The leads aren’t fixed to the boom and can travel vertically,
going up and down independently to the angle of the boom,
and this made it much easier to drive the piles while also
taking into account the 10-foot tides. If the tide was high,
we would just travel the leads down; the Berminghammer
system just proved to be great for the job we were doing.”
Coastal Marine believes strongly in encouraging a safe
work environment for its workers. The company maintained
a high level of safety oversight during all stages of the Conley
Terminal project and held constant daily safety meetings,
which helped result in no lost time due to injuries throughout
the project’s lifecycle. In addition to its health and safety
efforts, Coastal Marine also remained focused on sustainability
over the course the project, such as in the use of silt
curtains and debris booms, to help preserve the immediate
environment. To further protect marine wildlife in the area,
the company also enlisted fish observers during blasting and
used a sonar noise system to frighten fish out of the area
where it was working.
“When we were driving the piles, we also used bubble
curtains, which was something new for us,” said Kelley. “The
system pushes compressed air through an underwater curtain
system and puts up a bubble screen – or wall – so the
fish would stay out of the space where we were impacting
the piles.”
The Coastal Marine team is made of experienced industry
professionals with more than a century of combined experience
in the marine construction business and, as such, the
company is able to complete much of its work in-house.
In the case of the Conley Terminal project, Coastal Marine
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building slicing beds and welding all of the approximately
600 pile splices on site.
“The Conley Terminal project represented large undertaking
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disciplined self-performance staff to successfully complete,”
said Kelley. “By having our crews doing all the work, we are
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