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RepairStructuralGeneralLessons Learned on Spillway Shotcrete Overlay

Billy Roy, P.E.

The original Request for Bids specified that cast-in-place concrete be used, with no substitutions provided. After multiple site visits to better understand staging and access, debris removals, and placement logistics, KISC began to develop a value-engineered approach involving the use of air-entrained wet-process shotcrete to replace the cast-in-place specification…