AZCO INC. and our projects have been covered by top industry publications:
MCAA
NATIONAL UPDATE (Mechanical Contractors Association of America)
The Week of
August 17, 2009 Updates –
AZCO ACHIEVES PHENOMENAL SAFETY MILESTONE - AZCO
INC. (Appleton, WI) recently reached another safety milestone-five
million work hours without a lost-time incident-an exceptional
achievement for a company with 110 full time employees and 350-400
construction craft workers in its shops and in the field. Ted Carew,
AZCO's safety director, attributes the company's impressive safety
record to its Zero Injury Philosophy and overall awareness of the safety
process throughout the company. AZCO President Mark Loper supports the
total commitment to providing a safe workplace, "The safety program
starts with executive management and filters down."
www.mcaa.org/update
ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD
The Top 400 Contractors Listing –
AZCO INC has been listed as
# 32 in the Top 50 Power, # 20 in the Top 25 Fossil
Fuel, and # 6 in the Top 10 Operations and Maintenance in the September
14, 2009 issue of ENR's Top
Contractors Sourcebook.
The Top 400 Contractors Listing – AZCO
INC. was listed in 2006 and 2007 as a Top 20
Power Contractor in the
United States.
ENR - May 22, 2006
ENR - May 21/28, 2007
www.enr.com
POWER ENGINEERING
Clearing the Air in The Twin Cities – a story about the visionary plan to significantly reduce air emissions proposed by Xcel Energy involving the High Bridge Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota.
POWER ENGINEERING – June 2007
www.power-eng.com
POWER Magazine
Top Plants – High Bridge Combined Cycle Project, St. Paul, Minnesota
– Xcel Energy's High Bridge Plant was listed as a Top
Gas-Fired Plant in the September 2008 issue. The article describes how
Xcel Energy Corporation replaced their coal-fired plant with a
less-carbon-intensive combined cycle plant. AZCO was contracted to
install the underground circulating water piping, install two
combustion turbines and a steam turbine, install the steam surface
condenser, two HRSGs and the auxiliary boiler. The HRSGs were
erected on site into two separate super modules and slid into the
building for installation.
This project won the Minnesota OSHA Star Award in January 2007 for
completing 300,000 total work hours
POWER – September 2008
www.powermag.com
Cover Story: 2008 Plant of the Year
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation's Weston 4 earns POWER's
highest honor –
Wisconsin Public Service
Corporation placed its world-class Weston 4 into commercial service
on June 30 and is now enjoying the benefits of coal-fired
supercritical technology's inherently higher efficiency, operating
flexibility and lower CO2 emissions. For its unequalled
environmental protection credentials, well-integrated project team
and employing without a doubt the most advanced coal-fired steam
generation technology of the U.S. today, Weston 4 is awarded POWER
magazine's 2008 Plant of the Year award. AZCO was contracted for the
construction of six separate conveyors, construction of the two
junction houses, modifications to the existing crusher house and
other mechanical equipment installations.
POWER – August 2008
www.powermag.com
Project Management – How to Make a Power Plant a Welcome Neighbor, Faribault Energy Park, Faribault, Minnesota –
Developing power projects has become less of a technical challenge and more of an exercise in developing good relationships among all the stakeholders. If a community understands the need for a new plant and is involved in its development process, the odds of a successful project increase. As reflected in one of the pictures showcased in the article, AZCO was contracted for the complete erection and alignment of the steam turbine.
POWER – March 2008
www.powermag.com
Top Plants – Pleasant Prairie Power Plant Air Quality Control Upgrade Project, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin – We Energies Pleasant Prairie Plant was listed as a Top Plant in the October 2007 issue. The article describes how the plant is a good example of how existing plants retrofitted with NOx and SO2 removal systems benefit from early planning and action.
POWER – October 2007
www.powermag.com
Cover Story: Plant of the Year Award
MidAmerican’s Walter Scott Jr. Energy Center 4 earns POWER’s highest honor –This article describes, in detail, the first major new supercritical plant in the United States in more than 15 years and was awarded POWER’s 2007 Plant of the Year Award.
POWER – August 2007
www.powermag.com
Clean Coal Combustion – Designing and Upgrading Plants to Blend Coal – Coal-handling systems have three major subsystems that must be considered both individually and collectively for their compatibility with blending – unloading, stockout and reclaim. This article discusses options for blending and describes 12 power plants, new and old, that address the issue. AZCO INC. worked on #5 – Kingston Fossil Plant and #8 – Widows Creek Fossil Plant.
POWER – October 2006
www.powermag.com
Midwest Construction
Midwest Construction is a McGraw Hill Construction Publication aimed at the industrial, business and government construction industry in the Midwest. The December 2007 issue featured the Best of 2007 Projects across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Eastern Missouri including the Bayshore Town Center, a project AZCO worked on in 2006. Unique issues to the site included a tight, 47-acre site, 22-month schedule, proximity to a residential neighborhood and the fact that the mall had to remain open during construction.
Midwest Construction – December 2007
www.modern.construction.com
Modern Steel Construction
– a publication of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.
Walking Tall – an article describing the challenges and unique project site of the Davenport Skybridge, a long-span pedestrian walkway crossing over the top of a heavily traveled roadway and busy railroad tracks.
MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION – February 2006
www.modernsteel.com
IDEAS Awards – Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel –
The design and construction industry recognized the importance of teamwork, coordination and collaboration in fostering successful construction projects, awarding companies and all team members responsible for excellence and innovation in a project’s use of structural steel. AZCO INC. was a member of the team who worked on the award-winning Skybridge in Davenport, Iowa.
MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION – May 2006
www.modernsteel.com
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