WINNER - PAVING COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

FOrd blueoval battery park ring road

Location: 13700 West Michigan Ave
Concrete Contractor: Angelo Iafrate Construction Company
Concrete Supplier: Hercules Concrete, LLC
Prime Contractor: Walbridge
Project Owner: BlueOval

Ford Motor Company is constructing a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. This 1.8 million square-foot plant will be run by BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, a wholly-owned Ford subsidiary, and it is anticipated the plant will create approximately 1,700 jobs.

Angelo Iafrate Construction placed 41,800 cubic yards of concrete for the ring road surrounding the facility using Hercules portable Atlas batch plant. Utilizing ready-mix trucks as well as agitor trucks, the plant achieved up to 297 cubic yards per hour with placements exceeding 2,700 cubic yards in a single day.

Eight miles of concrete "ring road" circumnavigates the site. The ring road consists of two 12-foot-wide lanes, three-foot wide paved shoulders, and 10-inch-thick jointed concrete pavement. The ring road was fine graded with a Gomaco 9500 trimmer, and the mainline paving was placed with a Wirtgen TCM 180i stringless paver equipped with a Leica GPS system providing machine control.

The $2.5-billion-dollar facility plans an annual LFP battery production capacity of approximately 20 gigawatt hours. The batteries built at this facility will power Ford’s future electric vehicles, with production starting in 2026.