Cleanup teams recently created a new database to keep equipment organized, save money and stick to the schedule of safely and efficiently demolishing a 33-acre legacy uranium enrichment building at the Portsmouth Site.
Office of Environmental Management
September 29, 2026
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An aerial view of the X-333 Process Building demolition project shows some of the equipment tracked with a new database created at the Portsmouth Site. The database will reduce schedule impacts and save money by creating better equipment tracking.
PIKETON, Ohio — Cleanup teams recently created a new database to keep equipment organized, save money and stick to the schedule of safely and efficiently demolishing a 33-acre legacy uranium enrichment building at the Portsmouth Site.
Demolition at the site requires a synchronous approach to ensure crews perform activities as scheduled to move cleanup projects forward. That means equipment must be in place and operable each day.
“With a $108 million budget for equipment for the X-333 Process Building demolition, the database maximizes the use of taxpayers’ dollars,” Federal Project Director Christy Brown said. “Ultimately, efficiencies like this database enable us to complete the cleanup on schedule, which will result in long term economic growth, community revitalization and high quality jobs for American workers.”
Construction Supervisor Jessica Hurd inputs data into the equipment tracking database. The new system has helped the Portsmouth Site team save time and money on equipment repairs and upgrades.
The database keeps an accurate account of spare parts inventory to minimize machine downtime, provides a historical log of repairs and costs by tracking each piece of equipment and helps the team stay informed of the upcoming preventative maintenance scheduling without impact on the overall project schedule.
Database logs can be frequent. Crews update the database with inspections of the large shears used for demolition at four- and eight-hour intervals. While the cutting blades have an anticipated lifespan of 40 to 80 hours, rotating them before damage occurs can extend their lives up to four times as long.
“The success of this project depends heavily on managing the equipment to maximize productivity,” Southern Ohio Cleanup Company (SOCCo) Construction Supervisor Jessica Hurd said. “We created an equipment tracking database to help us stay ahead of schedule and leverage labor costs.”
SOCCo is the deactivation and demolition contractor at the Portsmouth Site.
Teams will also use the database to track wear and tear on shears used to dismantle the building to maintain optimum performance; monitor fuel usage for more accurate projections; and record repairs on equipment to identify trends that reduce impacts to the project schedule.
“By allowing us to see who is responsible for the equipment, the database shows who to contact in a moment’s notice,” Hurd said. “It is a much more organized methodology to save time and money.”
The X-333 demolition began in April last year and is scheduled for completion in 2031. As one of the largest facilities on the Portsmouth Site, this project represents a landmark step in freeing up additional land for redevelopment of the site as an energy hub.
-Contributor: Shawn Jordan
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