Tobyhanna Army Depot | Electronics Maintenance Shop
Electronics Maintenance Shop
Tobyhanna, PA
Owner
Tobyhanna Army Depot
Design Professional
Ewing Cole
Philadelphia, PA
PROJECT
The team from L.R. Costanzo Co., Inc. installed the infrastructure and erected a structural platform for a radar antenna positioner. The team also completely renovated an existing storage warehouse to accommodate an Electronics Maintenance Shop for Tobyhanna Army Depot, the largest, full-service electronics maintenance facility in the United States Department of Defense.
CHALLENGES
- Executing site-work and installing structural systems during extreme winter weather conditions.
- Working in an area deemed “high hazard” due to the potential of “unexploded ordinances” being present in this former artillery test range.
- Procuring owner-specified equipment to satisfy end-user needs.
- Hazardous abatement work occurring simultaneously inside the warehouse.
SOLUTIONS
- Used ground thaw heaters, installed tents and employed winter construction techniques.
- Hired a metal detection/mine sweeping company to carefully screen layer upon layer of earth throughout the project’s excavations. All work and material handling was done strictly within clearly-defined clearance limits.
- Provided various options through a series of meetings and on-going communications with end users and owners’ representatives.
- Re-sequenced work tasks to accommodate abatement schedule.
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
- Installed electro-static discharge, epoxy-based flooring system on warehouse floor
- Erected three ton gib crane on antenna positioner platform
- Furnished and installed pre-cast building at antenna positioner site
- Dug 400’ infiltration trench around antenna positioner site