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Founded in 1927, Kenny Construction Company maintains a reputation for excellence unmatched in
the construction industry. KENNY is an innovative national contractor and construction manager with extensive experience building large, complex projects and heavy infrastructure through seven main operating groups: Underground, Tunnel, Power, Energy Solutions, Civil, Construction Management
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 Owner: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Value: $147,533,165. This project is located in Chicago along 39th St from the Illinois Central Railroad to the Racine Ave Pumping Station. Work is also being performed within an existing control structure located at Wentworth Ave and 125th St and at 25 drop shaft locations in the Chicago area, many of which require city streets to remain open during the course of the work. The project consists of approximately 14,740 linear feet of 15-foot diameter lined tunnel; a connection to an existing TARP tunnel stub, six lined drop shafts with inside diameters varying from 7 ft-2 in to 15 ft, and depths varying from 227 ft to 250 ft; a vent shaft with 7 ft-2 in inside diameter and six connection structures.
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Live tie-ins will be required at the completion of the project including a tie-in to an existing 20-ft diameter brick sewer so it can be taken offline for rehabilitation in follow-on work. The TBM for this project is a Robbins Main-Beam 17 ft-10 in diameter machine. There are also three backflow gate structures, entrance conduit structures, manholes, and replacement of gates at an existing Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago structure. We will install additional louvers at 25 existing MWRDGC drop shafts. Additional louvers at 25 existing MWRDGC drop shafts will also be installed.
 Owner: City of Chicago; Value: $3.8 Million. This project consisted of the removal and replacement of the Adams Street Bridge over the Kennedy Expressway and an adjacent entrance ramp bridge. The work had to be completed with a minimum of disruption to both the expressway traffic that passed underneath and the surrounding urban community that included high rise condominiums as well as a 100 year old parish church and school. Much of the work had to be undertaken at night and on off hours.
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After the entire superstructure was completely removed, portions of the existing piers and abutments were removed and replaced at a slightly higher elevation. This allowed for added expressway clearance under the new superstructure. A decorative parapet fascia that included flag porticos gave an architectural flair to both bridges. The work was completed on time and on budget.
 This project is part of a $705 million wastewater conveyance system which will include an east tunnel, a central tunnel and a west tunnel. The east segment of the conveyance system consists of 14,050 feet of concrete segmentally-lined tunnel with an inside diameter of 16 feet 8 inches. An Earth Pressure Balance Machine (EPBM) will be used to bore a tunnel approximately 18 feet in diameter to depths of up to 260 feet below the surface. The project lies near the north end of the Seattle Basin which is filled with complex geology composed of sands, silts, fine gravels and silty fine sands, some under high artesian pressure.
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Access to the cutterhead for inspections and tools changes required compressed air interventions up to 3.3 bar pressure. The Project also includes excavation and lining of 80’ diameter slurry wall shaft, excavation and lining of twin 84’ diameter slurry wall shaft, installation of four welded steel pipes ranging in size from 27” to 84” in tunnel, backfill grouting of the steel liners with cellular grout, installation of 2,400 lineal feet of micro-tunnel and construction of ancillary structures. Ground pre-treatment utilizing jet grouting techniques was performed at the shaft and tunnel intersections.
 Owner: American Transmission Company LLC (ATC). The ATC project portfolio included a number of Transmission Lines and Substation Projects built to support a new generating unit at the Wisconsin Public Service Weston Power Plant. Also included were a number of associated projects that supported load growth and low voltage conditions in Central Wisconsin. KENNY was the Program Manager on this portfolio and provided Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, Material Management, Commissioning, Outage Planning, Construction and Project Management services to ATC.
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Major Projects in the Portfolio consisted of the following: approximately 105 Miles of new 345 kV double circuit transmission lines; the rebuild and upgrade of approximately 45 miles of 138 kV transmission lines; three new green-field 345 kV substations; upgrades to 6 additional substations; over 50 brown-field substation up-rate and improvement projects.
 KENNY was awarded a term agreement for Cured-In-Place rehabilitation of the City’s Sewer System. KENNY was selected for all three contracts offered by the City to rehabilitate the system from the North to the Central and to the South over a period of five years. The work consists of installing flexible tubes inverted into the existing sewer and catch basin laterals. The project includes various sizes of pipe ranging from 8” to 48”. Crews lined over 475,000 lineal feet of sewer over the term.
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KENNY constructed a new lining facility in Bedford Park, near Midway Airport to service this major undertaking. The 86,000sf facility serves as the operations center and manufacturing facility impregnating the felt liners with custom resins and distributing them to KENNY crews throughout the City.
In 2010, KENNY added 17,000 sf of facilities in Colorado after its acquisition of Western Slope Utilities.
With the expansion of services throughout the country KENNY recently opened a 31,000 sf facility in Philadelphia.  The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is implementing its Capital Construction Program to bring the CTA’s transit infrastructure into a state of good repair and expand its system capacity. The program consists of projects located throughout the CTA’s transit system. The CTA selected Chicago Transit Partners (CTP) to provide program management for the project. CTP is a joint venture between KENNY and AECOM. The value of the current projects in the Capital Program is approximately $2 billion.
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Several types of construction projects are included in the project: bus passenger facility renewal; bus garage reconstruction and system improvements; rail passenger station renewal and expansion; signage replacement; track and structure renewal, rehabilitation, replacement, and upgrade; train signal replacement and upgrade.KENNY personnel are currently leading the project implementation group, which functions as the oversight managers and coordinators for CTA assigned construction projects.
 The Des Plaines River Floodwall 37 is a flood control project which is expected to prevent the destruction of Mount Prospect and Prospect Heights, Illinois, homes and businesses whenever the river floods during major storms. The project requires installation of approximately 8,200 linear feet of steel sheet piling wall and construction of a concrete I-wall supported on the sheet pile wall. In order to complete the work along the Des Plaines River, approximately 1,000 linear feet of steel sheet pile cofferdam is being constructed. Rip rap is being placed along the shoreline to prevent erosion along the river. In addition to the flood wall, three pump stations with 20,000 gallons per minute pumping capacity will be built. The project is expected to take 3 years.
Client: Imperial Irrigation District (IID); location: Southern California. IID is the third largest electric utility in the state. Building on the success of the Midway to Bannister project IID selected KENNY to provide project management and construction services for the CD/CS 92kV Transmission Line Upgrade Project in the desert communities of La Quinta and Indio near Palm Springs, CA. This project consists of re-conductoring the existing transmission line to improve capacity and reliability to this thriving region. Phase I of the project was completed ahead of schedule on January 21, 2012. Phase II is in progress and scheduled for completion by May 1, 2012.
 Owner: City of Chicago, Department of Aviation; Value: $660 Million. KENNY was selected to oversee a nine-phase project that included demolition of the existing terminal and concourse buildings, and construction of a new 950,000-square-foot terminal and concourse and 260,000 square yards of new aircraft aprons and taxiways. Construction took place while the existing airport was in full operation. The $660-million project, which includes $550 million in construction costs, was completed in 2004. The new Midway International Airport features three times the amount of space and a 100-percent increase in concession services. It serves some 17 million passengers a year with 43 new gates and larger concourses.
 Museum Park Tower IV is a 608,000 square foot 37-story, cast in place, residential condominium tower located in Chicago’s South Loop. Tower IV consists of 286 one and two bedroom luxury condominium units, above and below ground parking, recreation room, exercise room and an outdoor swimming pool surrounded by a landscaped root deck. The project involved rock and belled caissons for the foundation system with a steel sheeting earth retention system required for the elevator pit and stairwells. The concrete cycle attained for this project once construction reached the typical residential floors was three days. The exterior facade consists of floor-to-ceiling glass accentuated by strong vertical columns.  Owner: City of Columbus, OH; Value: $265,553,784. This project is located within the limits of Columbus running under and adjacent to the Scioto River from Neil Ave. and Vine St. to the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project consists of approximately 23,300 linear feet of 20-ft. inside finished diameter; the construction of three shafts, one that will be finished as a Screen Chamber with a Screen Building on top of it, one that will finished as a Pump Station that will be fitted out during Phase 2; and the last shaft that will pick up flow from an existing Relief Sewer via a new Relief Structure and Tangential Inlet Structure that will be built under this Contract.
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Work also includes the construction of a Gate Structure and numerous near surface sewers.Diaphragm walls are required for all shafts to maintain watertight excavations. The diaphragm walls ranged from 50 to 60 ft. in diameter and averaged about 110 ft. in depth. The tunnel will be driven with a Herrenknecht “hybrid” TBM with an excavation diameter of 23-ft. that will erect gasketed precast concrete segments as the machine advances. The project also includes the installation of CSM walls, jet grouting, and pre- and post-excavation grouting utilizing both cement and chemical grouts.
 Owner: Chicago Park District; BUDGET: $610 million. Kenny Construction Company provided general contracting and construction management services as part of a joint venture to rebuild Soldier Field, home to the NFL's Chicago Bears. KENNY oversaw restoration of the stadium's historic colonnades and facade, and replacement of the seating bowl with a 61,500-seat sports and events facility. The 1,441,000-square-foot Soldier Field was scheduled for completion in a record 20 months, even though a typical stadium requires 30 months or more. Averaging more than $30 million a month in construction work, the project came in on budget - and in time for the Bears' nationally televised Monday night home opener on Sept. 29, 2003.
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Turner Construction Co. and Barton Malow Co. served as KENNY's joint-venture partners. The team's ability to employ advanced technology and project management techniques earned it multiple awards, including the Associated General Contractors and Aon Construction Services Group's "Oscar" - the Build America Award.
 Owner: FirstEnergy Corp. Kenny Construction completed a Design-Build contract utilizing an alliance model with the Owner to construct and install approximately 180 miles of 500 kV single circuit Extra High Voltage Transmission Lines from southwestern Pennsylvania through West Virginia to northern Virginia. The project also included the construction of two (2) 500/138 kV substations, one (1) 500 kV greenfield substation capacity addition, and approximately 15 miles of 138 kV transmission line. Kenny Construction was the General Contractor on this project responsible for the design, procurement of right-of-way, permitting, procurement of materials and equipment, and construction.
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This project required extensive permitting and procurement of right-of-way agreements, and was a logistically challenging project as the transmission lines extend through undeveloped areas in the Appalachian Mountains.
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