Name of Project: Hunter’s Station Bridge
Type of Project: Drilled Shafts
Completion Date: March 2017
Location: Tionesta, Pa
Duration of Project: 12 weeks
General Contractor: Mekis Construction
Owner: Penn DOT District 10

For this project, we installed four caissons for bridge abutments and piers. The caissons were 132” diameter shafts with 126” diameter rock sockets. The shafts ranged from 48 to 65 feet deep. We used full-length reinforcing and permanent casing, and poured SCC Concrete using the tremie method.

Name of Project: Kennywood’s Steel Curtain Rollercoaster
Type of Project: Caissons
Completion Date: September 2018
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Duration of Project: 10 weeks
Owner: Kennywood Park

Who doesn’t love Kennywood? Shelly Drilling is proud to have worked on the most recent addition to Kennywood Park. Kennywood engineered the new Steel Curtain roller coaster to have 152 caissons , and they ranged from 42” up to 90” diameter. The shafts needed socketed into sandstone rock anywhere from 5’ up to 11’ deep.