From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See below for a message from our employee-owners.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
2020 Year in Review
Thank you to all of our employee-owners, clients, colleagues, friends, and family for your kindness and collaboration during these unprecedented times. Here are some positive highlights from this year.
Conference Presentations Going Virtual
Achen-Gardner Construction employee-owners will be participating in several virtual presentations about our projects:
THE LARGEST SEGMENTED STEEL PIPELINE IN ARIZONA GETS AN UPGRADE
Speakers: Tamara Miller, Central Arizona Project / Aric Smith, Achen-Gardner Construction
This presentation will be available on-demand through the AZ Water Conference website and live on Tuesday, August 4 as part of the AZ APWA Free Virtual Summer Series. Click here to view the project page.A TRENCHLESS REHABILITATION MILESTONE - FUSIBLE PVC SLIPLINING IN PEORIA
Speakers: Chris Sterne, City of Peoria / Brian Froelich, Achen-Gardner Construction / Rick Fradenburg, Dibble Engineering
This presentation will be available on-demand through the AZ Water Conference website and live on Tuesday, August 4th as part of the AZ APWA Free Virtual Summer Series. Click here to view the project page.LESSONS LEARNED FROM PIMA COUNTY RWRD’S FIRST PROGRESSIVE DESIGN BUILD
Speakers: David Badger, Pima County RWRD / Geoff Tucker, Achen-Gardner Construction / Stefanie Thrush, EEC
This presentation will be available on-demand through the AZ Water Conference website and live on Thursday, August 20th as part of the AZ APWA Free Virtual Summer Series. Click here to view the project page.
Visit the AZ Water Conference website and the AZ APWA Free Virtual Summer Series website for more information.
National and State APWA Award Winners
Two of Achen-Gardner’s projects have won awards from the American Public Works Association (APWA). Congratulations to the project teams!
Our Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project (CAP) has been awarded the 2020 Public Works Project of the Year award in the category of Environment, $5M But Less Than $25M from APWA (National) and the Arizona Chapter APWA. This project included the most detailed assessment and coating repairs ever performed on a CAP steel siphon. Visit the project page for more project information and photos.
Our Beardsley WRF Solids Pipeline Rehabilitation project for the City of Peoria has been awarded the 2020 Public Works Project of the Year award in the category of Environment, Less Than $5M from the Arizona Chapter APWA. This project involved the installation of the longest section of sliplined fusible PVC pipe ever completed in Arizona. Visit the project page for more project information and photos.
AZ Water Award Winners
Two of Achen-Gardner Construction’s projects have been selected for awards from the AZ Water Association. Congratulations to the project teams!
Our Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project has been selected as the AZ Water Association’s Water System Project of the Year for 2020. This project included the most detailed assessment and coating repairs ever performed on a CAP steel siphon. Visit the project page for more project information and photos.
Our Beardsley WRF Solids Pipeline Rehabilitation project for the City of Peoria has been selected as the AZ Water Association’s 2020 Wastewater System Project of the Year. This project involved the installation of the longest section of sliplined fusible PVC pipe ever completed in Arizona. Visit the project page for more project information and photos.
Achen-Gardner Wins Safety Award
We are proud to have won the Ben Patton Luster Construction Safety Excellence Award from the Arizona Transportation Builders Association (ATB). This award recognizes a companywide commitment to safety and creative solutions to safety challenges. Cesar Martinez (Safety Manager) and Geoff Tucker (Area Manager) accepted the award at the ATB Installation and Awards Dinner on February 1st.
One of our most unique safety challenges in 2019 was our Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project. This work was featured in our award submittal and we are proud of our safety achievements on this and all of our projects.
Salt River Siphon Repair Project Wins Build Arizona Award
Photo Courtesy of the Arizona Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.
Achen-Gardner Construction is honored to have won a Build Arizona Award from the Arizona Chapter Associated General Contractors of America for our Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project (CAP). Members of the project team accepted the award at the Annual Dinner and Build Arizona Awards Banquet on Friday, January 24th.
This project included the dewatering, assessment, and repair of the Salt River Siphon, one of the largest segmented steel pipelines in Arizona. The siphon spans 8,900 LF underneath the Salt River near Granite Reef Dam and is constructed of 21-foot diameter steel pipe that is buried more than 50 feet below the river bottom. Work during this project was conducted 24/7 and provided the most detailed assessment and coating repairs ever performed on a CAP steel siphon. Click here for more project details and photos.
2019 Year in Review
Thank you to all of our employee-owners, clients, colleagues, friends, and family for making our 30th anniversary year spectacular. Here are some of the many highlights from this year.
AZAGC RACERS
Achen-Gardner Construction was a Gold Sponsor and sent an all-women team to the Arizona Chapter Associated General Contractors of America (AZAGC) event at Octane Raceway on September 13, 2019. Thanks to all who participated and cheered on the team.
Our team included drivers Diana Martinez, Abby Goode, Richelle Soto, and Lidia Valladares, crew chief Cailey Jones, and supporter Karen Bilby. They sported racing-style shirts with as many logos as a professional pit crew. The racers took turns driving 14 laps around the track and their times were averaged to provide our team score. The team refueled on refreshments and snacks after the race while spending time with all of our friends and colleagues from AZAGC.
Arizona APWA Conference Wrap Up
Achen-Gardner Construction was a sponsor, exhibitor, and several of our employees attended the Arizona Chapter APWA Statewide Conference on August 7-9th at the El Conquistador Tucson. We were a Premium Sponsor, Public Agency Sponsor, and Friday Prize Drawing Sponsor and handed out fun and useful giveaways at our booth. We also participated in several technical presentations about our recent projects: the Fiesta Tech Sewer Service and Lift Station CMAR (Town of Gilbert) and the Twin Peaks-Blue Bonnet Road Gravity Sewer DB project, and we conducted a demonstration of pressure pipeline rehabilitation using Primus Line, with a discussion about our Primus Line Installation project for the City of Peoria.
Two of our projects also won Project of the Year Awards: the Downtown Chandler Canal Restoration (GMP 4 of our Downtown Chandler Infrastructure Improvements CMAR) (winning in the category of Historical Restoration/Preservation, Less Than $5 Million), and the Val Vista Transmission Main Rehabilitation CMAR project (winning in the category of Environment, $5 Million, But Less Than $25 Million). Congratulations to all of our team members and partners on these projects.
