Project description

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Hanson a worldwide indefinite delivery contract for the following services:

• preparing plans, specifications and design analyses for the construction and rehabilitation of railroads, roadway pavements and specialized railroad support facilities;
• inspecting railroad track and developing maintenance recommendations;
• cost estimating using M-CACES;
• field and laboratory testing of railroad and pavement subgrades; and
• specialized consulting services and engineering studies related to the planning, design, construction and evaluation of railroads and vehicular pavements.

McAlester Ammunition Plant
(USACE, Tulsa District)

Hanson has completed work on the McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma, upgrading the plant to a tier one facility.  In case of global conflict, the plant would be required to ship 400 containers of munitions per day, 90 percent by rail.  Our role in upgrading the facility consisted of designing the container and rail handling facilities to support an increase in container loading capabilities in the following four areas:

• container receiving/repair yard:  a 120-by-1,700 foot concrete slab for loading/unloading containers, empty container storage yard and operations support building;
• loading dock:  two new tracks and 100-by-350 foot concrete slab for transferring containers from trucks to rail cars;
• battery charging building:  to charge the batteries of fork lift trucks used to load munitions into containers; and
• staging yard:  a seven-track rail yard to be used to store empty rail cars and interchange traffic with the Union Pacific Railroad.