less than 65 and a compaction rate of 94% by using an innovative, four-roller method. A quality control specialist was in the field every day of the project, using a light-weight profilometer to check the smoothness and compaction rates of the roadway.
This year’s repaving project does not qualify for the Hayes Award, because the award calls for 50,000 tons of asphalt and this project only used 30,000.
Barriere Construction "Builds It Right"
Hot Mix Asphalt Technology spotlighted Barriere Construction's South Shore Asphalt Division’s return to Highway 23 in Belle Chasse, Louisiana in their July/August 2008 issue. Barriere Construction originally built Highway 23 in 1981 using full-depth asphalt and in 2008 won the contract to do the first resurfacing of the highway since then. “It’s amazing to think that this road has held up so well for so long,” said Jimmy Fulton, paving superintendent for Barriere Construction.
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Barriere Construction offers Habitat helping hands
NEW ORLEANS - The sound of pounding hammers breaks the morning calm in the Upper Ninth Ward. At the corner of Mazant and North Rocheblave streets, a new home is rising in the middle of the ruins left by Hurricane Katrina.
While much of the Upper Ninth Ward consists of block after block of destroyed and vacant housing, Barriere Construction Co. is helping bring the area back to life by building a home at 2344 Mazant St.
Last Saturday, roughly 25 Barriere employees braved chilly temperatures to help Habitat for Humanity build the four-bedroom home, which eventually will house New Orleans resident Lionel Thomas and his five children.
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