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This issue features the incredible story of Arabi Sling and their journey to discover priorities, both personally and professionally, after the devastation suffered following Hurricane Katrina’s unexpected impact on their Louisiana business and home.

Also, during the first week in May, I had the opportunity to visit with many friends and supporters of the Wire Rope Exchange in Houston for the 2011 Offshore Technology Conference. I witnessed expansive exhibit halls and record attendance levels (the largest conference since 1982.) But what really amazed me with this year’s OTC was the constant and audible buzz of business being made and new relationships being built. Companies and individuals from across the globe

to just down the road from Reliant Park in Houston came together to introduce products, seek new business, and catch up with clients. It was especially impressionable to me as I can relate to the value placed in having a venue that facilitates industry growth.

Finally, I have some exciting news to share. The Wire Rope Exchange has been a valued member within the Rigging Industry for nearly thirty years. Started by my Father as a way to move overstock inventory, it has continued to evolve and now serves as an international sales magazine reaching thousands of companies. This month, I am proud to announce that I am the new Owner of the Wire Rope Exchange and will also continue to serve as Editor. I hope to build upon the idea that my Father first started and firmly believe that the Exchange is unique as the one industry source that offers a true marketplace and connection for like-minded companies to conduct business. I’ve been excited to introduce several new features over the past few years ranging from new feature sections, updated logo design, new digital resources and pertinent events and content. I want to thank all of you for your support and for noticing the ‘little things’ as they improve – it is appreciated and helpful and continuing to provide you with the best marketplace possible. While we have made great strides, this is just the beginning and I’m looking forward to introducing many new changes and improvements in the coming months as well – the best is yet to come!

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14 | Raising HopeMany have gone through a challenging situation but few can relate to losing a business and a home all in one day. We share the story of Arabi Sling, a rigging company located in Arabi, Louisiana, who was devastated in the wake of Katrina, but has battled back against all odds to bring their company and homes back to life.

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[INdUstRY NEWs]Hercules slR GrowsIMP Group International Inc. is stepping away from the marine products and service company that entrepreneur Ken Rowe launched his business empire with about 40 years ago.

Hercules SLR Inc., a privately held firm located in Dartmouth’s Burnside Park, confirmed Friday that it has purchased all the assets of IMP Marine Division.

“We look forward to leveraging the strengths of both companies in order to grow,” said Hercules president Chris Giannou.

Hercules is a marine engineering and services business that operates throughout Atlantic Canada. The company also operates in Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada.

Details of the transaction, which closed on March 31, were not released.

IMP Group indicated only that the transaction had occurred.

As part of the purchase deal, Giannou said Hercules agreed to offer employment to all active employees of IMP Marine. He said all IMP Marine Division employees accepted the job offer. It was unclear exactly how many employees were involved.

“We plan to continue to operate all 10 (IMP Marine) locations,” said Giannou.

Hercules SLR was formerly known as Bridgeport Wire Rope & Chain. Hercules SLR has 11 shops throughout 6 provinces. With over 200 employees, Hercules SLR specializes in marine equipment and apparatus for securing, lifting and rigging.

IMP Group International Inc. employs about 3,500 people in a variety of sectors including aerospace, aviation, airline, healthcare, information technology, hospitality and property development.

Rowe is listed as the company’s executive chairman while Stephen Plummer is listed as president and chief executive officer.

HAlO and Gaylin MergeLate 2010, by merger of two great forces, Halo, LLC of Louisiana, Gaylin (USA) PTE, Ltd. of Singapore, the formation of Halo Wire Rope, LLC is official. Halo, LLC is a supplier of wire rope and rigging hardware to the marine industry, and offers testing, inspection, and training services to keep “LIFE FIRST”.

Gaylin International is a 36 year old company that is now lead by its Managing Director/ CEO, Desmond Teo. He and the Teo family have steadily grown Gaylin through a basic philosophy of enhanced

capabilities, product innovation, and strong relationships with customers and suppliers.

With a great friendship and unwavering mutual respect, it was only a matter of time before Ken Ragusa and Desmond Teo figured out a way to better this industry for the future. “Gaylin is currently the premier rigging shop in the world with great strength, experience, a strong reputation and capabilities that are unmatched. Halo, LLC has lead the way in setting new industry standards in order to bring workers back home safely to their families. We are now combining our experience and beliefs to improve this industry worldwide,” says Ken Ragusa, Halo Wire Rope, LLC, President / CEO.

Together they will form HALO Wire Rope, LLC. While HALO Wire Rope LLC is strategically located in Houma and Port Fourchon Louisiana, it plans to expand facilities worldwide in the near future. It is the mission of HALO Wire Rope LLC, to bring its message of “LIFE FIRST”, global and make its mark on the Oil and Gas industry.

HALO Wire Rope, LLC has fully operational rigging shops with an unprecedented inventory of small and large diameter wire ropes up to 6” in diameter and rigging hardware of all sizes and pull-testing capabilities to 3 million pounds. Halo Wire Rope, LLC is here to fulfill the oil and gas industry’s rigging needs no matter how large or small.

InterMoor Celebrates Grand Opening of New Morgan City FacilityInterMoor Inc., an Acteon company, celebrated the grand opening of its new state‐of‐the‐art facility in Morgan City, La. on March 24 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception that included tours of the facility.Tim Matte, Mayor of Morgan City, Mac Wade, Morgan City Port Commis-sioner, and Louisiana Economic Develop-ment Association (LEDA) representative, Don Pearson all served as keynote speakers at the ceremony that attracted more than 300 guests.

“The opening of this facility was a long time coming – nearly 14 months,” said President Tom Fulton. “But the hard work was well worth it as we have already landed fabrication projects that would not have been

possible in the old facility.”The choice to keep InterMoor offices in

Louisiana will allow the company to retain more than 200 jobs and facilitate future growth. LEDA estimates that the facility will generate more than $49 million in new state tax revenues and more than $35 million in local tax revenues over a 15‐year period.

The 24 acre facility houses the offices of administrative, maintenance, operations and fabrication employees. Amenities include more than 30,000‐sq‐ft of fabrication space; mooring storage capabilities; a 12,000‐sq‐ft multi‐purpose building for administrative and operations employees; a 7,500‐sq‐ft wire doping area to inspect, protect and prepare wire rope for offshore jobs; and a state‐of‐the‐art 20,000‐sq‐ft

blasting and painting facility. Equipment includes a high‐tech CNC cutting machine, mooring equipment; and a 300‐ton crane to enhance docking services.

InterMoor is the leading global mooring, foundations and subsea services company, providing innovative solutions for rig moves, mooring services and offshore operations including engineering and design, survey and positioning, fabrication and subsea installation.

Unitex Group U.s.A. Announce Grand Opening of New FacilityUnitex Group U.S.A. recently held its official grand opening at their new facility in Pied-mont, SC. Unitex Group U.S.A. is a mem-ber of the Unitex Group, an international manufacturing, marketing and distributor of lifting products.

Jim Posa, CEO of Unitex Group U.S.A., commented of their grand opening, “We believe the North American lifting industry is poised for continued growth and Unitex Group, as an international organization, was looking for an area in the U.S. that had a supportive community and state as well as a skilled workforce for its first manufacturing operations in the U.S. We are looking forward to growing our business well beyond the initial five-year projections as we bring in new technologies and develop new markets beyond the synthetic lifting areas.”

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the Next Generation for the Wire Rope ExchangeWhat started out in 1985 as a simple idea to create a newsletter that would promote and serve the wire rope industry has, in recent years, evolved to become a leading resource for news, information, corporate profiles and mass merchandising across a multitude of related industries.

In May of this year, The Wire Rope Exchange (WRE) will reach yet another milestone under the guiding hand and vision of its new owner, Melissa Hood.

In its infancy, the WRE established a new outlet for multiple distributors to promote and sell their products to a specifically targeted market. From its roots as a printed publication distributed bimonthly, eight years later in 1993, the WRE became the first online marketplace for wire companies

opening a new buy/sell Internet venue for the rigging industry. The online store, wireropeexchange.com, quickly became an opportune resource where distributors could 24/7 list, connect and move excess inventory.

WRE founder, Pat Poe, has a vast experience in the lifting industry dating back to 1979 when he started Cumberland Sales Company (CSC) in Nashville, TN. From its early start in the wire rope industry, CSC has grown to become more than an industrial wire and hardware company to today manufacturing a top rated equipment line featuring the popular winding machines including the tough load-built take-up machines from the TU5000 to the TU 60,000. For Poe, his creation of the WRE was a natural spin-off for CSC.

In 2006, Poe’s daughter, Melissa Hood assumed the reins as editor of the WRE. The original focus of the newsletter was to provide and promote a marketplace for overstocked products. With a degree in communications from Wake Forest University, Hood quickly expanded the popular international sales magazine’s circulation and distribution beyond the wire rope and fabrication field into the related rigging, lifting, load securing and fitting

industries worldwide. The Magazine has grown to become the number-one-desk-top resource for not only products but also the latest industry news, business profiles, innovation and safety announcements, company postings and trade show updates.

In May, Hood will complete the purchase of the Wire Rope Exchange from Poe. Her future plans for WRE include a new Wire Rope Exchange website offering additional resources along with the ability to market products and services and interface companies in the wire, crane and rigging industry. The magazine will also undergo a facelift with a new logo and a more modern appearance.

According to Hood, “I am proud of this opportunity to follow in my father’s footsteps and carry on his legacy of ‘promoting the industry to sell within the industry’”.

dNv 2.7-3 Certification Issued For IWOCs Reel drop testRadoil, Inc. an ISO 9001:2008 design and manufacturing company is pleased to announce that it has received DNV 2.7-3 Certification for the successful Drop Test that was completed on a newly designed IWOCSreel.


[INdUstRY NEWs]The DNV Drop Test involved loading

the 120”W x 227”L x 138.5”H reel frame with 62,619 pounds (28,403.5 kg) of weight and dropping it 2.75 inches onto one corner. The frame’s load path welds were mag-particle and ultrasound tested pre and post drop for any failures and the frame dimensions were re-inspected to make sure no structural damage or distortion had occurred. The test was performed in front of DNV and customer inspectors and passed successfully.

As deepwater drilling and production work has become more sophisticated and expensive Radoil has become one of the world’s primary suppliers of deepwater reels. For working rigs in 12,000 feet of water 150 miles from the nearest land, tools and equipment must be as dependable as possible. Radoil designs, constructs and tests its equipment to the highest standards.

Radoil has had a longstanding relationship with DNV and has several products that have received DNV Type Approval. Our IWOCS, MUX and Hotline reels are built and tested to be very sturdy and reliable they also include several patented features that make them the preferred reels. Spare parts kits are available so the reels can be readily maintained in the field. Per customer request, Radoil will design reels that can be operated locally at the reel, or from a remote control panel or both. Control panels can be configured to operate as many reels from one station as requested.

Radoil, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Houston, Texas. As of January 14, 2010, the company operates as a subsidiary of Tulsa Power, Inc.

Bridon to Open state-of-the-Art Facility in UKInternational wire & rope manufacturer Bridon will be bringing a state-of-the-art fac-tory to Tyneside, UK.

Jon Templeman, the Chief Executive of the Bridon Group, announced the decision alongside Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg late April, at Bridon’s nearby Willington Quay facility.

The Neptune Energy Park, based on the river Tyne in Newcastle, was chosen as the final location for the plant due to the strong existing skills-base in the area, ongoing lower logistical costs, and a significant grant from the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) in the UK. Subject to standard due diligence conducted by the RGF, the facility is planned to be operational from October 2012

The factory will produce multi-strand

ropes that are the largest and most complex in the world, with piece weights of up to 600 tons. The ropes will be used in projects in some of the most difficult environments in the world.

The new facility will enable Bridon to manufacture innovative next generation specialist ropes, to meet increasingly demanding challenges within the energy, mining and industrial sectors. The facility is set to advance the company’s position as a global technology leader.

thomsen Honored and sC&RA Elects slate of Officers for 2011-2012Gordon Thomsen was named the 11th recipient of SC&RA’s Gold Achievement Award during closing night ceremonies at the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) Annual Conference, at the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, Calif. This coveted award, which is not presented every year, goes to an in-dividual who has made an outstanding contribution to the specialized carrier and rigging industry over a consistent and significant period of time.

In 1973, Thomsen started Western Ag Sales, a small home-based trailer company in Mitchell, S.D. that evolved into Trail King Industries, an industry leader with more than 500 employees, three manufacturing facilities, and 300 dealer locations across the U.S. and Canada. Today, Trail King offers trailers ranging in load capacities from 6,000 pounds to 1 million pounds, serving a wide variety of applications for markets as diverse as specialized hauling, construction, agriculture,

transportation, waste and recycling.Trail King has been responsible for

numerous innovations. Among the most notable of these was the development of what many at the time considered the best hydraulic detachable gooseneck in the industry – a system that made hooking up and unhooking a simple, one-person “60-second connection.”

When presenting the award, SC&RA Chairman Bill Stramer characterized Gordon Thomsen as an innovative pioneer and a consumate salesman, known for saying, “Nothing happens until someone sells something.

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Thomsen and his family remained active in the company after selling it to Carlisle Companies, Inc., in 1995. The company was purchased by CC Industries, Inc., the holding and management firm of Henry Crown and Company, in 2010. Many long-time Trail King employees continue to work within the company, operating with the same sense of pride and quality commitment that Gordon Thomsen instilled in them years back.

Among the other honors Thomsen has earned over the years are Small Business Person of the Year, Small Business Administration’s Exporter of the Year and South Dakotan of the Year. His son, Jerry, served as SC&RA President in 2005-2006.

Also During the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) Annual Conference, David Lowry, Bennett International Group, McDonough, Ga. was elected as President.

samson And sWOs Work With technip to de-velop a synthetic Heavy lift sling solution

Samson high-performance synthetic slings helped Technip install subsea hardware at Petrobras’ Cascade & Chinook project.

Installing two pumping stations and two manifolds at Petrobras’s Cascade and Chinook fields in the Gulf of Mexico at depths in excess of 2,500m was accomplished with a “wet handshake” and the assistance of Samson’s AmSteel-Blue fabricated into lifting slings for the operation. Technip was the contractor, and Deep Blue was the installation vessel used during the deepwater installation. The project is among the deepest subsea installations in the Gulf of Mexico, and marks the first use of an

FPSO in U.S. waters. While formulating installation procedures, Southwest Ocean Services (SWOS) and Samson’s offshore technical sales team were in contact with the operations and installation team at Technip, who intended to use the wet handshake technique to transfer loads from Deep Blue’s overboard crane to the A&R winch in the moonpool to the seafloor. Since the handshake was to be accomplished with ROV’s, the use of wire rope slings would have presented many rigging and handling issues due to the weight and stiffness of the wire.

SWOS worked with Technip’s design team to develop a synthetic solution, not only for the sling, but also for the custom chafing gear and the project specific ROV handling slings.

Samson’s AmSteel-Blue, a high-strength, lightweight Dyneema fiber rope was used to fabricate the slings. AmSteel-Blue is as strong as wire ropes the same size, yet is neutrally buoyant or slightly positive in seawater, making handling by ROV a simple matter requiring a minimum of power.

Southwest Ocean Services, a Samson master distributor located in Houston, Texas, fabricated the slings to Technip’s specifications from existing stock. The 3.625-in. (88-mm) diameter AmSteel-Blue was spliced into grommets 50m in length. Both eyes of each sling were fitted with Samson’s DC Gard high-performance chafe gear, equipped with two small-diameter ROV handling grommets made from .5-in. Samson Quik-Splice, and a polypropylene rod inserted into the eye section of each small grommet. This resulted in a rigid eye section with positive buoyancy perfect for capture by the manipulation arms of an ROV. At total of 16 slings rated at 190-metric-ton working loads were fabricated and tested for the installation of four hardware packages and four suction piles.

At the time of the installation, the subsea hardware arrived via barge, with each of the hardware packages and suction piles pre-fitted with two high-performance synthetic slings. Deep Blue’s 400-metric-ton outboard crane was used to lift the hardware packages using one of the two attached slings. The hardware was lowered to 100m, where an ROV captured a special grommet attached to the second lifting sling and ferried the eye of the sling to the hook of Deep Blue’s moonpool A&R winch. With the load transferred to the A&R winch, the sling was freed from the hook of the outboard crane and the hardware

lowered to the seafloor for installation. The wet handshake was complete.

Kito Corporation Assists JapanJapanese crane manufacturer Kito Corpora-tion is donating JPY20m to a relief fund for victims of the earthquake that devastated northeast of Japan last month.

Employees of the firm, who were all fortunately unharmed, have also contributed to the JPY20m sum.

The donation will be used by the Japanese Red Cross Society to fund relief efforts by charity organisations at work in the country.

Kito Corporation expects the disaster to have a minimal effect on its business performance this year, despite disruption caused by the rolling energy blackouts imposed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in the aftermath of the tragedy.

The company reports that operations at its headquarters and main production facility in Yamanashi are largely unaffected.

OtC Reaches Highest Attendance and largest Exhibition since 1982Attendance at the 2011 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) reached a 29-year high of 78,150, up 8% from last year, as offshore en-ergy industry experts from around the world came together at the world’s largest event for offshore resources development. OTC was held 2-5 May at Reliant Park in Houston.

Attendance surpassed the 2010 total of 72,025, and the sold-out exhibition was the largest since 1982 at 603,000 square feet, up from 568,000 square feet in 2010. New this year was the OTC Parkway spanning from Reliant Center to Reliant Arena, which increased the outdoor exhibition space. The event had 2,520 companies from 40 countries, including 306 new exhibitors in 2011, and added exhibitors from Egypt, Hong Kong, Indonesia and the Philippines.

“The outstanding attendance underscores that OTC is the show to attend, and reflects the economic recovery as well as the importance of global offshore resource development in meeting world energy demand. This is an industry that rises to and meets incredible challenges, and the best minds from around the world come together at OTC to share our knowledge, to learn about technological advances and innovative approaches, to solve problems and to discuss important issues that affect the entire planet,” said Susan Cunningham,


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This year’s event offered one of the strongest technical programs ever with speakers from every major global producing area. A primary focus of the conference was the impact on deepwater drilling of the Macondo accident in the Gulf of Mexico, with 11 sessions presenting government and energy leaders discussing the lessons learned to take forward across the globe. OTC’s Spotlight on New Technology program highlighted 15 innovative technologies that are already making the industry more effective.

OTC continues to grow with two new conferences being held in 2011. The OTC Arctic Technology Conference was held in February in Houston, focusing on both offshore and onshore technology for Arctic exploration and development. OTC Brasil, focusing on global deepwater projects with a special emphasis on Brazil, will be held in Rio de Janeiro in October, and is attracting strong exhibitor interest.

The 2012 OTC takes place 30 April-3 May 2012 at Reliant Park.

URs Energy and Construction Named Nation’s safest Construction Company in 2010URS Energy and Construction of Boise, Idaho was named the nation’s safest construc-tion company in 2010 by the Associated General Contractors of America. The associa-tion, which oversees the Construction Safety Excellence Awards, an annual ranking of construction safety programs, noted that 38 other companies were selected as winners for the quality of their safety programs.

“For the construction industry, protecting employees is a top priority,” said Ted Aadland, the association’s past president and the CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Aadland Evans Constructors, Inc. “Completed projects don’t mean anything if worker safety is compromised.”

Aadland said URS Energy and Construction was selected as this year’s Grand Prize winner because of its strong commitment to safety. He noted that the company was dedicated to the development and implementation of premier safety and

loss prevention programs. The company presented outstanding leadership in safety and occupation health management, risk control, safety training, work site hazard identification and control, and safety program innovation, Aadland added.

Aadland noted that there are multiple winners because the awards are distributed for a number of categories, based on the size of the company, the amount of work performed and the type of work performed. He added that the Construction Safety Excellence Award winners are selected by a panel of five independent safety professionals within the government, corporate and insurance industries. Final judging for the awards program took place during last week’s annual convention for the contractors’ association. y

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ArAbi Sling & rigging CompAny, inC. traces its beginnings to the garage behind the home of louis H. Flores Jr. and maxine Flores in Arabi, louisiana. Arabi is situated on the East bank of the mississippi river in St. bernard parish, next to the lower 9th Ward in new orleans.

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A fAmily – and a fAmily business – endure Hurricane Katrina. ( )

Louis had worked in the wire and rigging business since the age of fifteen, and when he started his company in 1972, he was already employed as a supervisor with a local firm. For the next six years he grew his business one client at a time, coming home from a long day’s work, sitting down for a meal and then excusing himself to the garage where he would fill the latest orders and working well into the night. With the help of his wife and kids, the work was finished on time each day and the company grew.

By 1978, Arabi Sling & Rigging was beginning to push beyond the confines of the Flores family’s overcrowded garage. A move needed to be made and the company found a new home when it opened for business at 6609 N. Robertson. This cavernous space was a far cry from the tiny garage and it was clear that Arabi Sling & Rigging had arrived. However, by 1985, the once-tiny company had outgrown that warehouse space and a second, connected building was added. The added structure brought the company’s workspace to nearly 9000 square feet. During this time the business continued to grow and the addition of a round sling machine kept Arabi Sling

Weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Arabi Sling and Rigging was finally able to begin sorting through the mess left behind from the storm.

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& Rigging moving forward and continuing to diversify the offerings it provided to its clientele.

When Louis H. Flores Jr. died in June of 2001, his wife Maxine and his children who had originally helped out in the old garage stepped forward to assume the reins of the company. Today, Louis’ son Louis H. Flores III is the company’s President, his daughter Nancy Guy is the Vice President and another daughter Holly Donnelly is the company’s Secretary.

Having kept their family company moving forward into the new millennium, the folks at Arabi Sling & Rigging had every reason to feel proud and to be optimistic about the future. But, like most of their neighbors, they didn’t know how badly they’d need both those personality traits in the days ahead of them. While residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are used to enduring the arrival of hurricane season, 2005 proved to be far more challenging than anyone could ever imagine.

On Tuesday, August 23 The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida reported a tropical storm system. The next day the storm’s winds reached 40 miles an hour and it was given the name Katrina. By Thursday, it had nearly doubled its velocity and Katrina was a classified a hurricane. After coming ashore on the southeastern coast of Florida, the storm moved into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico where it picked up strength. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency.

By the early morning of Saturday, August 27 Katrina had become a Category 3 hurricane with winds that reached 115 miles an hour. “It was certainly very strong and also very large,” remembers Chris Landsea, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who flew into the hurricane to take readings of the storm. “When we were flying into it Saturday, its circulation covered the entire Gulf of Mexico.”

While many folks packed and left immediately, many others stayed behind. Some refused to leave for economic reasons, some were stranded without means of transportation to leave, while others chose to stay with their homes and possessions - feeling the threat of damage or loss to their property was worse than the threat of harm to themselves.

Nancy Guy and her family evacuated to Lake Charles. When they left they had no idea that they’d be gone for months on end, and a second storm – Hurricane Rita –

This is the line to get into Wal-Mart a few days after Katrina

A deep layer of mud and debris was left after the storm.

While Arabi Sling and Rigging’s building was structurally sound, the interior was ruined and little, if anything, was salvageable.

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( would hit the gulf before Guy and her family would be allowed to return to New Orleans.

Holly Donnelly’s husband was out of country and she was at home with three high school and college-age kids. Like many people in her neighborhood, they had stayed until the last minute. “My neighbor called at six in the morning and said she was going to leave. We had some stuff packed, and when the boys got up we left. It was around noon on Sunday.” On the way out of town, Donnelly also picked up her 95-year-old aunt who was living in the same neighborhood.

By Sunday, August 28, Katrina’s winds were rotating near 150 miles an hour. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an evacuation notice and tens of thousands of residents left the city, assuming they’d be back in a few days once the winds died and the skies cleared. By late Sunday evening, thousands of residents who could

not or would not evacuate, sought shelter in the Louisiana Superdome.

Many Americans went to bed on Sunday night assured that all would be relatively well in the Crescent City. The worst of the storm was projected to miss the city - and it did; first making landfall in Plaquemines Parish, but then bouncing past New Orleans to Slidell, Louisiana to the northeast. The worst of the storm slammed into Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, almost completely destroying both cities.

For New Orleans, what came next wasn’t a natural disaster, it was a man-made disaster. While studies at Louisiana State University predicted flooding in New Orleans, LSU’s storm-surge models assumed that the city’s defenses would remain intact, buffering it from the worst of the storm. Following this storm, flood researchers have suggested that as many as

nancy Guy: “you live somewhere your whole life and you know everyone around you and everything around you. you’re established somewhere and then someone pulls the rug out from under you.”

Nancy Guy, Louis Flores III and Holly Donnelly stand with the Arabi Team in front of their newly restored building.

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nancy Guy: “you live somewhere your whole life and you know everyone around you and everything around you. you’re established somewhere and then someone pulls the rug out from under you.”

30 breaches occurred in the levees on Monday, August 29, 2005.

By dawn the west side of the MR-GO levee in St. Bernard Parish began to crumble. When a surge of water reached the Industrial Canal at 6:50 A.M. it broke up and spilled over the levees and floodwalls on both sides, flooding into the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish. In less than an hour, the I-wall and levee on the east side of the southern end of the Industrial Canal breached, sending a catastrophic wave of water into the Lower 9th Ward; flattening houses, tossing cars and killing people as it swept into neighborhoods in Arabi and the rest of St. Bernard Parish.

“Katrina was so bad the government wouldn’t let us back in. It was like a Third World country. There was no electricity. You couldn’t even hear birds chirping,” explains Guy through a sadness that is still palpable in her voice six years after the storm. “Personally, myself, I couldn’t believe it. When you saw it on TV you didn’t know how bad it was.”

Donnelly, her family and her aunt were staying with relatives in Baton Rouge when they saw the first images of the devastation on television. “Everybody was worried about the little things they’d lost. At the last minute

before we left, my daughter had picked up a box of pictures off the wall.”

While the family’s homes and the business remained under water, they were all forced to keep their lives going as best they could. Guy’s husband worked for an oil company that kept their people working and provided transportation and assistance to their employees after the flood. Donnelly’s husband worked for a phone company. “My husband was going back and forth from Baton rouge,” she explains, “but you still couldn’t go through the neighborhoods. You couldn’t just go in and out.”

Nancy Guy’s family eventually settled into a trailer on a friend’s property as they began the clean-up process on their home and business. Holly and her family and aunt moved from Baton Rouge to a friend’s house for one month before buying a new place to call home while they began to sift through what Katrina had left behind.

“It was like there had been a whirlpool in our house,” remembers Guy about seeing their home for the first time after the storm. A harrowing measure of what the house had gone through came with the discovery that the fall from a piano (the part that covers the keys) in their first floor living room had come to rest on the second floor at the opposite end of the house.

In addition to the water wreckage, the flood water itself was filled with other hazards. “It was a lot of water and a lot of chemicals too,” explains Guy. “Everybody’s gasoline spilled out of their garage; everybody’s cleaning chemicals from beneath their sink was added to the mix.” Donnelly’s home - near a refinery - had also been hit by more than just a wave of water. “Down by me is where the oil came in…. The oil went all over our area.”

When Donnelly first inspected her home she was shocked. “When we went into the house there was a foot of mud and water in the whole house – like paving cement before it gets hard,” she remembers. Coming back to such devastation was an overwhelming prospect for all of New Orleans’ flood victims, but Guy and Donnelly both found strength in caring for those closest to them. “You start at the front door and you scoop and you wheelbarrow and you work it out,” explains Donnelly. “Thankfully, I still had my family with me. We had to deal with it.”

Louis and his family went from a 5000 plus square ft home to a 1900 square ft home. His children were almost 7, 5 & 3 years old. Louis states, “Getting the kids back in school was a top priority. Children have even a harder time understanding what is happening.”

Along with trying to clean and renovate their homes, there was still a lot of work to be done to get Arabi Sling & Rigging back on its feet. All of their employees were scattered in different parts of the country and they had also lost their homes. Most employees were from St. Bernard Parish. Only some of the employees were able to make it back to work at Arabi Sling and they are still with them today. “We are grateful for them,” Donnelly said.

A shortage in manpower was not the only hurdle in getting the business up and running again, “Anything you needed was not easy to come by because everyone was in the same situation.” Donnelly notes, “Even big chain stores like Wal-Mart had limited opening hours because of limited staff as well as limited items on the shelf. Most of the time, to get something you needed, you had to wait in a long line - in the heat. If you had a list of five things to do in a day, you might get two or three partially done.” In this environment of need vs. shortage, Arabi Sling and Rigging realized they needed to keep their customers supplied. Although it was very hard with only a handful of employees, the few they had were dedicated and worked extremely long hours to support their customers and bring the business back.

While the Flores extended family began the clean-up process, they weren’t left to fend for themselves. Offers from long-time clients and friends in the business found the

Louis III with his wife, Trudy, and children: Louis IV (oldest), Madeline (oldest daughter) and Margo.

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( Holly Donnelly: “there are so many stories and each person had so much to deal with on a personal level as well as get back to work and earn a living for your family. you cried a lot and laughed when you could. you were not alone with what you were dealing with.”

company temporarily relocating to a different warehouse facility. The move was made possible when another company sent trucks, equipment and drivers to help the Arabi Sling and Rigging as they recovered from the disaster. As Guy recalls “We tried to set things up so we could at least function - even at a low level.”

What followed was months of hard work to make homes livable and make the company vital again. In addition to the water and mud, the rebuilding process involved a jungle of red tape and exacerbating creditors and insurance companies that Guy describes simply as a nightmare. “I would be on the phone daily. I was like ‘Can you understand the situation? Have you watched the TV?’”

However, along the way, joyous discoveries buoyed spirits and gave the entire family hope that all had not been lost to the storm. “My little girl had made a paper sign that says ‘God protects his people,’” remembers Guy through another surge of emotions. “That paper was miraculously still there right where we left it.” Donnelly was convinced that the pictures her daughter had grabbed before the evacuation were the only keepsakes she would still have. “Everybody has stories of weird things that happened,” she recalls. “I had this cabinet that all the pictures of my babies were in. Because it was so well made it floated! There was stuff in that cabinet that was still dry!”

Nancy Guy and her family were eventually able to buy a new home and Holly Donnelly’s recently married son is living in their re-built house while her aunt and mother are still living with her at the place they bought after returning for the clean up. Arabi Sling & Rigging is back in business in the same location where Louis H. Flores Jr. and Maxine Flores had achieved some of the company’s greatest successes.

A visit to the company’s web site finds Arabi’ to be a diverse supplier, offering a wide variety of slings, nets, tiedowns and wire rope as well as specialty equipment for marine projects. Among recent clients, the company provided support for the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an Academy Award winning film that was shot in New Orleans. The movie ends with the rising waters Hurricane Katrina, but, for the family of Louis H. Flores Jr. and the company he founded, life goes on. “You just keep trying,” offers Guy. “You live somewhere your whole life and you know everyone around you and everything around you. You’re established somewhere and then someone pulls the rug out from under you.” Asked when she first felt that things were back to normal, she laughed saying “We’re still trying to get there. It’s like we started all over again.” y

Left to Right, Holly Donnelly with her family: son, Travis Donnelly with his wife Vita; Holly Donnelly; daughter, Emily Donnelly; Donnelly’s husband, Dean; son, Dustin Donnelly with his wife, Abby.

Nancy, her husband Wayne, younger daughter Meridith, and Mary

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Sheldon Adelson, billionaire businessman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., had a dream, and it went well beyond the Las Vegas Sands. His dream took him out of the Nevada desert and into the bustling city of Singapore, halfway around the world. He wanted to build not only the largest casino in the world, but one whose architecture would stop people in their tracks. And that’s exactly what he did, because what was built was a masterpiece that includes one of the largest cantilevers in the world!

THE PARK IN THE SKYWithout a doubt, the most incredible feat of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel is the Sands SkyPark,

which is literally a massive park at the height of 200 meters, on top of three hotel towers covering 12,400 meters with a maximum width of 40 meters.

According to Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects, the concept for the SkyPark came about through a space issue and consequential solution. Once the footprint of the building was laid out on site, the com-plex still lacked the space required for recreational facilities like swimming pools, gardens and jogging paths. Hence Safdie’s the idea of lifting up the entire recreation zone by creating a three-acre SkyPark.

While initially the Skypark was planned to be limited to the footprint offered by the three towers put together, after consultations with a feng shui expert, the design team decided to cantilever 66.5 metres of the park off the north tower of the casino-resort complex.

To put the SkyPark in perspective, the gigantic deck could house three football fields. With an over-all length of 340 meters, you could park 4 ½ A380 Jet Airplanes end to end atop the garden structure. The SkyPark took an enormous amount of skill to build and makes the hotel not only look unique, but provides a magnificent space that only a superbly skilled architect and construction crew could pull off.

The SkyPark masterpiece is decked out with lush landscaping that includes gardens, 250 trees, and

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The massive, eye-stunning Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Sands SkyPark

is more than 9 million square feet and cost $5.7 billion to develop.

The Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Sands

SkyPark turned out to be even better than

anyone could have imagined it would be.

Well, okay, maybe except for Sheldon Adelson

and Safdie Architects, who worked on the

project. One look at the architecture of the

building and it is clear to see that this was

a task of monumental proportion! It is one

that took a massive amount of resources,

ingenuity, and teamwork. Together they pulled

it off and gave the rest of the world something

to talk about for years to come!


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650 plants. The larger trees have stainless steel cable at the root balls, tied to precast blocks, to keep them in place. The SkyPark has an observation deck that can accommodate hundreds at a time, an executive club lounge, a Chocolate Bar, and highly acclaimed restaurants.

SkyPark IngenuItyThe most complex and challenging aspect of building the Marina Bay Sands Hotel was that of the SkyPark. Architects were faced with numerous challenges when they set out to design and build this magnificent structure.

Perhaps their toughest obstacle was determining how to hoist the massive 7000-ton structure from the ground to its new elevation of 200 meters above the city. To accomplish this impressive task, the team employed a computer-controlled lifting device, which consisted of a series of strand jacks, which were mounted on giant temporary lifting gantries. The precision lifting system hoisted the heavy steel structure into place.

Strand jacks have been used in the past to hoist bridge structures into place, erect oilrigs, and con-struct power stations. However, the SkyPark project was the first strand jack lift of this magnitude. The strand jack system incorporates a series of cables and hydraulic cylinders to raise the structure incrementally. The process is completed by expanding the hydraulic cylinders, clamping the load, releasing the trailing end, contracting the cylinders, and then clamping the trailing end prior to start-ing the process over again.

To ensure there were no issues with the lift, the entire structure was pre-assembled offsite to confirm the fit of the 14 individual mating components. The large bridge assembly and cantilever portion of the SkyPark were pre-assembled at the base of the Marina Bay Sands towers to eliminate as much “sky-high” assembly as possible. Each lift would take as long as 24 hours to complete from start to finish. The entire lifting process would take 3 months considering the time to hoist the entire structure, the hull cladding, an enormous swimming pool, the trees, and other building accessories.

The second hurdle with a project of this magnitude was dealing with the influence of the wind. When handling a large structure at these high elevations, the affect of the wind would be substantially magnified. To control the giant structure as it was hoisted, the construction team utilized a system of cables to reduce the swinging during the lifting process. The team would monitor the wind condi-tions and speed prior to the initiation of each lift.

Architects for the SkyPark development focused on the effect of the wind when designing the project. In consideration of guest comfort, the engineering team conducted a series of wind tunnel tests to ascertain the effect of wind pressure on the overall structure. The data collected from the tests led to a façade, which was designed in such a way that it would reduce the impact of the wind.

The SkyPark Hull cladding consists of composite aluminum paneling on Aluminum extrusions/runners. There are approximately 2 million pieces of various fix-ings, i.e., s/s rivets, screws, bolts and nuts in the SkyPark Hull cladding system, which has an area of 14,500 m2, and this equates to 9456 panels. The length of aluminum extrusions used is 62,500 meters (62km), and the esti-mated weight of the Hull cladding system is 350 tons.

uP In the aIrThe numbers involved in what it took to build

the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Sands SkyPark are an accountants dream, coming in at a cool $5.7 bil-lion. The massive, eye-stunning hotel is over 9 mil-lion square feet. So just what does that amount of space include? The question, in the case of this hotel, is what doesn’t it include!

The Marina Bay Sands Hotel is made up of three sloping towers that have straight legs. The legs each con-nect at level 23 so that they form into a single building. There was a lot of thought that went into every details of how this building was going to be constructed, with the Tower 1 slope as steep as 26 degrees. Because of the complexities that went into the design of this hotel, it is considered to be one of the most complex hotels that have been built to date.

Each day after the hotel officially opened in June 2010, the visitor estimates were at about 25,000 per day. And not everyone that visits is pulling up a bed in one of the hotels 2,561 rooms. Many people who live right in Singapore are reported to visit regularly, paying a monthly fee for use of the SkyPark.

Within the hotel, visitors will find everything they need for a great time, regardless of what that may include.

Perhaps their toughest obstacle was determining how to hoist the massive 7000-ton structure from the ground

to its new elevation of 200 meters above the city.

during the construction phase of the hotel, the crew set a record by building a new floor every

four days, which is the fastest ever for such a large project in Singapore. • One of the main SkyPark

attractions is the massive 150-meter swimming pool, which is the largest elevated outdoor

swimming pool in the world. swimmers enjoy a spectacular view of the city as they swim along

the 150-meter long infinity edge. Combined, the 3 swimming pools contain 1.424 million liters of

water and contain 254,000 tiles.


The SkyPark is a cantilever that sits atop the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. It is a tropical oasis that is longer than the Eiffel Tower and big enough to park 4.5 jumbo jets in it.

The SkyPark is 200 meters in the air and has a lush landscaping, infinity pool, lounge, restaurants, observation deck, etc.

The infinity pool is the largest outdoor pool at such a height.

From the SkyPark, visitors can get a 360 degree view of the Singapore skyline.

To see the SkyPark is to have an appreciation for the amount of work and skill that went into successfully completing such a challenging project. Not only is it unique, but it is amazing. and the views are unforgettable, even from the hotel rooms, where people will get views of the city skyline, as well as the south China sea. Quite possibly, this is a place that when people check in, they may not want to leave.

The Marina Bay Sands Hotel consists of three unique hotel towers. It has 2,561 rooms and suites, 55 floors, and 18 different types of room clubs, and a 4,000-seat theater. There are also 230 luxury suites, which come with their own butler service and give guests access to the VIP areas.

The hotel has sloping towers and straight legs, with a slope as steep as 26 degrees.

It is considered one of the most complex hotels ever built. During construction, a new hotel floor was built every four days.

It is the biggest hotel in Singapore and features the largest ballroom in South East Asia. It includes a variety of top-notch restaurants, shopping, entertainment outlets, and a casino with over 1,000 gaming tables and 1,400 slot machines. Meeting and expo spaces can accommodate up to 10,000 people. Shopping on site includes over 300 retail stores, including top luxury names.

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lincoln Hoist is introducing improved new models that include RFID tags,

serialization, and more visible markings. These benefits will be made available to customers with no change in prices.

Regular inspection by a qualified individual is one of the best ways to prevent accidents using this, or most any other tool used for lifting or pulling heavy loads. RFID tags help reduce the paperwork burden of performing and maintaining those inspection records. Lincoln Hoist’s newest improve-ment embeds a small 8mm RFID chip directly into the main hoist housing to facilitate the task. In addition, Lincoln Hoist has reached

an agreement with Infochip systems to provide free inspection, certification and tracking software**. This limited version (for Lincoln Hoist products only) of the widely used Infochip system is intended to offer inspection and certification report functions to smaller companies. According to Lincoln president Dave Hallen, “Large customers are requesting the RFID tags more and more. They have already discovered the benefits of using RFID software systems to keep track of fixed assets and to record inspection and certification information. RFID technology enables customers to quickly call up specific hoist informa-tion by reading the data embedded in the chip. They can then see pre-loaded information regarding inspection points, evaluate and record the various attributes, create notes, and generate inspection reports or certificates.

Enhancements planned for the future include the ability to have parts dia-grams immediately available for quick call-out of correct repair part numbers. According to Hallen “It’s important to understand that no other changes are being made to our tried and tested products. All of the internal workings are identical to (and interchangeable with) our older hoists. If you liked the tools that we’ve built for the past 60 plus years, you will like these. You just get new added functionality at no cost.”** While the software license is free, InfoChip software is web based (no software to install) and so does require a modest fee for setting up each new customer. To learn more about Lincoln Hoist and RFID, please visit their website: www.lincolnhoist.com y

Cortland, Anacortes, Washington, recently produced the world’s largest 12-strand rope for a European client, constructed on the giant 12 strand braiding machine us-ing Cortland’s patented Plasma® synthetic fibre. This rope will be used to create an enormous industrial lifting sling. This unique rope was created from more than 52,000 individual Plasma® strands using Cortland’s patented 12×12® braiding technique. This exclusive braid-ing process combines individual 12-braid-ed ropes into a finished 12-strand rope of exceptional strength and flexibility. The finished size of this particular rope is 176mm with a minimum tensile strength of 1845MT (Metric Tonnes).

Despite the exceptional size, this rope is 7 to 8 times lighter than a comparable steel rope, yet is much easier to handle and splice. The rope will be used in a grommet configuration with an MBL ex-ceeding 3044MT for heavy lift operations.Cortland provides worldwide experience in creating lightweight rope, slings, cables and umbilicals to the oil and gas, heavy marine, subsea, ROV, seismic, defense and medical markets. Cortland is part of actu-ant Corporation (NYSE: ATU), a diversi-fied industrial company with operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.cortlandcompany.com. y

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Brainchild of the Bridge-in-a-Backpack concept and AEWC director Habib Dagher was presented with the American Society of Civil Engineers Charles Pankow Award for innovation.

The Bridge-in-a-Backpack won in the category for innovation after a unanimous vote from a national review committee. The Pankow award was established by the American Society of Civil Engineers to rec-ognize collaboration in innovative design, materials used, and construction-related re-search and development that transfers into a practical application in the real world.

The Bridge-in-a-Backpack earned its name from the materials that make up the structural spine of the bridge. It’s not a whole bridge in one bag — rather, it’s the materials for one arch of a bridge that fit into a hockey equipment-size duffel bag. The fiber-reinforced polymer (composite) tubes are relatively light and portable, and could be transported to the construction site in this manner.

During the construction phase, these composite tubes, which typically measure 12 inches in diameter, are inflated and formed into arches. Using a vacuum pump, the tubes are treated with an epoxy resin, causing them to stiffen into shape; installed several feet apart; and filled with concrete. Covered with a composite deck form topped with concrete and compacted soil, the tubes can support a standard gravel-and-asphalt roadway.

Pioneering A New Building Technology

After nearly a decade of working to develop its Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology, Advanced Infrastructure Technologies and the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has received one of the highest honors in the engineering industry.

Royal River Bridge, Maine DOT

(bottom left) Filling the arches is equally simple and fast. • (bottom right) Placement of the Lightweight Arches is simple and can be done in one day, by hand or with the aid of a small boom.


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The first-ever structure completed using this technology was the Neal Bridge in Pittsfield, Maine. Completed in the fall of 2008 and replacing a 70-year-old structure, the 34-foot-long, two-lane bridge is comprised of 23 of these arches. A corrugated, fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composite decking was installed on top; the head walls were constructed with a FRP sheet pile system. Total cost of the

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“WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING THAT’S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A BRIDGE ESSENTIALLY FROM A BACKpACK, IT CHANGES THE WAY WE BUILD BRIDGES.” HABIB DAGHER, AEWC DIRECTOR

bridge was roughly $600,000 — comparable to the cost of a precast bridge.

The product is achieving rapid success, according to Dagher, who said it is currently being used in seven bridges in Maine. He also said that states such as Massachusetts and New Hampshire, among others, will employ the technology in bridge projects slated for this summer. Furthermore, he

said, talks are under way in countries as far away as Saudi Arabia and Russia, where there is an interest in using it.

“This award reinforces the positive response we received from the marketplace for our current bridge systems. Focusing on sustainable infrastructure, our hybrid composite-concrete bridge technology can save money, reduce fabrication timelines, lessen transportation costs, accelerate bridge construction, and dramatically reduce lifetime maintenance costs. In the field this technology has proven to be a highly custom-izable, safe, cost competitive bridge system. We thank ASCE for recognizing our technol-ogy with this prestigious award,” said Barry Raeburn, Executive Vice President of AIT.

With over 45,000 structurally deficient bridges in the U.S. alone, look for the Bridge-in-a-Backpack system to gain popu-larity in the coming years. y

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The Crosby Group has recently unveiled their “User’s Guide for Lifting” for Apple ipad. This ipad application takes the infor-mation available in their printed reference guides to a new level. Available for download on the App Store for $9.99.

LoosCo recently announced their new LoosCo Stretch Calculator, the calculator is designed to assist the wire rope and aircraft cable professional in the field. The Stretch Calculator application provides real time wire rope and aircraft cable elastic stretch

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For over 10 years, Drew Merschat has been in the rigging business and over the course of time he encountered many of these instances where he needed accurate resources and references. Merschat explains he was constantly being asked for rigging cards, hardhat stickers or posters that reference rigging capacities. These repeated requests gave way to a great idea: “Why not condense this information into one convenient application for your cell phone? It just made sense.”

RigIT is a newly released smart phone application that allows you to easily and quickly

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According to Merschat, inventor of the RigIT application, “my main objective is to insure job sites are safe and workers are safe when it comes to the products they are using.” RigIT goes a long way towards making that task easy and accurate!

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The RigIT mobile app was developed to give instant access to all necessary rigging capacity chart information. Every chart includes the three basic hitches and their load capacities. This includes vertical, choke and basket hitches. Also included in the charts are screw pin shackles with working load limits and pin diameters.

To find out more information, go to the RigIT website: www.RigITapp.com or download the RigIT application directly onto your smart phone, avail-able on itunes application store.

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