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Highlight for ongoing major projects
Anne Arundel County Schools:
NASTOS has two public
school projects in Anne Arundel County are still in process, with new
roofing in place, plus many internal additions and upgrades of existing
space. We are required to work around the schools busy pupil scheduling
and other programs, but have received rave reviews from teachers,
principals and other administrators.
Classrooms and
Kindergarten Addition
Going Down in History
These children are making their permanent mark in the wet
cement just laid down by Nastos construction at Anne Arundel County's
Elementary School. While usually there is a marked effort on the
part of cement masons to guard new cement from any intrusion or markings
by neighborhood children (or adults), in a highly creative effort on the
part of teachers at the school, current students are actually being
assisted by teaching staff to leave their mark for posterity.
Nastos can mentally picture many of those former students returning to
the site with their own children when they are the same age, to show
them the marks the parents left when they were students at Central
Elementary School way back in 2010.
Fire
Hydrant Project:
A reporter and camera crew from TV
Channel 4 came to one of our job sites on November
2009 to do a story about NASTOS work in replacing many of WASA's
older fire hydrants. WASA is busily replacing or upgrading its fire
hydrants throughout the District of Columbia to regain the necessary
water pressure required to most effectively fight fires in the city. The
hydrants have been in place for many years, and they, plus many of the
water mains leading to them are often heavily encrusted with minerals
that have reduced their flow capacity.
NASTOS is replacing the older hydrants
with new hydrants, and completing a final flow test to assure the city
and the Fire Department that adequate water if flowing from the newly
installed pipes and hydrants.
D.C. National Guard Armory:
NASTOS has completed renovation of the limestone facade of the District
of Columbia's National Guard Armory. That work entailed the removal of
all existing mortar on the building and replacing it with mortar to
match the original mortar with which this historic building was
originally built. It also included repair of cracked or damaged panels,
and inserting metal rods through the panels to hold them onto the
building. The original panels had began to fall from the building as the
old mortar holding them began to disintegrate, so the new metal rods
were put in place to prevent this happening in the future.
The Contracting Officer's representative,
June Chokechaitanasin, has been very helpful throughout the project, as
has the project inspector, Amir Shahna, and the architectural firm,
Architrave, P.C. The Contracting Officer, Curtis Clay, held the entire
team intact and moved the project along in a timely manner with his
excellent management style. The final punch list was checked and cleared
during a walkthrough November 18th, and the only work remaining is the
installation of 12 ladders in several interior roof spaces. Those will
be completed when the present roofing contractor finishes their work
sometime in December.
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