United Village Sculpture Plaza

Project Details

Client: Mortenson
Location: St. Paul, MN
Services:  Excavation, Deep Foundations, Site Utilities

Overview

In the spring of 2024, Mortenson Construction awarded the United Village Sculpture Garden project to Bolander. Located just north of the Minnesota United Allianz Stadium, the garden is home to the new nearly 33-foot-tall Loon sculpture, which weighs approximately 25 tons.

Bolander was contracted to perform site mass excavation, install three drilled pier foundations for the Loon sculpture, construct storm sewer systems, install an irrigation day tank and system, and prepare the subgrade for decorative concrete pavement and landscaping. The project was on a tight schedule, requiring us to work many long summer days to complete our tasks before the arrival of the Loon structure.

Project Highlights:

  • Installation of three 36” diameter x 36’ deep drilled pier foundations
  • Installation of 840 linear feet of storm sewer
  • Installation of irrigation day tank and system

Bolander successfully completed all scheduled milestones, ensuring the site was ready for the arrival of the Loon structure.

The Heights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Details


Client: St. Paul Port Authority
Location: St. Paul, MN
Services:  Demolition, Earthwork

Bolander began work in August of 2023 on one of Saint Paul’s largest site developments on the east side of the city. Located on the previous Hillcrest Golf Course, this civil development spans across the 112-acre site. Bolander’s scope of work at the site included the demolition of the existing golf course structures, site removals, soil remediation, soil corrections, and mass grading. This project is still ongoing, but crews are slated to be completed with our work during the 2024 construction season.

Project Highlights:

  • Excavation and Export of over 105,000 Tons of Mercury contaminated soil from the site
  • Excavation and Export of over 330,000 CYLV from the site to achieve site grades
  • Design-Build RSS Walls proposed by Bolander will be starting this summer. Integration of the RSS Walls saved money as well as reduced lead time of the originally designed concrete walls.

 

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Project Osprey

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Project Details

Client: Ryan Companies
Location: Rosemount, MN
Services: Earth Retention, Excavation, Site Utilities

Overview

In the summer of 2021, Ryan Companies awarded this project to Bolander. Located in Rosemount MN, Project Osprey will be a substantial rail-accessible distribution facility for Home Depot. The site encompasses 67 Acres total with a 400,000 square foot building, a massive outdoor concrete paved storage yard, roads/parking areas and 5,000 LF of railroad track.

After comprehensive review of the geotechnical report, the Bolander estimating team offered an innovative approach to utilizing existing soils to meet project criteria, eliminate the need to export unsuitable soils/import suitable soils thus balancing the site. This cost-saving approach won Bolander this major project.

Highlights:

·Over 500,000 CYs of grading

·Over 20,000 LF of Storm Sewer, Sanitary Sewer & Watermain

·Nearly 100,000 TNs of CL5 Aggregate Base

In fall of 2021, much to the delight of our customer, Bolander completed the building pad grading ahead of schedule. Beating this milestone was a significant testament to the ability of the men and women who worked on this project. Spring 2022 we resumed work installing storm sewer, subgrade preparation, railroad grading, aggregate base installation as well as the construction of a 2,000 LF noise wall.

Abbott Northwestern Central Utility Plant

Project Details

Client: JE Dunn
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Services: Building Demolition, Earth Retention, Excavation, Site Utilities

Overview

In the spring of 2021, JE Dunn awarded Bolander the site work construction for the Abbott Northwestern Central Utility project. Once awarded, we worked closely with the client on the high-level planning required to execute this complicated project. Bolander’s work consists of Building Demolition, Earth Retention, Excavation & Site Utilities.

Located on the corner of Chicago Avenue and East 26th Street, the new Central Utility Plant will replace the hospital’s outdated energy and steam-producing equipment with more reliable and energy-efficient technology. The hospital currently relies on steam and energy equipment dating back to 1956.

The project started with the demolition of the existing Harriet Walker and the Education buildings. Standing 6-Stories tall, the Harriet Walker building was a perfect opportunity to utilize the Liebherr R960 High-Reach Demolition Excavator. This machine has multiple configurations and the ability to reach 108’!

The Earth Retention portion of our work includes drill & set H-Pile and lagging, tie-backs, internal bracing, as well as soil solidification. Given the proximity to existing structures that are to remain intact as well as active medical facilities, vibration was a significant concern. Bolander worked with our engineering consultant to develop a plan to alleviate these concerns.

This project shows our ability to coordinate and collaborate with the general contractor as well as the other project partners and stakeholders.

Essentia Hospital – Vision Northland

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Project Details

Client: McGough Construction
Location: Duluth, MN
Services: Building Demolition, Earth Retention, Excavation, Site Utilities

Overview

Essentia has been an exciting project with its success rooted in our partnership with Northland Constructors of Duluth. Starting in 2019, Northland took the lead on excavation and utilities while Bolander began demolition, deep foundations and earth retention.

The demolition has been unique to both the client and the structure involved.

“Essentia is an active hospital,” explained Evan Mackey, Demolition Division Manager, “Bolander worked closely with the general contractor and Essentia to implement means and methods that reduced noise, dust and vibration to mitigate impact to sensitive medical equipment, patients and pedestrian traffic.” Additionally, Bolander crews worked on demolition of a post-tension parking ramp. This included de-tensioned and re-tensioned structural cables.  Demolition crews also dismantled two existing skyways.

Foundation crews had to account for topographical challenges, as the site drop 110’ towards the shore of Lake Superior. Their work included five separate earth retention systems retaining as much as 62 vertical feet of rock and soil.  To maintain the aggressive schedule, our crews showed true commitment working long hours and even drilling through Thanksgiving weekend. Furthermore, Bolander drilled 100 foundation rock anchors and is scheduled to install 32 drilled piers.

Essentia has been an exciting project where Bolander, with our talented leadership and crews, overcame several obstacles to complete our scope of work safely and on time.  This project has sparked a great relationship with Northland Constructors which will lead to more opportunities for us in the Duluth market.

Heart of the City

Project Details

Client: Kraus Anderson
Location: Rochester, MN
Services: Building Demolition, Earth Retention, Excavation, Site Utilities

Overview

Heart of the City, true to its name, is nestled between the Mayo Clinic, and Rochester’s flagship hotels, and restaurants.  Given the sensitive nature of this project the city of Rochester and Destination Medical Center entrusted Bolander with a Best Value contract to deliver their vision while limiting the impact on Mayo Clinic patient traffic and patrons of surrounding businesses.

In pursuit of this challenging work, Bolander proposed a plan that would maintain water and sanitary services to businesses throughout the duration of the project.  This plan maximized passive flow bypasses, quiet electrical pumps and buried temporary water services to separate the business operations from our below grade reconstruct of the city’s utility infrastructure.  Always pushing to innovate, Bolander utilized a Rock Trenching machine to trench 600-ft of soil and rock in depths in excess of 19-ft.

The project has also become the heart of our company’s Rochester operations.  Currently the project is home to our new Rochester utility crew led by Shawn Erlanson and employs three quarters of our total Rochester workforce.  Thanks to our hard-working crews putting in long hours we are expecting to substantially complete this project one month ahead of schedule.