LOCATION
Kings Bay, Georgia

CLIENT
U.S. Department of Navy

PARTICIPANTS
Abhe & Svoboda, Inc.

SCOPE OF WORK
Abrasive Blasting
Painting
Lead Abatement & Containments
Stainless Steel Gutter Installation

VALUE
$3.46 million

SCHEDULE
January - September 2000

Explosives Handling Wharf #1 is located at the Naval Submarine Base in Kings Bay, Georgia. The Base is the Atlantic home port for U.S. Trident ballistic missile submarines.

Explosives Handling Wharf #1 is the larger of two facilities at the bas, which are used to berth submarines and perform missile swap-outs. The dimensions of the enormous building are 527 feet long, by 238 feet wide, and 144 feet high.

This project consisted of completely removing the existing coating system on all the interior structural roof support steel, but did not include any of the roof deck coating. Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. abrasive blasted and painted 288,000 square feet of roof support structural steel.

The contract also included replacing the existing building gutter system with 2,100 lineal feet of a new stainless steel gutter/flashing system.

Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. was the prime contractor and overall construction manager on this contract. Due to the overall scope of the work, Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. performed 100% of the on-site work with its own forces. Some structural design work was subcontracted for the containments utilized.