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Originally Posted by Superman
Civil engineering is, apparently, not glamorous among engineers. But I happen to think it is very cool. I am dealing with a project right now which involved excavation of around 2 million tons of material. Previously I had dealt with a project involving import of 16 million cubic yards of fill. That is 850,000 truck loads. Our SR-520 bridge project involved 77 floating concrete pontoons measuring 360 feet long, 75 feet wide and 30 feet tall. Each.
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I’ve never been on a dirt job that big. Biggest was a 100,000 yard export job. Material was residential clean, sugar sand. People were fighting for it.
One of the projects that took most of it was desperate to get as much as possible. At peak, we had a Cat 375, PC400 and WA500 loading their trucks. We were running in excess of 200 loads per day until the neighbors shut us down.