Houston Structures Inc., a member of Ulven Companies, has successfully completed a contract from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide tainter gate wire rope assembly replacements for 11 dams in Oklahoma and Kansas. The USD 2.96 million contract, awarded through the Corps of Engineers’ Tulsa District, was fully funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Ten of the dams included in the contract are in Oklahoma, with one located in Kansas; some of the dams include hydroelectric power plants. As per the contract, 776 cable assemblies, approximately 55,000ft of stainless steel wire rope and almost 1550 sockets were produced to fulfill the needs of the rehabilitated tainter gates. Houston Structures Inc., a company that is also a member of the Ulven Companies, oversaw project management, engineering and field verification for the project. All of the cast sockets for the project were provided by Ulven unit, Wolf Steel and were machined by Ulven Forging. The wire rope for the project was produced at Loos & Co. Inc., a manufacturer of a variety of wire, aircraft cable and wire rope for use in a range of applications. Pre-stretching, load testing and cable assembly was carried out by Cascade Rigging Inc who, in addition to assisting in fabrication of wire rope assemblies, also supplies wire rope, rigging and related hardware wholesale.
