STG Statement of Qualifications June 2014 | Page 21

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SERVICES
• Erosion control
• Mooring point installation
• Bridge and walkway construction
• Ice and snow road construction
• Demolition
• Drilling and blasting

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Tuntutuliak Elevated Boardwalk
The Yup’ik native village of Tuntutuliak
is almost completely surrounded by
water. Before 2008, everyday travel to the
school or health clinic was a challenge
for the village’s 400 residents. Scattered
streams and lakes set between patches
of wetlands made conventional paved
streets an impractical solution. Instead,
the Alaska Department of Transportation
commissioned the construction of a nearly
mile-long elevated boardwalk connecting
the village to the airport.
To preserve the delicate ecosystem, STG
built the structure during the winter atop
frozen tundra when the ground is more
stable. Made up of 380 driven piles, 800,000
pounds of galvanized structural steel, and
1.4 million pounds of treated timbers, the
serpentine boardwalk is the largest one of
its kind in the entire state and serves as a
model for other remote communities. The
entire project was completed in just five
short months.

Above: Sheet pile wall | Drift River 2012
Below: Elevated boardwalk | Tuntutuliak 2008