Randy Martin
1982 Coolidge High School Honors Graduate
1982-83 Lytle Texas Oilfield Roughneck/ Driller
1984 Oklahoma City Sales/Store Manager
1985-1988 Cooper Country Antiques ~ Shop Manager/ Mastercraftsman
1988-89 Ashton Contractors ~ Apprentice Carpenter (Heavy Highway)
 1989 Rio Salado Associates in Carpentry via Arizona Carpenters Union
1989-1994 JA Jones ~ Roosevelt Dam Reface, Roosevelt Lake Arizona
~ Journeyman Carpenter/ Safety Stewart
1995-96 TDC/ Hoffman Structures Journeyman Carpenter/ Assistant Superintendant
1997-2005 DPR Construction ~ Superintendant

Youngest Nominee for Superintendant of the Year for the State of Arizona
by the Contractors Association.

2002 - Present Rising M Enterprises and Carports

Randy has a background in various aspects of carpentry and all phases of commercial, industrial and residential construction. 

Randy is a graduate of Rio Salado Community College with an Associates Degree in Carpentry.  He retired from the Arizona Carpenters Union in 1994 and made the move into commercial / industrial construction. He began his career as an apprentice working for Ashton Contractors of Tucson AZ on heavy highway projects throughout the state of Arizona. 

Roosevelt Dam before

Roosevelt Dam after


Then he moved on to Roosevelt Dam as a journeyman and Safety Steward.   

Roosevelt Dam was originally construction from 1905 until 1911 to control the erratic flow of the Salt River and to harness the water for irrigation.  The dam turned the Arizona desert into land that could be farmed.  Once the world's tallest masonry dam, this structure is named after President Theodore Roosevelt, who was instrumental in approval of the Federal Reclamation Act  of 1902, and who dedicated thr original dam in March 1911. 

Roosevelt Dam is unique in the way it was originally constructed.  It was the world's largest "cyclopean-masonry" dam, a Greco-Roman style of building that uses huge, irregular blocks.  It is now covered by new concrete.  In 1996 a $430 million modification project was completed that raised the height of the dam to 357  feet and expanded the lake's storage capacity by 20% -- enough for 1 million more people.  This 7 7-foot increase offers six Valley cities 204,729 new acre-feet of water storage to the dam and, for the first time, provides SRP with substantial amounts of flood control and Safety of Dams storage space.  The dam has hydrogeneration capacity of 26,000 kW.  

Did you know?  Renovations at Roosevelt Dam over 1/2 million cubic yards of concrete, enough to pave a two-lane road from Phoenix to Tucson.  The quanity of reinforcing steel used in teh dam's renovation -- 6.7 million pounds -- would be 849 miles long if placed end to end.  (The distance between Phoenix and Denver).


The work on Roosevelt was once in a lifetime project although Randy was there for a few years.  It had many challenges for him and those of us at home worrying about him and his co-workers.  During this storm my mother was in the hospital and Randy didn't call and he didn't come home.  My mother called me and told me to turn on the news and there was the trailer park where we had our travel trailer he was staying in floating down the river leading to the lake. Finally in the wee hours of the morning he called from APS substation stating he was stranded at the lake and that he, Mike Wigness and Hank Sutulovich had been out saving people lives and most of the expensive and irreplaceable forms equipment. He was okay but I tell you I was scared. 


A challenging aspect of the modification project was designing a concrete overlay for the dam that would be compatible with the underlying masonry structure.  The Bureau of Reclamation chose a signle-curvature approach using conventional mass concrete palced in 10-feet high, 70 feet wide blocks, ranging in thickness from 10 to 50 feet.  The first concrete blcok was placed in September 1992 and the final block was placed June 28, 1995 raising the dam to 357 tall.  The new mass concrete blocks with vertical joints were placed as alternating odd-even cantilevers. Regular testing of cast concrete and concrete components were necessary.  Mass concrete compressive strengths average 800 pounds per square inch in 7 days based on 12x24" culinders, and 4,500 pounds per square inch in one year based on 12 inch cores.    They created a cable way that spanned across the dam and a huge container in order to get the concrete from the on site batch plant to the dam in time.  Many times they had to use ice with the water to slow down the concrete so they would have time to work it.  They came up with all sorts of never before thought of ideas on this job.  The job was bid with 7 deaths in the insurance rating and they were proud to complete the job with not one fatality.


See link for details of the flooding http://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/projects/rooseveltdam/rdhistory.html

Then he moved onto the groundbreaking at the microchip plant in Chandler Arizona, it wasn't long before he was Assistant Superintendent for Hoffman Construction through the conclusion of the beginning phases at a large microchip plant being built.   



DPR Construction then hired him as a superintendant to complete additional phases at the microchip plant. He was part of many awe inspiring projects for various customers.  Upon retiring from DPR in Phoenix Arizona in 2005 began his own business in the residential sector in Oklahoma below are a few photos of some of his projects while with DPR Construction Inc.  Randy was priviledged enough to have our son Randy II (1982-2005) work on the City of Phoenix Lab project with him as a subcontractor with TNT Concrete.  

A fathers' dream of course to see his son respect him enough to follow in his footsteps, especially those that leave lifetimes of footprints in the world.  
 


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City of Phoenix