Project Update

Waterfront Improvements Project: Pier Update

BY: COLLIERS, OWNER”S REPRESENTATIVE

The Maine Maritime Academy Waterfront Improvements Project is proceeding in accordance with the construction plan. Through April, Maine Maritime’s marine contractor, Reed & Reed, has set over 130 of a total of 354 twenty-four inch diameter steel pilings for the new pier. Maine Drilling & Blasting, the production pile driving subcontractor, is on site drilling the installed pilings into their final position with more than 120 piles drilled to depth.

The second barge shipment of 106 pilings arrived in Castine in late-March, raising the delivered total to 168 piles. These piles are fabricated by Trinity Products in O’Fallon, Missouri, transported by rail to Niklyn Corp in North Haven, Connecticut, where they are sandblasted, coated, and loaded on seagoing barges for delivery to the project site in Castine. Once pile installation is complete, work installing pre-cast concrete caps, beams, and decking will commence. As concrete work progresses, the installation of power, piping, and mooring systems will begin.

The project is currently in Phase 1, which will conclude in the spring of 2026 and encompasses the new pier and mooring dolphins extending 137 feet from the end of the old pier and measuring 325 feet wide at the berthing face. Phase 2 includes the demolition and replacement of the existing pier, installation of the new floating breakwater on the western side of the new pier, completion of the small boat basin, and final equipment installation, testing and commissioning of the completed pier. Phase 2 is expected to be completed in the spring of 2027.

MMA and its contractors, Reed & Reed, Colliers Engineering, and GZA Architects, continue to work closely together and with the Town of Castine to coordinate these efforts to insure a safe, efficient, and timely completion of the project in the constrained the MMA Waterfront Campus. We are pleased to report that workers have logged more than 30,000 safe hours on-site.

 

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