Client: Westward Seafoods, Inc.
Owner: Westward Seafoods, Inc.
Cost of Work: $75 million

PND was selected to provide surveys, site-civil, dock, building structural and foundation design for this state-of-the-art fish processing complex, which involved extensive meetings and continued close coordination with a team of Japanese and American owners. More than 300 design drawings and two subdivision plats were prepared for this fast-track project in less than five months.

The facility is a 100,000-square-foot industrial building housing surimi and crab processing operations, a meal plant, and cold storage. Included are a 12,000-square-foot powerhouse furnishing 4 mega-watts of generator capacity; a 700,000-gallon fuel tank farm; more than 65,000 square feet of bunkhouse and townhouse living facilities (five buildings for 250 workers); a galley capable of seating 250; warehouse and repair buildings; a sheet pile dock with 650 feet of face; more than 20 acres of uplands development, encompassing building sites, roads, 150,000 cubic yards of fill behind the dock, and 40,000 cubic yards of disposal; 24-inch-diameter seawater intakes and outfall pipes; a 5,500-foot sewer force main, including a lift station; sewer/water site utilities; and connections to a 24-inch-dia-meter high-pressure freshwater force main.

PND surveyors recovered Alaska tideland survey monuments, tidal benchmarks, and local boundary to define datum and boundaries. A complete site plan was surveyed to define contours, upland and ocean bottom, existing facilities, buildings, roads, and aboveground utilities. Underground utilities were located by public locates. These were surveyed and added to base maps in conjunction with as-built drawings. Various generations of drawings were generated, including boundary maps, utility drawings, site plans, utility as-builts, proposed subdivision, and ocean bottom hydrographic surveys.

PND prepared and submitted all permits, including those required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Environmental Protection Agency (NPDES - Discharge); Department of Environmental Conservation (air quality); and Department of Natural Resources (Tideland Lease). PND coordinated architectural services for all buildings; managed electrical mechanical design for support buildings; and reviewed pre-engineered metal-building submittals.

Pile foundations were selected for the industrial, powerhouse, bunkhouse and galley buildings, due to the poor soil conditions at the site, while conventional grade beam and footing foundation design was provided for the 80- by 100-foot warehouse and for a 40- by 100-foot shop repair building. After assisting in procurement of the required sheet piles and foundation piles, PND proceeded to direct pile-driving activities. In all, more than 450 12-, 16- and 24-inch-dia-meter piles, or approximately 25,000 linear feet of pile, were installed in less than three months.