Mowat Construction 2013

 

Mowat Construction was awarded a 30 million dollar contract to install the high rise columns for the 520 project in Seattle. Mowat called on Northwest to provide placing equipment on this very environmental conscience project. Northwest has leased a Putzmeister 2110 along with a 38 meter placing boom to place the seven thousand […]

KGM The Two Billion Dollar Bridge 2013

 

In 2012 KGM was awarded the new 520 bridge project. This two billion dollar floating bridge project is being built in the very environmentally conscience state Washington. KGM called on Northwest to help with equipment which could be leased for the huge “pushes”. Some of these pours are longer than 1000 feet over […]

Bellevue 3 Wall Bracket 2001

 

One of the first concrete core structures ever built was Bellevue III. This new technology required new innovations in placing boom technology. On this job Northwest introduced the Putzmeister detach system. Taking a boom out of the spline and remounting it on an electric pedestal. Soon to follow is what is now series […]

Casino Shreveport, Louisiana 2013

Cajun Concrete Pumping is the contractor for this casino in Shreveport, Louisiana. When the General Contractor suddenly decided to install a placing boom. Harry with Cajun called Northwest and 36 hours later the contractor was lifting the placing boom into place.

Let’s Go Back in Time West Seattle Bridge 1981

In 1981 the interest rate was 25%. There was little work and the work contractors got was low margin. Kiewit was awarded the 90 million dollar West Seattle Bridge Project. The massive project included two travelers bridge. Mike Phelps was the Superintendent on Pier 6 which was the first traveler. Mike called on Northwest to […]

New Naval Hospital Guam 2013

Webcor Construction of California is the Division 3 contractor for the New Naval Hospital in Guam. The 500 million dollar project mandated some heavy placing boom equipment in junction with large trailers. Webcor called on Northwest to not only supply the equipment but, supply enough equipment. Down time would be a huge factor with this […]

New Orleans Oil Spill 2009

 

Within twenty-four hours of the BP oil spill Northwest had equipment bound for barges in New Orleans. Northwest designed and built a special “wand” to placing on the end a 36 meter boom. Water was then pumped through the boom. The pumped water was used for the first two years in the shallow […]

LAS VEGAS UNDERWATER WORLD RECORD 2012

 

Northwest was offered the opportunity to team with Maxon Industries in 2012 on the project known affectionately as the “Big Straw” in Las Vegas. This was an extremely logistically challenging and complex placement.

A raw water intake structure, basically a concrete-and-steel funnel 100 feet (30.5m) tall and weighing 1,200 tons (1,088 metric tons), […]

TNC THE ONE BILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE 2007

 

When it came to build the new Tacoma Narrows bridge in 2005 TNC Contractors called on Northwest Concrete Pumps and Equipment. Northwest designed and supplied the equipment necessary-to preform the task. The job involved placing concrete 4000 feet off shore, vertical drop of 200 feet another 100 feet across a floating ramp to […]

INTEL OREGON 2012

The INTEL project in Oregon occurred in 2011-2012. This was an extremely fast track project requiring intense equipment utilization. Northwest provided , four forty meter Putzmeister placing booms, two Putzmeister 14000 trailer pumps, two ballasted cross-frames, four 16 cell forty meter truck mounted boom pumps, 3000 feet of pipeline, 4 four 61 meter boom […]