The Cycles of Clough

September 7, 2010 rockman Project Related Comments Off on The Cycles of Clough
Leica automated motorized total station excavation support deformations

Leica automated motorized total station excavation support deformations

At last month’s Earth Retention Conference, ER2010, there were many references to the second ER conference in 1990. One paper from that proceedings that garnered many mentions and was referenced by several at this year’s conference as a seminal paper was by Dr. G. Wayne Clough and Thomas D. O’Rourke entitled ‘Construction induced movement of insitu walls‘. I found it somewhat poetic that a recent issue of Geocomp’s newsletter described the monitoring of deformations of the temporary shoring for the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Geocomp performed the monitoring using multiple Leica automated motorized total stations (AMTS) with reflective prism targets along with their iSiteCentral software to ensure no deformation-induced damage to the adjacent historic library structure. [Source: Geocomp Newsletter. Image: Geocomp]

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World Trade Center Slurry Wall to Become Part of Museum

April 28, 2008 rockman Miscellaneous Comments Off on World Trade Center Slurry Wall to Become Part of Museum

The only portions of the World Trade Center towers that survived the attack on 9/11 were the basement slurry walls, part of the original shoring and foundation system. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center that is currently under construction will preserve a portion of that wall making it the largest exhibit the museum will offer. The wall section displayed will be 62-ft by 64-ft.

The existing slurry walls are being incorporated into the foundation system of the new facility but not without some improvements. The are adding some kind of foundations improvements to stabilize the toe of the walls, the New York Times article calls them caissons, but I don’t know if its a tangent or secant wall or something else. They are also lining them with additional concrete and reinforcement in front of the walls along with additional tiebacks to stabilize them. In the portion of the wall that will be displayed, a counterfort wall will be constructed behind it and new tiebacks will be installed on the front. Work for the counterfort wall will be done by hand in order to avoid the existing tieback cables. All of the existing tiebacks will be left intact. Check out the NY Times article for a great graphic showing the system. (Illustration by New York Times)

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Nicholson Awarded Earth Retention Contract for Seattle Light Rail Project

January 20, 2010 rockman Press Releases Comments Off on Nicholson Awarded Earth Retention Contract for Seattle Light Rail Project

Nicholson Construction CompanyPITTSBURGH, PA – January 15, 2010 – Nicholson was awarded a subcontract by Traylor Bros./Frontier-Kemper JV that includes temporary shoring and the construction of the permanent reinforced concrete diaphragm walls for the a new light rail station near the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium in Seattle. The project owner is Sound Transit and the work will be completed in a joint venture with Condon-Johnson & Associates. [Editor] Click through for the entire press release from GeoPrac.net sponsor Nicholson Construction. [/Editor] […]