![]() ![]() Smith says Clark/Weitz/Clarkson placed its grade beam and anchored and braced the panels so they could stand by themselves until the rest of the head house, the steel Y-columns and the box beams from fabricator ADF International could be delivered. This is the only area where we had to leave out slab-on-grade work until after we erected the steel.”īefore the box beams could be installed, the Clark/Weitz/Clarkson design-build joint venture contractor delivering the project had to erect one precast concrete wall of the head house, much like first building a load-bearing interior wall before what goes around it in a Lego house. “It’s a significant architectural element and a lot of time was spent studying the structure and how to design it, but then how to build it. ![]() “You’ve got three points of contact, one in the back of the head house and the two points of a Y-column with a significant cantilever to cover the curbside drop-off,” says Mark Goodwin, vice president with Clark Construction Group and operations leader for the KCI Airport single terminal project. Below the 800-ft-long head house, an elevated roadway that needed its own concrete reinforcement columns complicated installation of the box beams and the steel Y-columns that hold them up. ![]()
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