RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.

Fall Creek Reservoir and Fish Ladder
Lowell, OR, United States

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned RCSI to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria as well as build a new fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species. The full project included a new fish ladder, pre-sort structure, fish crowder, transportation flumes, anesthetic tank, recovery tank, false weir, brail assembly, headbox dewatering flume, and post-sort structure.

The approximately two-year project came with many complexities, including the restriction of a tower crane, which resulted in the contractor selecting DUO handset formwork, ultimately reducing equipment costs. Originally RSCI bid to achieve a production rate of 0.16 man-hours per square foot with the DUO system. But, when workers began using the lightweight, durable, and intuitive formwork they were able to achieve 0.09 man-hours per square foot, cutting the production rate in almost half and providing additional cost savings to RSCI

DUO handset formwork system was primarily used to form the steps of the fishway.

Contractor
RSCI Construction

 

 

 

 

Location
Lowell, OR

The Project

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RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.
RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.
RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.

Project Information

Requirements
Due to the tight site and geotechnical properties of the location, a tower crane was unable to be used.  
Solutions
Lightweight handset concrete forms reduce labor needed and increase productivity.
“From my standpoint, I’m looking at the productive of the formwork. I rely heavily on what the people in the field recommend to me, and they had a lot of positive comments. We have been very impressed with the DUO formwork.”
“From my standpoint, I’m looking at the productive of the formwork. I rely heavily on what the people in the field recommend to me, and they had a lot of positive comments. We have been very impressed with the DUO formwork.”
Trent Dyksterhouse
Project Manager
From my standpoint, I’m looking at the productivity of the formwork. I rely heavily on what the people in the field recommend to me, and they had a lot of positive comments, we have been very impressed with the DUO formwork.

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RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.
RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.

Lowell, OR United States

RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.
RCSI was commissioned to upgrade the existing Fall Creek Reservoir fish facility to comply with current environmental criteria and build a fish lab to transport native salmon and endangered species.