DEC Contracting Group, Inc. – Fakahatchee Strand Preserve Park

This project appeals to the outdoor enthusiasts as it sits situated right off US41right in the middle of the State Park Preservation. Preexisting there was a piece of the original US 41built in the 1940’s that the contractor removed. Contractor Dewatered/Demucked about two acres of area to place a roadside parking lot that included a restroom building that sits on concrete piles, a structural steel pedestrian bridge that extends over a body of water, and an interpretive pavilion also on concrete piles to overlook the preserve. After taking the pedestrian bridge over to the pavilion, the construction continued via a wooden board walk meandering through the preserve that ends at the neighboring Indian village. The construction constraints of this project were tight as the contractor was building on a preserve and cannot extend beyond the footprint of Contruction, all equipment, materials and construction activities had to stay with in the footprint. Boardwalk construction consisted of workers in the waist deep water of the preserve driving wooden piles and building handrails meeting the design specs.