Blog: Safety Complex Updates

Week 59: Grading the Public Safety Complex Grounds

This week, tons of pulverized debris are being graded into place on the grounds of the City's Public Safety Complex - a process that is both economical and environmentally sound.

With the grading, the vacated St. Mary's Hospital site is more and more looking like the eventual campus that will house Police, Fire administration, City Court, Pension System and backup E-911 operations.

Here's what the scene currently looks like:

Backfill between the 1929 Building and the Public Safety Complex

Backfill between the 1929 Building and the Public Safety Complex

Grading work is leveling out what soon will be green space and parking next to the Public Safety Complex

The material that you see being spread by Blount Excavating Inc. bulldozers is durable construction debris, or DCD - crushed masonry and concrete from the demolished obsolete hospital wings.

Contractor crews removed metals from the debris so that the remaining aggregate could be recycled as backfill.

The strategy negated the need to remove the debris and dump it in a landfill elsewhere. It also reduced the need to bring in as much soil from offsite.

The backfill will help even out the lay of the land, filling holes where basements, foundations and massive concrete piles had once existed and interrupted the sloping landscape.

At some point, tons of soil - enough to form a layer at least 4 feet deep, covering the top of the backfill - will be brought in, laid down and eventually planted with grass and trees.

Meanwhile, Al Blankenship Enterprises crews last week began forming the final section of foundation wall, and that wall will be poured this week.

Foundation walls have been built at the end of what was formerly known as the Central Wing Annex, returning to the former Women's Pavilion. Other walls run the length of the Central Wing Annex and run near where a City Court building will be constructed.

Preparation work is underway before the last section of new foundation wall is poured next to the Central Wing Annex

Preparation work is underway before the last section of new foundation wall is poured next to the Central Wing Annex

Posted by evreeland On 07 April, 2021 at 12:23 PM