Precast Solutions - January/February 2008 - (Page 13) Box culverts, normally used for storm water conveyance, provided a great alternative to cast-in-place tunnels and saved the owner about 60 percent in costs. would have “originally been made from poured-in-place,” says Brown. “We reviewed their requirements, created a precast design, manufactured them here in our plant and shipped them over,” he says. “They were in place within a day, versus the several weeks – and higher costs – that the poured-in-place would have taken.” The end result was a happy customer who has since rethought the use of poured-in-place concrete in several areas of the project. “We took a tremendous amount of poured-in-place work and used our internal design and engineering resources to provide more precast products to the site,” says Brown. As CityCenter’s construction progresses, it’s likely that even more precast concrete will be used to create the dozens of underground and above-ground structures that will make up the gigantic mixed-use project. Expected to be one of the world’s largest environmentally sustainable urban communities, the project kicked off in July 2006 and its first phase is expected to be introduced to the world in November 2009. Bridget McCrea is a freelance writer who covers manufacturing, industry and technology. She is the winner of the 2007 Florida Magazine Association's Gold Award for best trade/technical feature statewide. JAN/FEB 2008 | PRECAST SOLUTIONS 13
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