When you think Daytona Beach, you think speed. So when the International Speedway Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: ISCA; OTC Bulletin Board: ISCB) ("ISC") moved forward with a plan to build a premier mixed-use entertainment destination across from its Daytona International Speedway, engineers needed a state-of-the-art storm water management plan to carry out its design in the most efficient way possible. ISC’s leading national developer Legacy Development turned to County Materials Corporation to supply its newly designed box culverts to get the conveyance job done fast and done right.
With over 300,000 square feet and a projected investment of approximately $120 - $150 million, the ISC’s high profile ONE DAYTONA development required a leading-edge concrete drainage solution for its storm water conveyance from one overflow control pond to another. The central engineering issue involved hydraulic design and material selection due to the terrain’s natural elevations. The available hydraulic grade forced the engineering team to look for pipe geometries that could fit this terrain.
To address these specifications, County Materials supplied a new type of box culvert to meet the hydraulic design demand. The performance of these single-pipe box culverts was a natural fit for ONE DAYTONA. Project engineers were drawn to using County Materials’ design since it no longer required the use of double 54-inch pipes, as would be the case with a standard culvert. The intuitive model allowed workers to overcome this engineering issue and provided a much cleaner installation. Planners commented County Materials’ box culverts streamlined the large-scale project. According to the lead project engineer, this conveyance project presented “[an] engineering issue we could overcome using County Materials’ box culverts. [It was] much easier and cleaner to install one pipe as opposed to two. [It] made the project more efficient.”
County Materials’ Astatula, Florida location began manufacturing these box culverts this year to expand their product line for storm water management. The four-sided culverts were designed to provide an alternative to installations where circular or elliptical concrete pipes cannot provide adequate flow capacity. For the ONE DAYTONA development, the company manufactured 153 sections of 6 ft. by 5 ft. precast concrete boxes. Round pipes could not have been installed with the aforementioned limitations and still meet the required hydraulic conductivity therefore County Materials’ culverts provided the perfect solution. While the ONE DAYTONA project utilized the box culverts for storm water conveyance, additional application options include highway and railroad culverts, short span highway bridges, livestock, pedestrian or golf cart under crossings, utility tunnels, groundwater recharge systems, and jacked or tunneled installations.
In the case of the large scale ONE DAYTONA project, the practical application of single-pipe box culverts led engineers to County Materials’ solution. Always at the forefront of concrete product technology, County Materials Corporation’s design met the needs of an advanced hydraulic design challenge to keep the ISC’s development right on track.
