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OCTOBER 2011 Celebrating our 27th year of publication • Be sure to visit us online at www.worldfencenews.com Long-time Commerce City, Colorado commercial fence contractor Metro Fence Company, Inc. is well versed in the complexities of high secu- rity fence and barrier installa- tions, but a project at the FBI regional field office in Denver takes the cake. From its regional offices, investigates the FBI federal crimes ranging from terrorism to gang activity, which makes it critical that the perimeters of the locations be hardened to the maximum. Metro Fence Company Ornamental. Chain Link. Swing Gates. Slide Gates. Tube Mill. Privacy Panels. Color Fence & Framework. cepted for president Vernon Knorr notes that the Denver project involved installing approximately 2,500 lineal feet of Department of State anti-terrorist crash rated fence, along with numerous crash rated bollards, crash rated entrance/exit hydraulic wedge barrier systems and automated gate systems project site. According to Knorr, the project started off with 15% drawings in Sep- tember of 2007, 30% in May of 2008, 60% in December 2008 and, finally, 100% in March of 2009. Each of these milestones required numerous propos- als and re-quotations from many sup- pliers and conceptual revisions that changed often. Knorr estimates that they proposed and priced upwards of 40 to 50 designs before one was ac- cepted. "We entered into contract negotia- tions with Bovis Lend Lease of Nashville, Tenn. in April 2009 and came to final agreement to scope and Ornamental terms in mid-June of 2009," he said. "Contract items totaled approximately $1.3 million, and the project had a total duration of approximately 240 calendar days. The fence design was provided by architect Skidmore, Owens & Merrill LLP of Chicago." On site installation started in late August 2009. There were numer- ous delays to the start time due to the the Swing Gates throughout The main gate entrance and guard shack at the Denver regional office of the FBI. At right, a gate and gate operator typical of the high security installation. site preparation and multiple subcon- tractors that required several cranes to work around the structures on the tight, congested site. Privacy The cranes and the need to get the vertical structures up and closed in be- fore winter weather impeded progress of site utilities installation and dirt work at our installation locations, Knorr said. "The rainy weather was also slowing everyone down by creat- ing very muddy conditions and the need to pressure wash each and every truck leaving the site. Security of this site was extremely high. Every person who required access had to fill out nu- Slide Gates www.ironworldfencing.com 1-888-487-3448 INSIDE THIS ISSUE OF WORLD FENCE NEWS Fencer's Field Report • Creating a fence franchise company model, by Tom Luby Tackling the topic of backing up data, part 1, by Jim Lucci Through the years with WFN • Fence ordinances from around the country 2 LOCATIONS: Overcoming complex array of issues critical to success of FBI regional field office security fence installation HOWARD COUNTY MD. BRISTOL IN. followed by fingerprint submission and a full back- ground check that could take days to complete," he said. "Everyone entering this site, in- cluding delivery truck drivers, concrete truck drivers and rental equipment companies, had to go through this process. Once these background checks passed, deliveries had to be scheduled two to three days in advance. merous release forms, and this was "Once on site, at the entry gates the delivery vehicles were physically inspected be- fore being allowed on site with a badged employee driving," he noted. The design that was ac- this anti-terrorist fence has very specific installa- tion parameters due to the De- partment of State certification criteria. No deviation of ap- proved design specifications are allowed if a crash rating is to be maintained. This includes everything from post installation, dead-man loca- tions, post depth, panel assembly, cable installation, a 1/4" tolerance for the entire fence line installation, rebar type and size and mix design of the concrete. Tube Mill These rigid installation require- ments led to many conflicts with un- derground utility systems, Knorr said. "These systems had to be installed to miss our fence post locations or moved to miss our post locations. It is not very common that the fence takes pri- ority over all other systems, continued on page 68 METRO FENCE CO. PHOTOS