Venegas Construction

Business View Caribbean 3 neering solutions. “If you look at our track record, there was a point in time, in 1988, when we acquired the first large scale trencher in Puerto Rico,” he begins. “A trencher is a piece of equipment employed in the construction of underground pipelines in rocky subsur- face conditions. At the time it was an innovative, yet risky acquisition. Several years following that, we held a considerable market share of the underground pipe- line sector of the construction industry. “In 1990, we employed slip form construction and we poured a silo while moving forms and pouring con- crete continuously for nine days.” Slip forming is used for tall structures such as bridges, towers, buildings, and dams, as well as for horizontal structures, such as roadways. Slip forming enables continuous, non- interrupted, cast-in-place “flawless” (i.e. no joints) concrete structures which have superior performance characteristics when compared to piecewise construc- tion that utilizes discrete form elements. “We’re not experts in this, but we learned about the technology, we tried it and delivered it successfully,” he says. “Similarly, in 1992, we self-performed tilt-up construc- tion for the first time without having any prior experi- ence with tilt-up.” In a tilt-up construction project, a building’s walls are poured directly at the jobsite in large slabs of concrete called “tilt-uppanels” or “tilt- wall panels.” These panels are then raised into posi AT A GLANCE WHO: Venegas Construction Corporation WHAT: One of Puerto Rico’s premier construc- tion contractors WHERE: Ponce, Puerto Rico WEBSITE : www.venegasconstruction.com