Don Marquis Substation

Vaughn Industries Substation Division was awarded a new blanket contract with AEP to replace 345,000 and 765,000 volt transformers and installation of new equipment associated with them.

Don Marquis substation is located in Piketon Ohio. Don Marquis is a 765,000 volt station that will have 4 new transformers that drop voltage down to 345,000 volts and transition down a hill to the 345kv substation located in the same yard.

Some of the equipment is new to AEP and to Vaughn Industries.

We mobilized on 11/14/11. The job should last until the end of 2012.

Kyle Parsell is our lead foreman on the project with a second foreman, Brandon Margraf heading up most of the crew out in the yard. We found that having anywhere from a 10 man crew to an 18 man crew it works better having 2 foreman on site. This helps insure we maintain our safety and quality workmanship.

Ohio Union at The Ohio State University

The Ohio Union at The Ohio State University project started as a plan/specification bid project, with over 700 Bulletins, 2000 RFIs, and 250 fully executed Change Orders. This project became a design assist project with Post and Beam Construction, Brick and Stone Veneer with Glass Accents, Multi-Functional Facility, with multiple food service vendors and performance venues.

Unique Electrical Features

• 2-4000 amp double ended Switchgear lineups that extend over eighty feet each.
• A three Story Great Hall which links the entire building together is accented with three custom made chandeliers and twelve custom made wall sconces that each wear the legendary Ohio State “Block O”.
• The Performance Hall has one of a kind custom made chandeliers and wall scones
• that are accented with multicolored glass beads.
• The Conference Theatre has custom made Block O’s that illuminate when the lights go down.
• Woody’s Pub, an Ohio themed pub that only serves Ohio made beers and wines is loaded with Tiffany stained glass custom made Woody’s logo and Block O pendent hung lights, that are dimmable to set the mood.
• The Archie Griffin Grand Ball room is fitted with three enormous custom made Block O Chandeliers that each includes over 600 crystal bead drops and 120 aluminum rods that are filled with fiber optic strands that illuminate
• the crystal tips. The crystal and rods were individually hand installed.

Project Size

315,000 square feet off multi use areas.

Contract Value

Total Project Cost of $81 Million with an Electrical Contract of $12.3 Million.

Project Duration

Our work commenced in January of 2008 and was completed in January of 2010.

Percentage of Self-Performed Work

Vaughn Industries accounted for more than 40% of the entire projects workforce, with all but 5% being self-performed.

Wyandot Solar

Type of Construction

Build 10.01 MW (AC) Photovoltaic (PV) Facility with the following site work:

• Construct road ways and storage areas for facility
• Reclaim storage areas at end of project
• Seed and landscape entire facility
• Install direct buried posts for array racking
• Install racking to house PV modules
• Install PV Modules
• Install PV Inverters
• Install A/C medium voltage collector cable
• Install all D/C cabling for facility
• Install overhead distribution line from PV to facility to utility interconnection point

Project Size

80 acres of land consumed by the facility and construction area.

Contract Value

$4.4 million

Facility Features

• 12,736 posts driven by Vaughn Industries to serve as PV array foundations
• 3,184 aluminum racks installed by Vaughn Industries on posts to house PV Modules
• 159,200 PV Modules Installed by Vaughn Industries
• >1.2 million feet of PV array feeder cable installed by Vaughn Industries
• Approximately 135,500 feet of D/C feeder cable installed by Vaughn Industries
• Approximately 20,000 feet of A/C medium voltage cable installed by Vaughn Industries
• Approximately 5 miles of overhead distribution to connect PV facility to utility

Project Duration

From late October 2009 to late May 2010: 7 months total.

Percentage of Self-Performed Work

Vaughn Industries completed approximately 90% of all work involved.

Construction Opportunities

Several RFP’s were sent to various union and non-union companies for site work, fence, landscaping activities, and various other tasks for the project.  The following non-union companies were awarded various tasks for the project-Fremont Fence Company (fence work), Koehler Engineering (surveying services), Danner’s Towing & Recycling (dunnage refuse), Double K Sanitations (dunnage refuse), Kirby’s Sand and Gravel (trucking services and material supply), Machinery Movers (crane operations) and Shaferly Excavating (directional drilling services).