Floating Cow Patties Are a Thing of the Past for W&N Development

The Challenge

The Vander Linden brothers just have to glance up the street to see how the pour is going. Are the concrete trucks stacking up? Are the concrete trucks rotating in-and-out every 10 minutes? 

Peninsula College’s campus is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the jaw-droppingly beautiful city of Port Angeles, Washington. This area is such a gem that any new construction has to be done right yet also fit with the beautiful surroundings.

At the Graton Casino in Rohnert Park, California, the one thing they didn’t want to gamble on with their new expansion was a moisture problem. For Urata & Sons Concrete, Inc, this meant finding a whole new way to support and brace interior forming while maintaining the integrity of the vapor barrier below the concrete. Not doing so could cause excess moisture in the new 200-room hotel, due to open later this year, which could be bad for the overall health of the project. This required new thinking.