Challenge: The Hazleton Intermodal Facility located in downtown Hazleton was built to provide the community with a full service bus station for local, regional and long distance bus transportation. Eight existing utility poles needed to be relocated to underground services before construction could begin. Also, temporary power needed to be provided to the site to keep the project on schedule.
Solution: Reworking the utility and communications from overhead to underground had to be coordinated with the City of Hazleton, Penn Dot, PP&L and four telecom utilities all within a two month period. One month of the schedule was resolving all the issues with the utility companies and the duck bank locations. Through all the changes and coordination issues, the site work was completed on time allowing the building foundations to be started. Hayden Electric’s solution to providing temporary power was to bring in power from another building whose owner allowed Hayden to tap into their panel and provide power to the building site. Hayden Electric also installed an extra underground conduit while the trench was open into the duct bank as a back-up plan. Hayden Electric was able to offer many value added driven solutions to the owner to keep the project on schedule and on budget. One item offered was to utilize the fire alarm system as the paging system. Other solutions were data, telephone and video entry systems.
Results:
- The long-term goal of Church Street Station is to provide high-speed train service to New York City.
- The exterior of the building was designed to mimic the architecture of the early 20th century train station that once existed on this site.
- The building utilized occupancy sensors on the interior and photocells for the exterior lighting. The interior fixtures used low energy fluorescent lamps, all keeping the project in the green environment.
- Recipient of 2009 Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc., Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter, Merit Shop Award of Excellence in Construction – Electrical Commercial
