Griffin Dewatering: Providing the Highest Quality Service and Equipment to the Ground Water Control Industry for Over 70 Years
Griffin Dewatering Corporation's principal business operation is groundwater control in the construction market, which includes the supply, installation, operation, removal, and abandonment of the dewatering and/or pumping equipment necessary to make construction dewatering easier. These services include dewatering systems - wellpoint, deep well and educator; subsurface barriers - biopolymer trenches and slurry walls; remediation systems - monitoring wells and vapor extraction; leechate and methane collection in landfills; and water control. Griffin Dewatering also provides engineering and technical services to evaluate site conditions and develop solutions for groundwater control projects.
"Griffin [Dewatering] works as a partner, a provider of engineering solutions, a subcontractor or an equipment provider, depending on the relationship the customer desires," says Tom Aldridge of Griffin Dewatering. "We have a number of clients who utilize our services in one or more ways [and] Griffin [Dewatering] is always looking for cost-effective and innovative methods to provide [each] client [with] the services [he or she] needs."
Griffin Dewatering was founded in the Bronx Borough of New York City in 1934 by the Griffin family. From its humble beginnings, Griffin Dewatering has provided construction dewatering and portable pump equipment. Griffin Dewatering excels due to what Aldridge refers to as its "premier features."
These include:
Experience - The engineers and field-personnel at Griffin Dewatering have accumulated experience at the numerous groundwater sites they have assisted with all over the world. This provides them with an extensive background and knowledge base for groundwater-based problem solving.
Flexibility - Griffin Dewatering's extensive equipment array and innovative methods allows it to offer only the best solutions to clients' needs. Griffin Dewatering has many drill rigs placed strategically at its United States offices to solve any client's need and, due to its mobilization capabilities, it can move rigs and highly-trained crews to a job site quickly. Griffin Dewatering is able to provide bucket, auger or wet rotary drilling. These rigs can be either two-wheel drive or rough terrain or track mounted, depending on site demands and conditions. Griffin also has an extensive inventory of trailer mounted rigs and drilling support equipment.
Established Reputation - With its long-term track record, Griffin Dewatering is one of the oldest national groundwater contractors and pump providers in the United States.
Field-Proven Equipment- All of the equipment owned and used by Griffin Dewatering is used and tested every day in demanding applications. This ensures that Griffin Dewatering can offer only the best equipment to its clients.
One of the keys to Griffin Dewatering's long-term success is the high level of team work between Griffin Dewatering's engineers and its field personnel. Griffin Dewatering is, and has always been, very strongly field oriented and sensitive to the special needs of general contractors. This includes the need for timeliness in bids and job rescheduling.
Additionally, Griffin Dewatering can be engaged in a turnkey contract. This allows Griffin Dewatering to be in total control of the layout, installation and operation of construction dewatering systems. By undertaking engineering studies, including an on-site pump test, Griffin Dewatering can provide design recommendations. Because this total concept is a comprehensive approach, it includes a guarantee by Griffin Dewatering to provide the necessary results.
Griffin Dewatering's technical, sales and field personnel are dedicated to a philosophy of serving the company's customers by providing the most effective techniques to control groundwater on time and on budget. Griffin Dewatering also offers services in the form of rental or sale of equipment. Providing the necessary equipment from its extensive inventory, Griffin Dewatering will also assign a field supervisor to advise the contractors regarding proper installation and operation of the equipment. Further distinguishing Griffin Dewatering from its competitors, its field supervisors and maintenance specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist in any operational problems.
Art C. Little, Senior Estimator for Ron Williams Construction Company, Inc., has worked with Griffin Dewatering on two projects. Little says, "Griffin [Dewatering] performs work in a very safe and professional manner with qualified personnel in a very economical manner." In fact, Griffin Dewatering was so crucial to the outcome of the projects, that "without [its] expertise and support, the projects would not have been a success for all of the parties that were involved," says Little.
The same sentiment is echoed by Aaron Buttress, Project Manager for Current Builders. The equipment and services provided by Griffin Dewatering were "essential to [Current Builder's] ability to perform foundation work," Buttress says.
"Griffin, as usual, did an excellent job providing the right equipment and maintaining it through the dewatering period," says Frank Weber, Project Manager for CDC Building, Inc. "We kicked up dust during the entire process of building the foundations and basement, all of which were below NGVD [National Geodetic Vertical Datum]."
Kris Cook, Project Manager for Envirocon, Inc., solicited a bid from Griffin Dewatering. "We were impressed with [its] innovative approach and willingness to help," states Cook. "[Griffin Dewatering] helped us to develop an approach to dewatering a difficult project."
The equipment, services, support and technical knowledge provided by Griffin Dewatering are extremely valuable to its clients. In fact, Alejandro Leon, Project Master for Baker Concrete, is quick to point out, after only using Griffin Dewatering on two projects, that Griffin is "critical and crucial to [Baker's] production."
Griffin Dewatering Corporation has made a name for itself in the competitive construction market. By offering top-notch service and equipment that is both specialized and tailor-fit to the needs of its clients, and support that assists the end-users for successful use, it ensures that its clients derive maximum value and benefit from its services and equipment.
