Fred 310 Infrastructure - Final Acceptance

"I'm happy to announce that on 3/18/25 we received 'Final Acceptance' for the Fred 310 Infrastructure Project, not to be confused with Fred 310 B, Fred 310 G, Fred 310 D, Fred 310 E, or any of their corresponding concrete jobs.
None of this would have been possible without Dan Reed, who was my only on-site counterpart that was involved during the entire project. He was instrumental in coordinating the incredible amount of earth moving activities, the erosion control challenges of a 300 acre site, the logistical nightmare of night work, remembering to install future utility connections everywhere, setting up a concrete batch plant, relocating an active 48" sewer main, and somehow getting our gator up hills that it had no business attempting. He did all of this while also dealing with our powder-keg of a civil inspector, fielding calls from the dozens of neighbors, attending 3 years of Boeing meetings where not one decision was ever made, coordinating site access through a fellow GC's jobsite, becoming best friends with our PSE project managers, and herding four different HOS Superintendents.
We also couldn't have done it without Bryan Ploetz coordinating the constantly changing design concepts in the beginning, Jason Nix getting thrown in to the deep end midway through the project and still keeping us afloat, Lisa Diebler coordinating 7 simultaneous projects, Dylan Logan cleaning up the myriad punchlists at the end of the job, and special appearance by Blake Vandenberg as the summer intern on your standard Sierra Construction project.
I inexplicably started the job on paternity leave and ended the job on paternity leave, but it all started 3 years ago with 310 acres of trees and a dream, and we ended with:

• A re-built wetland that was destroyed by Boeing decades ago.
• One of Pierce County's first ever 48" 'Spirolite' Sewer Mains
• A 30' tall, 7k SF, Design-Build Soldier Pile Retaining Wall
• A Design-Build micro pile Wall around an existing power pole.
• A new railroad bridge that was completed in a 7 day window on an active rail line.
• 7,800 LF of new county road, complete with its own infiltration gallery, sewer main, water main, JUT, street lighting, sidewalks, and landscaping.
• A relocated 15k SF of Boeing's 10" thick concrete road
• A new Boeing Driveway
• A widened highway off ramp 3 miles from the jobsite, constructed completely at night.

It was a wild ride and I know I'll never see anything quite like it again."

- Sam Evans, Project Manager