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Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam
From its founding in 1914,
Kaiser established itself as a road building
company, but as money dried up for road building at
the beginning of the Depression, Henry Kaiser
looked to dam building, which was one of the main
types of large Depression-era public works
projects. Kaiser led the six-company consortium
that built what was then the largest dam in the
world, the Hoover Dam. The Company was involved in
many of the dam construction projects that helped
modernize the American West by providing power and
irrigation, including the Bonneville Dam and Grand
Coulee Dam. Grand Coulee, which followed the Hoover
Dam, replaced the Great Pyramids as the world's
largest manmade structure when it was completed.
Henry Kaiser established his reputation as a team
builder with these projects by working with the
other companies that joined Kaiser in joint
ventures, as well as with the unions, to expand the
limits of what builders could accomplish.
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Kaiser Liberty Ships
During World War II, Kaiser
became one of the most famous industrial companies
in the United States for its contributions to the
war efforts. Kaiser built huge numbers of ships in
record times, including "baby flat top" aircraft
carriers. Kaiser had the equivalent of 20 military
divisions, 300,000 workers, engaged in
manufacturing munitions, planes, and ships.
Kaiser's shipyards in Oregon and California
competed to out-produce each other, and the
shipyard in Richmond, California launched the SS
Robert E. Peary after only four days, 15 hours, and
26 minutes after laying the first strip of steel
that became the keel. By the end of WWII, Kaiser's
shipyards had built 1,383 merchant ships and 107
warships.
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Production Plants for the Kaiser Industries
Companies in the 1940's and early 1950s
Kaiser built a number of plants
for the basic industrial companies it owned,
including facilities for Kaiser Aluminum
(Chalmette, LA); Kaiser Cement (Permanente, CA);
and Kaiser Steel (Fontana, CA). For the Fontana
mill, Kaiser built the infrastructure needed to
mine and transport iron ore from the Eagle Mountain
iron ore mine to Fontana, including a 52-mile
railroad line to connect the remote Eagle Mountain
location to the existing rail line.
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Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power
Project
In the 1950s, Kaiser led the
six-company consortium that built the Snowy
Mountains project, which provided irrigation and
electricity to southeastern Australia. The 25-year,
on-time and under-budget project included the
construction of 16 dams, seven hydroelectric
stations, over 85 miles of tunnels, 50 miles of
aqueducts, which included a 14-mile canal cut
through the granite heart of the Snowy
Mountains.
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Pulverized Coal Injection Facility
In early 1991, Kaiser signed a
tolling agreement with U.S. Steel to design,
construct, own, operate, and maintain a $100
million pulverized coal injection (PCI) facility.
To make the project possible, Kaiser successfully
arranged financing for design and construction of
the facility, consisting of approximately 80%
long-term debt financing and 20% equity financing.
Located at U.S. Steel's Gary Works in Indiana, the
PCI facility is the largest of its type in the
world - it injects coal into four blast furnaces at
a rate of approximately 3,000 tons per day, seven
days a week, every day of the year. The facility
operated at over 100 percent calculated reliability
for the first two years. Kaiser owned, operated,
and maintained the facility for four years, during
which time Kaiser had exclusive license to market
and apply the technology at selected facilities in
the United States. PCI systems are a promising
technological alternative for steelmakers, reducing
the need for coke, cutting steel production costs,
and easily meeting the strict environmental
standards faced by traditional coke-making
facilities.
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North West Shelf Oil and Natural Gas
Complex
A joint venture between Kaiser,
M.W. Kellogg, and Japan Gas (JKJ) provided
engineering, procurement, and construction
management services on-time and under budget for
the North West Shelf Gas Project, the largest
single project ever undertaken in Australia. The
oil and gas complex has the capacity to produce
11.3 million cubic meters of domestic gas per day,
7.2 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas
(LNG) per year, 1.4 million metric tons of light
crude oil, and 600,000 metric tons of liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG). Located in the Withnell Bay
area of northwestern Australia, the complex
consists of two production platforms - one 214
meters high and the other 291 meters high -that are
located 84 miles offshore and release gas trapped 2
miles beneath the ocean floor; 135 km of 1,016-mm
(40-inch) pipeline; gas treatment facilities in
Withnell Bay; storage facilities; and supporting
infrastructure.
In 1998, Kaiser was awarded a
contract for the initial design phase of Woodside
Offshore Petroleum Pty Ltd.'s $400 million liquids
expansion project as part of a joint venture with
Kellogg Overseas Corporation, JGC, and Clough
Engineering Ltd. When completed, the project will
increase condensate and LPG capacity at the North
West Shelf.
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation
For more than 14 years, Kaiser
was responsible for facilities management, design
and construction upgrades, and construction
management for all nuclear and non-nuclear
facilities and infrastructure on the
570-square-mile Hanford nuclear site. Under four
successive contracts worth $1.3 billion, Kaiser
consistently achieved more than 90% award fee,
reduced infrastructure and landlord costs by $52
million, achieved $120 million in savings on 30
projects over a two-year period through value
engineering initiatives, and reduced utilities
costs more than 50%, a $10 million savings. At the
contract's peak, Kaiser managed 800 professionals
and 1,200 craft labor on 1,600 assignments.
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I-595 Port Everglades Expressway
Kaiser provided design and
construction management services and right-of-way
acquisition on this $1.2 billion project that was
completed ahead of schedule and $80 million under
budget. The project included 20 separate
construction packages, 310 lanes miles of highway,
93 bridges, three four-level interchanges, 14 two-
or three-level interchanges, relocation of three
railroads, and two water crossings. The project
also required a six-year maintenance-of-traffic
plan to keep 150,000 vehicles per day flowing on
I-95 at the I-595 intersection.
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Boston Harbor
Kaiser is the program and
construction manager for the $3.5 billion, 14-year
cleanup of the Boston Harbor. The Boston Harbor
Project is the largest capital improvement project
in New England and the second largest wastewater
treatment plant in the country. The main feature of
the project is the construction of a 1.1 billion
gallons per day wastewater treatment facility and a
nine-mile ocean outfall tunnel. When complete in
2002, the facility will provide secondary
wastewater treatment for 2.5 million people in 43
cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts. At the
project's peak, Kaiser managed the activities of 90
prime contractors and more than 3,200 personnel. To
date, Kaiser has saved $600 million in project
costs and accelerated the court-mandated schedule
by two years. More than 28 million hours have been
worked with a lost-time accident rate of 4.0, which
is 35 percent below the national average for heavy
construction.
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Rocky Flats
Valued at $3.5 billion over a
five-year period, Kaiser Engineers' is a 50-50
joint venture partner with CH2M Hill to manage the
cleanup of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Rocky
Flats site in Colorado. The site is comprised of
384 acres of nuclear and industrial complex
facilities, consisting of 650,000 square feet of
warehouse and office space, 130,000 square feet of
laboratories, 1,400,000 square feet of industrial
facilities, and 1,100,000 square feet of nuclear
production facilities. Under the contract, which
represents a benchmark for performance-based
contracting, 80% of the company's fee is based upon
meeting specific performance measures. To date,
more than 90% of activity milestones have been met
while keeping the project on schedule and within
budget requirements. Since contract award, more
than 50 years and nearly $30 billion have been
shaved off DOE's original clean up schedule.
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Nova Hut
Kaiser is leading the
engineering and construction efforts to build a
$262-million steel mill in Ostrava, the Czech
Republic. The project began in 1993, when Kaiser
produced a feasibility study financed by the U.S.
Trade and Development Agency. The new mill will
help modernize the Czech Republic's metals industry
and make the country more competitive in the
modern, global marketplace. The mini-mill consists
of a ladle metallurgy facility, medium slab caster
(with twin slab capability), equalizing/reheat
furnace, and a two-stand reversing hot strip mill.
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Manila Light Rail
Kaiser is providing program
management, technical oversight, construction
supervision, and contract management services on
the $655 million light-rail transit line along the
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) corridor in
downtown Manila, the Philippines. The EDSA line
will help alleviate traffic on one of the world's
busiest traffic corridors and reduce air pollution
in one of the world's most populous cities. The
Phase I portion of the MRT 3 system includes the
construction of 13 stations on 16.8 kilometers of
track along EDSA. MRT 3 follows the path of EDSA,
which is a semi-circular ring road crossed by
several radial roads leading to Manila's city
center. The 16.8-kilometer system will be located
in the median of EDSA and will be elevated for
approximately 8 kilometers, at grade for
approximately 7 kilometers, and underground for 2
kilometers. The project is being implemented
through a unique, 25-year, build-lease-transfer
(BLT) agreement ( signed August 1997, with
Philippines' Department of Transportation and
Communication (DOTC) ( by which a private
Filipino-led consortium will finance and build the
system, maintain it for 25 years, and lease it to
the Filipino government who will operate it during
that 25-year period.
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