
The winners of the prestigious Ground Engineering Awards were announced recently. The Editor’s Award was presented to a Joint Venture of Keller (parent company of GeoPrac sponsor Hayward Baker), Bam Nuttall and Taylor Woodrow as well as Mott MacDonald for their project "Use of BIM on London Underground’s Victoria Station Upgrade for delivery of the UK’s largest ever grouting scheme." Other winners included the The Emirates Airline cable car project, whose team members included Bachy Soletanche (parent company of GeoPrac Sponsor Nicholson Construction). The full details of the awards will be published in the July issue of Ground Engineering Magazine, which as of last summer, you can download for free on your iPad. [Source: New Civil Engineer. Image: Bentley]

Pittsburgh, PA – June 2, 2011 – Missouri’s Interstate 44 is considered one of the most frequently traveled highways in the central United States. In early March of 2011, Nicholson Construction was contacted to perform an emergency response grouting operation on the Gasconade Bridge, part of I-44 westbound, over the Gasconade River in Laclede County.