Nicholson Construction Company, a GeoPrac sponsor, has been working on 68,000 square feet of shoring and permanent retaining walls for an indoor practice football field and running track, as well as two levels of underground parking at the University of Colorado Boulder. The wall types include soil nail walls, cantilevered drilled shaft and shotcrete wall, and cantilevered soldier pile with wood lagging. The project has been running since this summer and is projected to be complete in February. [Source: Read the full press release from Nicholson Construction Company. Image: Nicholson Construction via the Colorado Daily]
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Nicholson Acquires Terra Drilling
Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson Construction Company has acquired the capital stock of Terra Drilling Company Inc., a geotechnical contractor headquartered in Hudson, MA.
The acquisition strengthens Nicholson’s position in the New England market, where Terra Drilling has completed hundreds of piling, earth retention, and grouting projects since it was founded in 1984. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release. [/Editor]