Rebar and forms for concrete are placed at Station 5. 30 The Next Hundred Years Recycling boom For about a decade, the rigging team hit the road to build recycling facilities for Van Dyk Baler in more than a dozen states. It started in 2001 with a small recyclables sorting facility project in Ithaca, N.Y. The work involved receiving and unloading several sea containers from The Netherlands that contained conveyors, compactors, and sorting machines. These were moved inside the building to be erected and assembled for operation. Pleased with the service, the customer hired the division for baling machinery assembly work in many states across the country—California, Oregon, Nevada, Florida, Maine, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, and Missouri. KBH was considerably smaller at the time, with limited funding. Kyle used his personal credit card to charge hotel, rental car, and other travel expenses to travel to a Portland, Ore., project with Loren Chilson in 2002. Travel did have its perks—Kevin escaped the cold of Western New York when he spent the winter of 2004 building a recyclable sorting facility in Virginia Beach. In 2009, Jef spent nine months in Chicago building what was said to be the most advanced recycling facility in the world. This plant was designed to be a compactor that crushed discarded materials into cubes, which were then sold as a commodity to make recycled products. Baling work had dried up back home, however. Not interested in crisscrossing the country to pursue more projects, the division stepped away from this line of work in 2011. Finding their niche As Kodak work slowed, fossil hydro work began with an RG&E project on the Keuka Canal in Central New York. This involved reclaiming the power canal, which once supplied water to a hydro station, into a wetland area. The 2006 project went so well the division was awarded the Central Avenue Dam Gate 4 replacement project in Rochester in 2009. Several other gate replacement projects were awarded over the next few years. The crews performed concrete work and installed cofer dams, with the occasional help from scuba divers, who assisted with underwater concrete pours. The 2011 Station 5 Powerhouse project, at the Lower Falls of the Genesee River, involved concrete work within the water shafts that fed the turbines. KBH rigging fyer At the Central Avenue Dam, the new gate is lowered into place. KBH Construction Co., Inc Since 1970 Millwright & Rigging Available Services For Prompt Professional Service call Kyle Lee: Mobile: 585-202-7816 Pager: 585-277-8079 Office: 585-889-8500 90 River Road P.O. Box 30 Scottsville, NY 14546 Machine Moving & Relocations (in plant to across the country) Machine Site Preparation Office Relocations Precision Leveling Trucking Steel: Fabrication Erection Removal Structural Repairs Crane Service Demolition: All Types Pictured below is the new recycling equipment located in Portland, Oregon installed by KBH Construction Co., Inc. Conveyor: Installation Removal Re-Fabricating & Repairs Belt Alignments Overhead Crane: Fabrication Installation Removal Relocations Repairs: Structural & Mechanical Skilled Contract Labor Millwrights Riggers Certified welders
