{"id":9324,"date":"2016-12-19T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2016-12-19T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:31:21","slug":"polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Vortex challenges $500 million urea fertilizer plant construction in North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"
MERCER COUNTY \u2014\u00a0Old Man Winter has thrown everything it has at Mercer County \u2014\u00a0two blizzards with nearly 30 inches of snow and extremely frigid temperatures \u2014 before winter has even arrived.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The inhospitable conditions are causing problems for builders of the largest construction project in North Dakota, where a full workweek has already been lost to storm days at Basin Electric Power Cooperative\u2019<\/a>s $500 million urea fertilizer plant<\/a>. Additionally, the critical need for workers to wear bulky clothing and take time out in warming huts leads to a loss of efficiency, says project manager Jim Greer.<\/div>\n

But when winter is boss, it\u2019s all about keeping workers safe from frostbite or worse. Conditions demanded that the project\u2019s cold-weather plan be kicked into gear right after Thanksgiving, Greer said.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve set up a number of heated huts throughout the work area and allow a lot more frequent breaks. We can take snow, and we can take wind, and we can take cold; but the combination of all three is pretty tough,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Besides the huts, another focus of the cold weather plan is ensuring safe access to the site and equipment, so constant snow removal is a high priority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

He said the storm days and efficiencies will either be made up with additional weekend hours as weather permits, or extended to the far end of the project schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll deal with it as it comes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

There are 900 workers at the site — a lot of bodies to keep track of in extreme conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
\n

Crane operations by Borsheim Crane Service Inc.<\/a> are suspended in winds in excess of 20 mph, and that\u2019s reduced the number of days that sheets of siding can be swung into place on the urea process buildings. As a consequence, the buildings continue to be more exposed than originally planned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Work is continuing, and Greer said the vertical support columns for the gigantic urea storage building will be set into place this week. This is the second time the 210- by 700-foot building is being erected; the original one was twisted and compromised beyond salvage during a severe summer storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re also energizing our 69-kilovolt power system that will supply permanent power to the plant, so there\u2019s a lot going on,\u201d Greer said.<\/div>\n
\n

Despite the weather-related delays, the last major piece of equipment \u2014\u00a0a sprayer air fan for the urea granulation process \u2014\u00a0was received and installed this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Construction crews will be on holiday Dec. 23 through Jan. 2, while managers use the time to fine-tune the completion plan and discuss the dynamic testing that will be required to commission each equipment component.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The plant is expected to\u00a0be completed by the end of June, and Basin is still discussing how to proceed with actual production, since the reconstructed storage building won\u2019t be done until early 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Work on the urea project started in 2014.<\/p>\n

(Reach Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"JLG-Ultra-Boom\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MERCER COUNTY \u2014\u00a0Old Man Winter has thrown everything it has at Mercer County \u2014\u00a0two blizzards with nearly 30 inches of snow and extremely frigid temperatures \u2014 before winter has even arrived. The inhospitable conditions are causing problems for builders of the largest construction project in North Dakota, where a full workweek has already been lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[193],"yoast_head":"\nPolar Vortex challenges $500 million urea fertilizer plant construction in North Dakota - MachineMarket Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polar Vortex challenges $500 million urea fertilizer plant construction in North Dakota - MachineMarket Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MERCER COUNTY \u2014\u00a0Old Man Winter has thrown everything it has at Mercer County \u2014\u00a0two blizzards with nearly 30 inches of snow and extremely frigid temperatures \u2014 before winter has even arrived. The inhospitable conditions are causing problems for builders of the largest construction project in North Dakota, where a full workweek has already been lost […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MachineMarket Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-19T17:31:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Borsheim-All-Terrain-265-ton-Crane.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"753\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"CraneMarket | Cranes for Sale and Rent\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/crane-market-logo.png\",\"width\":282,\"height\":81,\"caption\":\"CraneMarket | Cranes for Sale and Rent\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"MachineMarket Blog\",\"description\":\"Machine News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Borsheim-All-Terrain-265-ton-Crane.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":753},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/\",\"name\":\"Polar Vortex challenges $500 million urea fertilizer plant construction in North Dakota - MachineMarket Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-19T17:31:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-19T17:31:21+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d55314291bc2800387533231d1e82150\"},\"headline\":\"Polar Vortex challenges $500 million urea fertilizer plant construction in North Dakota\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-19T17:31:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-19T17:31:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#webpage\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/polar-vortex-challenges-500-million-urea-fertilizer-plant-construction-in-north-dakota\/#primaryimage\"},\"keywords\":\"Borsheim Crane Service\",\"articleSection\":\"Constuction & Business News,Crane & Lifting News,Equipment Rental News\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d55314291bc2800387533231d1e82150\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6761c958e8b054582d0855a0e4bc5407?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}