Bovis Lend Lease, construction manager for the new RMH hospital and health campus, has contracted with Faulconer Construction Company, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., to provide site mass grading.

The first phase of site mass grading, which will begin in late September, consists of preparing the building pad (the ground where the hospital will sit) and creating access roads on the property. This work is expected to be completed in December, weather permitting. All mass grading on the site should be completed by spring 2007, according to Dennis Coffman, RMH director, facilities planning and development.

Faulconer Construction Company is a 60-year-old multi-discipline site and road contractor that serves customers both in Virginia and throughout the central Atlantic region. Recent projects include construction of two major sections of the four-lane I-288 loop road around Richmond, Va. Faulconer also served as site contractor on the 890 MW gas turbine generating station sited on 65 acres in Fluvanna County, Virginia.

“We selected six grading contractors to bid this work,” said Boney Jones, general superintendent for Bovis Lend Lease. Those contractors, in addition to Faulconer, were Perry Construction of Winchester; Partners Excavating of Harrisonburg; Branch Construction of Lynchburg; English Construction of Richmond; and Vesillo of Grogan, WVa.

Four of the six firms submitted bids.

“After evaluating all four of the bidders, we narrowed it down to Perry and Faulconer. We interviewed both companies and compared all aspects of their bids and decided Faulconer was a better fit,” Jones said.

Faulconer currently is ranked in the “Engineering News Record Top 600 Specialty Contractors.”

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