(Washington, DC) Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced today that the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has selected Oregon Iron Works, Inc. to manufacture two modern streetcars for the DC Streetcar system. The new vehicles will be built in the United States and will run – along with the three vehicles the District already owns — on the H Street/Benning Road line beginning in 2013. The proposed Cooperative Purchase Agreement sent to the Council utilizes an existing contract for streetcar vehicles between Oregon Iron Works and the city of Portland, Oregon.

“This contract, which we have sent to the Council for consideration, reaffirms our commitment to begin streetcar service in the District next year,” said Mayor Gray. “Investing in streetcars makes sense both economically and environmentally, and we must continue to move forward with the program.”

“We are excited to partner with Oregon Iron Works,” said DDOT Director Terry Bellamy. “These streetcars, combined with the three cars previously purchased, will give us a fleet size that will allow us to successfully deliver a safe and reliable transit system for the District of Columbia.”

Oregon Iron Works (OIW) was founded in 1944 and now has more than $100 million in annual sales and 400 skilled craftsmen and support employees. It is the only domestic manufacturer of streetcar vehicles and has the only streetcar test track in the US for testing vehicles before they are delivered.

“We are extremely proud to be supplying American-made, modern streetcars to our nation’s capital,” said Chandra Brown, Vice President of Oregon Iron Works. “This means more manufacturing jobs throughout the United States for us and our great subcontractors.”

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Crane Hotline, March 29, 2011

OIW Working on the Installation of John Day Dam

By Tri City Herald Staff
Published: Jan 14, 2011

HANFORD — A massive door that will shield workers from radiation was installed at the Hanford vitrification plant this week.

The 102-ton door was lowered through the roof of the Pretreatment Facility, the largest building at the plant, and placed on top of an adjoining 85-ton door that was installed last month.

“This installation was particularly complex due to the size, shape and layout of these two massive doors,” Ty Troutman, Bechtel National area project manager for the facility, said in a statement. “It required extensive planning by our skilled craft and engineers.”

The carbon steel doors come together to form an upside-down L-shape. The upper, heavier door is oriented horizontally and will be the largest in any vit plant building. It measures 52 feet wide and 15 feet tall.

The lower door is oriented vertically and measures 15 feet wide and 27 feet tall. Both are 10 inches thick, including a stainless steel liner.

They were manufactured by Oregon Iron Works Inc. in Portland.

“Setting these doors, as well as the overhead crane last month, marks a transition in the Pretreatment Facility from a civil construction focus to mechanical installations,” Wahed Abdul, of the Department of Energy, said in a statement. “This will enable us to complete construction in 2016 and reach operations by 2019.”

The doors will be controlled using three giant motorized drive screws — two in the upper and one in the lower door. The screws are 20 feet long and about 3 inches in diameter. The upper door will slide open and closed vertically, and the lower door will slide horizontally.

The doors separate the canyon-like center of the Pretreatment Facility, known as the “hot cell,” from a maintenance area that will be used to service an overhead crane and remote-handling equipment. When operational, the hot cell will be used for the waste radioactive separations process and will be highly radioactive and inaccessible by humans. All hot cell maintenance will be performed using the crane and remote-handling equipment.

A third shield door separates the maintenance area from the rest of the Pretreatment Facility. The two doors installed recently and the third door will never be open at the same time.

Construction of the building is 34 percent complete.

by The Columbian

Monday, November 29, 2010

Crews from Oregon Iron Works in Vancouver have finished work on a 30-foot-by-98-foot curved panel that will become part of a new navigation gate near the John Day Dam.

The 250-ton gate section, one of four pieces that will fit together in the final downstream gate, is just one component in a $50 million effort to replace aging equipment along the Columbia and Snake rivers. The project will result in a 14-week halt to barge traffic upstream of The Dalles, Ore.

Vancouver-based Tidewater Barge, unable to navigate as it normally would, announced several weeks ago that it would temporarily lay off 200 workers due to the project.

But Tidewater officials have called the project necessary, because it will replace aging lock gates that are nearing the end of their life spans.

The component built by Oregon Iron Works, a subcontractor to Portland-based Advanced American Construction, was loaded last week onto a barge at the east slip of Vancouver’s Columbia Business Center. The barge is scheduled to leave for Bingen later this week, where it will wait until contractors are ready to receive the gate component, said Scott Clemans, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In addition to the John Day lock gate built by Oregon Iron Works, Vancouver-based Thompson Metal Fab Inc. has built a 750-ton gate system that will be welded into a large gate at the Lower Monumental Dam.

Wave energy development is seeing a flurry of activity in Oregon thanks to $4.7 million in grants from the United States Department of Energy and an influx of funding from a state initiative aimed at igniting the sector.

The Oregon Wave Energy Trust recently matched 20 percent of costs for four companies that won federal grants to develop wave energy projects or technology in Oregon. OWET also funded four feasibility studies for future wave energy projects at $50,000 each.

Jason Busch, executive director of the Oregon Wave Energy Trust said all of the money went to companies with proven technology to help develop projects or make wave energy technology more efficient, longer lasting and…

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by Libby Tucker, The Columbian

August 14, 2010

Vancouver Firm’s Wave-Energy Buoys Featured on Tour

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird visited Oregon Iron Works in Vancouver on Friday to talk about green job creation and his proposed wave-energy legislation.

The Clackamas, Ore.-based company, which operates a fabrication plant on the Columbia River-front in Vancouver, is finishing construction on the first of 10 prototype wave-energy buoys it’s building for New Jersey-based Ocean Power Technologies. When completed, the 130-foot-long structures will be installed in the Pacific Ocean about three miles off the coast of Reedsport, Ore.

“Here’s an example of jobs being created by the need for renewable energy,” said Baird, D-Vancouver. “I’d like (Washington) to lead the world in the export of renewable energy technology.”

The project will bring the company about $3 million to $4 million per buoy and employ about 35 full-time workers, said David Gibson, renewable energy program manager for Oregon Iron Works.

Oregon Iron Works officials say they hope that the wave-energy industry will blossom, leading to more job creation and long-term growth for the company. But more research and testing of the nascent technology must first be done to ensure it can compete financially with other forms of renewable energy, Gibson said.

“It’s a mighty big ocean,” Gibson said. “Our goal is to produce these on a big scale.”

Drafting legislation

In an effort to speed technology development, Baird is drafting a “marine hydrokinetic energy research and development” bill with Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., that would provide funding through the Department of Energy to develop wave, tidal and other hydrokinetic energy test sites throughout the U.S.

Such sites would allow testing of prototype technologies in areas where the environmental impacts have already been assessed, shortening the permitting process and time to market.

Baird expects to introduce the bill within coming weeks.

“It’s critical we get devices in the water,” Baird said. “We need a test bed so we can move quicker on this.”

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With over half a century of experience, OIW meets all the needs of the Bridge Industry. From Bascule Leaf, Swing Span and Vertical Lift Bridges, to floating spans such as the Hood Canal Bridge to being one of the few US fabricators on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, OIW can build it.

Whether OIW is providing simple Span Plate Girders, complex Box Girders, Sign Structures or other sign support equipment, we are serving the Bridge industry throughout the nation and are dedicated to meeting the most exacting requirements of both design and quality.

Additionally, OIW supports the Highway industry by providing signing structures that are built to the demanding AWS D1.5 Bridge Code. From simple Breakaway Sign Posts to the more complex Mono Tube Freeway Sign Structures, OIW is providing the highest quality product available.

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