The waterfront location for the new Brannan Street Wharf public park located on the San Francisco Embarcadero Promenade between Pier 30-32 and Pier 38 has seen significant progress in the last few months.
Dutra Construction recently poured 1,800 cubic yards of concrete on the main wharf structural deck at the Brannan Street Wharf public park project. Two hundred truckloads of concrete performed the task at night in less than 12 hours. Photo courtesy of Dutra Construction
Published: April, 2013
The waterfront location for the new Brannan Street Wharf public park located on the San Francisco Embarcadero Promenade between Pier 30-32 and Pier 38 has seen significant progress in the last few months.
To date, Dutra Construction has already placed over 3,000 cubic yards of concrete to complete the main wharf structural deck. A recent deck pour was 1,800 cubic yards or 200 truckloads of concrete. To accomplish this huge pour, the northbound lane of the Embarcadero was closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, February 8 and had to be reopened by 8 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, February 9. After the road was closed, the Conco concrete pumps were then put in place, and Cemex concrete trucks started rolling in at 8:45 p.m. With a collective effort of the team, including the Port of San Francisco, the Embarcadero was swept clean and reopened an hour early the next morning. Additional work included a smaller 450 cubic yard deck pour in early March.
Located in the center of the emerging South Beach waterfront, the park will provide a lawn area, a waterside walkway with seating, a shade structure and a small-craft floating dock for kayaks and recreational water vessels. The wharf will be mostly flat, with the lawn contained in a raised planter about 18 inches in height and surrounded by a seat wall. The open site orients the wharf toward both the Bay and the adjacent neighborhood.
In order to turn this concrete deck into a park, Bauman Landscape will install a seat wall, fill, top soil and sod in the coming months. The park is expected to be open to the public in June.
