Geotechnical contractor Bauer performed work to upgrade the foundations of a historic building on an island in the middle of the River Neckar in Esslingen, Germany. The historic carpenter’s workshop will become a restaurant and market hall thanks to the 70 m long, 5 m deep anchored secant pile cutoff wall around the outside of the building and a soldier pile retaining wall carefully constructed within the building. [Source: Check out more on the project at The New Civil Engineer. Image: NCE]
The historic town of Staufen in southwestern Germany on the western edge of the Black Forest is experiencing some rather unexpected downward movement these days. Several buildings, some of them historic, are experiencing cracking and distress and are still sinking at a rate of approximately 1mm per week. Investigations are underway, but everything seems to point towards drilling operations for geothermal energy which were conducted last fall. [Editor] More after the break…[/Editor]
3D modeling and analysis including Plaxis 3D allows design of complex basement excavation shoring system in Stuttgart, Germany. […]
Early indications are that a collapse of a subway tunnel station still under construction was to blame for the sinkhole that destroyed Cologne’s Historical Archive, home to documents dating back to 922 A.D. More info after the break. (Photo by DPA via Spiegel Online)
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