Potawatomi Expansion

Schneider's team called on a fleet of Putzmeister truck-mounted concrete boom pumps from Gordy's Concrete Pumping, Sussex, Wis., to place the 40,000 cubic yards of concrete needed for this project.

One of Gordy's larger pours came in May 2007, when its 55- and 63Z-Meter truck-mounted concrete pumps placed 2,300 cubic yards for a mat slab in eight hours.

According to Gordy's territory manager, Mike Salmon, it usually takes a year and a half to place 40,000 cubic yards of concrete by traditional methods. On this job, Gordy's is averaging 4,000 cubic yards of concrete per month.

To top off the roof level of the West section of the gaming building and place the second deck of the East section of the casino building, Gordy's used its 55-meter and "Big Dog" 63Z-Meter boom pumps. The two units placed a total of 900 cubic yards of concrete in four hours.

Gordy's will be placing concrete on the site until early 2008.