Week One- Fred Weber HQ and Concrete Pipe Plant

Fred Weber is a company that works all types of construction projects including mining and concrete products. They actually were the company that built the overpass and intersection at Manchester and 141 but the don’t do as many roads anymore.

On Monday, I went to the Fred Weber main offices and spent the entire day watching safety videos to get myself MSHA(Mine Safety and Health Administration) approved. 

On Tuesday, I went back to the Fred Weber offices and spent the first hour finishing up my safety videos and then spent most of the morning doing volumetric calculations with Glenn O’Bryan, the General manager at Fred Weber. He is also a civil engineer and he is really generous with his time and will answer any question about civil engineering. He then took me on a tour of the Bridgeton landfill that he used to manage and the other landfill near the Hollywood casino amphitheater that Fred Weber owned up until a couple years ago. He told me all about the problems and how everything worked in the quarry and landfill and then took me on a tour of the processing area for all rock that is pulled out of the quarry. 

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I spent my days at the Fred Weber Reinforced Concrete Plant because Glenn was out of town. I shadowed the quality control lady named Emily for all three days. In those three days I pretty much learned everything there is to know about concrete pipes and culverts. Although they are pretty simple devices it was interesting to learn about how things worked on the manufacturing line. I also got to talk with the manager of that plant who is a civil engineer. He approves the design and construction of everything they sell.