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BigDig Bits & Pieces

• There is enough Steel used on the BigDig to build a Railway Track that will take you from Dublin City Centre all the way around the world.

• The BigDig construction is moving 16 Million cubic yards of earth.

• The BigDig will be laying 5000 miles of new optic cable and about 29 miles of Gas/Electric/sewer/water pipes

• The Big Dig is moving 620 thousand Truckloads of earth (dirt) or 16 Million cubic yards
The trucks if placed end to end would stretch from Chicago to Limerick City. That amounts to enough dirt to fill the RDS from top to bottom all the way 16 times.

• The Big Dig is building segments of highway that are called Boxed Tunnels and they need to float them. They weigh 50 thousand tons. It displaces more water than the SS Titanic.

• In 1983 the projected cost of the BigDig was $2.6 Billion. Today the cost is set to run to an estimated $14.8billion.

• Boston's new Cable Stayed Bridge has 1 Million feet of Cable Strand. There are 7 wires in each Cable Strand which works out at 7 Million feet of wire. You could wrap this wire around Ireland 17 Times

BigDig Workers are represented by the following unions:

International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers Insulators, Local 6

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and helpers
Boilermakers, Local 29

International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsman
Local 3, B.A.C.
Local 18, Tile & Marble Helpers

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

Carpenters District Council
Local Unions 33, 40, 56, 67, 218, 1121, 2168

International Union of Elevator Constructors
Local 4, Elevator Constructors

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Local 103, IBEW

Labourers International Union of North America
Massachusetts District
Council of Labourers
Labourers, Local 22
Labourers, Local 223
Tunnel Workers, Local 88
Wreckers, Local 1421

International Union of Operating Engineers
IUOE, Region #1
IUOE, Local 4

Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' International Association of The United States and Canada
Plasterers, Local 10
Cement Masons, Local 534
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers
Ironworkers, Local 7
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
Painters' District Council 35
Glaziers, Local 1044

United Union of Roofers, Water-proffers and Allied Workers
Roofers Union, Local 33

Sheet Metal Workers International Association
Sheet Metal Workers, Local 17

International Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
Plumbers and Gasfitters, Local 12
Pipe Fitters, Local 537

Trades on the Big Dig

Carpenters Asbestos Workers Labourers Teamsters Painters Pipefitters Sheet Metal Workers Plumbers Plasters & Cement Masons Operating Engineers Iron Workers Bricklayers

Tilers Boilermakers Crane Drivers Elevator Constructors Boilermakers Sprinkler Fitters Roofers Welders Divers Pile Drivers White Collar workers

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