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Volume 6 - Issue 10 - Summer 2009

Kimmins Design Build of Cargo Road

In 2008 Kimmins Contracting, in a design build partnership with PBS&J Engineering, the City of Tampa and the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, began work on Cargo Road, a four lane divided road that connects Ohio Avenue to Hillsborough Avenue as part of the cargo facilities project at Tampa International Airport. The total length of the road is 1.4 miles and includes bike lanes, sidewalks, a 10 ft. pad at the west side of the road and a fully landscaped retention pond with state of the art lighting. Additionally, an 11,000 linear foot water main line, a 2,400 linear foot storm system, a 24,000 linear foot TECO electrical system and a full irrigation system are installed in this project.

The Kimmins team, led by General Superintendent Dennis Kirkpatrick, Dario Munoz, Todd Lantzy, Jerimiah Filjones, and Alejandra Zamora, implemented a new quality control system where the seven crews and eight sub-contractors were continuously inspecting themselves in an successful effort to keep the job on time and in budget. Kimmins began the project with the initial land clearing and grubbing process. The underground utilities were placed followed by the base and asphalt phase. Throughout the summer the landscape and irrigation will be completed and the project is on track for an August 2009 delivery.

Kimmins First Annual Safety Day Awards Luncheon

Kimmins Safety Day is a celebration of our company’s dedication to ensuring that all of our employees return home safely each and every day. We will have the ceremony every year to recognize employees who have demonstrated exemplary safety performance. On Safety Day, the entire company stops operations at 12:00 noon so that all employees can come to the main office to participate.

Anyone associated with Kimmins, including clients, customers and subcontractors are invited to attend and show their support.

This year, over 90 people were recognized for working all of 2008 without a single incident with themselves and their crew members. Award recipients got a certificate, a hardhat sticker, and a tool kit. Four-year safety award recipients also got a Kimmins duffel bag. A raffle was held for all award recipients, and 16 prizes were given out.

We also recognize foreman safety performance with our “Eagle Safety Award”. The award is given to the foreman who has gone the longest period of time without a single incident on their crew.

This year’s award was given to Tony Beavers, who at the close of 2008 had gone for 4 years and 9 months without an incident.

Winner Classroom Additions for Pinellas County School System

To keep up with the ever growing demand for elementary classroom space in Pinellas County, Kimmins was contracted to work with Ajax Building Corp at four area schools: Skyview, Oakhurst, Leila Davis and Ponce De Leon Elementary. With the goal of opening the new facilities before the fall 2009 school year begins, Kimmins began in March 2009 to demolish existing structures and relocate the various gas, storm and sanitary sewers, as well as perform earthwork and paving wherever necessary on the sites. Jerimiah Filjones coordinated the project with the first and foremost goal of keeping the site and the children safe and secure. The new facilities will open in August 2009.

Tampa Museum of Art and Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park

After completing the demolition of the original Tampa Museum of Art early in 2008, Kimmins began work at the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park and further site work on the museum building itself. This included a new entrance from Twiggs Street to the Kiley Park Garage, the installation of a new sanitary sewer system, storm water system and a new water system throughout the park. Additionally, we excavated and regraded the surrounding partials for a new Chillwater Plant and excavated for chill waterlines to run from the plant to the new TMA Building. Constructing the building pad and installing the sanitary, water and storm systems made up the bulk of our work at the museum itself. Other components include the infrastructure work for a New Pavillion in Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park and rebuilding the entrance from Cass Street to Gasparilla Plaza. Garret Schaffer oversaw the project and Jim Weber led as the on-site superintendent coordinating our work forces. At one time we had three crews working on site both at the TMA and the CHWP locations. The project is slated for an early 2010 opening.

Working with Skanska on this project has been a rewarding challenge and a professional pleasure for Kimmins. Chuck Jablon, Skanska’s Operations Vice President has been a driving force in keeping the project on track, organized, and safe.

“Kimmins has been very instrumental to the overall success and productivity of the TMA project, the CHWP project, the S-2 Seawall project and the TMA Chiller Plant Project. What is most significant to the overall project is that the Kimmins team continues to be a team player working well with the other 30 subcontractor trades on site. Recently the Kimmins team provided all the excavations, backfilling and compaction for the installation of the main electrical feeders and chilled water piping from the chiller plant to the TMA building. Your team completed this very complicated event without any incidents while maintaining traffic flows in and out of the project. I can attest that APG electric and Tappouni mechanical were very relieved that they did not have to perform the digging, grading, backfill and compaction of this operation. The Skanska team is very happy to have Kimmins on our downtown team.” –Chuck Jablon, Operations Vice President, Skanska

Employee Spotlight:

Buz Molennor - 25 years with Kimmins Contracting Corp

In 1982 Buzz worked on a project in conjunction with Kimmins at EPCOT Center. Shortly after he joined the company full time and has NEVER missed a day of work in nearly three decades. Buz truly embodies a work and moral ethic that is held in the highest degree and with the utmost respect throughout our organization. He is a role model and leader in every sense of those words, and has been a part of nearly every milestone job in Kimmins Florida history. Most memorably he cites the project at Ft. DeSoto Park nearly 18 years ago where they laid over 43,000 ft. of pipe, as well as the Tampa Convention Center’s 48” sewer T-lock and 54” force main pipe that connected the Krauss St. Pump Station to Harbour Island during its initial commercial and residential development.

Buz is a proud husband and father to two daughters and a son and has two grandchildren. His son is a base foreman with Kimmins and is currently working on the Tampa Museum of Art site.

“It is the employees that makes Kimmins the company that it is. It is the talent here that makes my work and what makes us great,” he says with conviction and pride. “I hope that my son will have as great of a living here at Kimmins as I have”.