US CUSTOMS - NEWARK, NJ

Williams Construction Services of Newark, the Construction Manager for the new home of the US Customs and Border Protection Service at 1100 Raymond Boulevard in Newark, New Jersey, recently engaged Papp Iron Works as the project’s steel contractor.

The project, involved extensive alterations to adapt an existing 5 story building for new mechanical systems requiring structural steel for extensive roof top dunnage, a new rooftop mechanical equipment room and steel framing for new elevators and mechanical shafts along with the reinforcing of various columns and floor beams. All the work was performed on an existing building in a highly urban setting within an extremely compressed schedule making the job the type of challenge Papp Iron Works specializes in.  “Papp was able to deliver our steel on time which was crucial to meeting the project’s schedule” says Charlie Oberlin, Vice President of Williams Construction Services, Inc. “They were clearly the right choice since we required a firm with the capability to engineer, field verify, fabricate, rig and install the steel on a fast-track basis for this challenging project”. The U.S. Customs & Border Protection’s schedule was not Papp Iron Works only challenge; all rigging of steel had to be done off-hours and required the complete street shut-down. Papp Iron Works handled the logistics which involved including permitting with the City of Newark, provided all uniformed security during all hoisting and successfully rigged all the structural steel over several weekends with a 220 ton crane fitted with a 332’ main boom and 185’ of working jib.