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Cal Electro, Inc.

The jobs that are not mainly electrical, carried by the same crews.

Cranes, towers and structures, by the same crews

Capability

The specialty record is what self-performing looks like when the job is not mainly electrical: gantry crane rehabilitation at Shasta Dam and crane modifications at Folsom for the Bureau of Reclamation, a 120-foot communications tower and vault on Colby Mountain for the CHP, the Sacramento Tower Bridge, a college gas line, and wastewater treatment improvements at Biggs.

Drilling is self-performed, piers and footings as well as horizontal directional drilling, and medium voltage cable splicing is NCSCB certified. Load testing a 140 ton crane with water weights is the kind of scope that makes these jobs specialty rather than electrical, and they carry structural, mechanical and civil work alongside the electrical under one contract and one schedule.

Drilling, foundations, structural steel and mechanical work are our own crews. The tower on Colby Mountain included the foundations, a generator building, a photovoltaic field and the propane system.

Mountaintop and remote sites
Tower and radar sites with haul, weather and generation constraints.
Dam and powerhouse work
Crane and controls work inside operating Reclamation and DWR facilities.
Why we self-perform
9Projects published in full
$2,089,000Largest published contract

The record

Every specialty construction contract published in full, newest first.

Open a title for the write-up, the photographs and the contract detail.

Specialty Construction: 9 contracts, newest first, with owner, year and published contract amount.
ProjectOwnerYearContract
CHP2015$2,089,000
A crane lifting steel members beside a tall steel lookout tower on a mountain summit
A crane lifting steel members beside a tall steel lookout tower on a mountain summitA concrete pump boom extended over a foundation excavation on a wooded mountaintop at duskA large formed foundation with anchor bolts set, and a steel lookout tower standing behindA heavy steel platform on splayed legs standing on a mountaintop, with forested ridges beyondA steel equipment platform and lookout tower above a formed concrete vault under constructionA freshly poured concrete slab within timber formwork on a mountaintop construction siteCommunications towers and an equipment building on a wooded mountaintop, with a service truck alongsideA steel lattice communications tower with two microwave dishes and antenna arrays against a clear sky

Cal Electro transported, erected and installed an owner-furnished 120-foot tower, self-supporting, four-legged and pre-manufactured, moving it from West Sacramento to the Colby Mountain site. Cal Electro also built the foundations, a separate generator building with emergency backup generator, a photovoltaic panel field, a propane fuel system and the electrical utilities.

  • Electrical
  • Civil
  • Structural

Cal Electro delivered Communications Towers & Vault, Colby Mountain for CHP in Forest Ranch, Tehama County, California in 2015, a $2,089,000 contract.

City of Biggs2014$1,839,000
A crew placing concrete into a formed trench alongside a metal building
A crew placing concrete into a formed trench alongside a metal buildingA concrete truck discharging down its chute to a crew working in a trench beside a buildingA long trench with reinforcing steel and conduit laid in, running along the side of a buildingA white pipe laid along the bottom of a long open trench across a treatment plant siteAn excavator loading a dump truck beside an open excavation at a wastewater treatment plant

Cal Electro built the plant improvements: new influent piping and manholes, a spiral mechanical screen, a new concrete sewer influent wet well, an influent pump distribution system, field piping, valves, a flow meter and a new influent sampler, tied into the existing gravity and force main system. Electrical work covered services for the new equipment, a SCADA system and its telemetry, and a backup generator. The contract also included a manual bar screen with associated piping modifications, replacement of field valves across the facility, repair or replacement of a vertical pump, and fencing and gates.

Cal Electro delivered Phase 1 Wastewater Treatment Improvement Project, Biggs for City of Biggs in California in 2014, a $1,839,000 contract.

Oregon Air Guard2013$51,160

Cal Electro designed and installed new lightning protection for the Oregon Air Guard.

Cal Electro delivered Oregon Air Guard Lightning Protection in 2013, a $51,160 contract.

Shasta College2011
Five workers in high-visibility vests laying yellow gas pipe in an open trench on a campus lawn
Five workers in high-visibility vests laying yellow gas pipe in an open trench on a campus lawnTwo workers at a fusion machine beside stacked lengths of yellow gas pipe under oak treesA worker digging by hand beside a horizontal directional drilling rig in a parking lotA yellow horizontal directional drilling rig positioned at the edge of a roadwayYellow gas pipe runs and a tee fitting laid in a red-earth trench

Cal Electro installed a gas line at Shasta College, using horizontal directional drilling.

Cal Electro delivered Shasta College Gas Line in 2011.

USBR2003$1,023,500
A concrete-clad gantry crane tower on a dam crest with a boom truck parked beside it
A concrete-clad gantry crane tower on a dam crest with a boom truck parked beside itA large gantry crane standing on a dam crest at dusk, captioned 140 ton Folsom Dam Gantry CraneA boom truck with outriggers deployed underneath the legs of a gantry craneTwo frames showing a large steel crane component being rolled and lowered by mobile craneWorkers placing formwork and reinforcing steel for a crane rail, with an excavator working below

Cal Electro modified three cranes, installing new load cells, VFDs, festoon systems, wire rope, rail foundation, operator controls and a 140-ton trolley. The work included load testing the 140-ton crane with water weights on Folsom Dam Boulevard.

Cal Electro delivered Folsom Cranes for USBR in California in 2003, a $1,023,500 contract.

USBR2003$996,000

Cal Electro rehabilitated a 125-ton gantry crane at Shasta Dam, installing new VSDs, an engine generator, an automatic rope re-winder, operator controls, wire rope, and a fuel tank and platform.

  • Government-furnished equipment

Cal Electro delivered Shasta Crane for USBR in 2003, a $996,000 contract.

El Dorado Irrigation District2002$690,000
A small concrete powerhouse beside a river with an outdoor switch structure behind it
A small concrete powerhouse beside a river with an outdoor switch structure behind itScaffolding and staging against the concrete wall of a powerhouse in a steep river canyonAerial view of a powerhouse surrounded by brown floodwater, captioned EID Power House The Flood 1975

Cal Electro installed flood protection at the power house: removing windows, placing and grout-injecting concrete walls, demolishing existing equipment and walls, fitting water-tight doors, and carrying out erosion control outside the building.

Cal Electro delivered EID Power House for El Dorado Irrigation District in 2002, a $690,000 contract.

DWR2001$1,600,000

Cal Electro installed the crane controls at the Oroville power house for the Department of Water Resources.

Cal Electro delivered Oroville Power House for DWR in California in 2001, a $1,600,000 contract.

City of Sacramento1998$385,000
The Sacramento Tower Bridge seen from the river, with its two lift towers and the span lowered
The Sacramento Tower Bridge seen from the river, with its two lift towers and the span loweredThe Sacramento Tower Bridge seen head-on from the roadway, with traffic crossing

Cal Electro installed the crane controls on the Tower Bridge for the California Department of Transportation.

Cal Electro delivered Sacramento Tower Bridge for City of Sacramento in California in 1998, a $385,000 contract.

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