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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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A rendering shows the new steel panel line and blast and coat building on Austal's campus. Both new buildings are shaded blue
Austal help create the initial RFP. After a few months
of design and pricing, Austal decided to go with
Mobile, Alabama Gray to build their facility. They knew we had the
capability to fully design and build their facility in
Gray has been a longtime partner with ship the tight timeline that they were up against.”
manufacturer Austal. After being awarded their The Gray team has just ten months to get the
first steel ship contract with the U.S. Navy, Austal facility ready for owner equipment installation, and
selected Gray to help them build a facility on the specs included many trenches, equipment
their Mobile, Alabama campus to manufacture pits and crane rails.
modules for steel ships. Currently, Austal only “The slab consists of 1,200 l.f. of trenches
produces aluminum ships, and Gray’s partnership for electrical and mechanical,” said Daniel. “It
will help them fulfill their steel ship contract. has 4,500 l.f. of embedded steel for equipment
Project Manager Daniel Doucet explains why foundations and 3,700 l.f. of embedded crane
Austal returns to Gray again and again, and why rail and foundations for gantry cranes. The facility
they selected the company for this latest project, has two very large bridge cranes spanning the full
comprising two buildings: a steel panel line width of the building – 225 feet. There are three
building and a blast and coat building. equipment pits that range from 5-10 feet deep.
“This comes down to relationships,” said Daniel. Our scope also consists of installing a 1,000 l.f.
“Back in 2011 our team made a very memorable demising wall down the center of their existing
impression on this customer, and they didn’t facility and reinforcing two large overhead crane
forget. They didn’t hesitate to come to Gray to bays for heavier cranes.”
