I know this topic is a bit of a political lightning rod, but I recently came across this video and was impressed with the innovative approach to constructing the foundations for the US Border Wall. […]
Chase Stadium in San Francisco opened in 2019 as a cornerstone of the transformation of the Mission Bay Neighborhood (a former industrial zone) into a thriving entertainment and transportation hub. Home to the Golden State […]
A TBM named for Eliza Leggett, an active participant on the underground railroad, and later a suffragist, has been tunneling for the past 6 months on the massive I-75 reconstruction project in metropolitan Detroit. The […]
Two recent projects using TerraThane™ geotechnical polyurethane grout were successful in solving seepage problems. TerraThane™ is a two-part geotechnical polymer that when mixed at the injection location, expands to many times its initial volume and […]
Keller posted a very cool drone video of a anchored bored pile wall in an urban area of Lisbon, Portugal. I don’t speak Portuguese, so I can’t read the captions, but the video speaks for […]
Problem There’s an old saying, “If you have a 14′ stormwater drain that has some severe voids behind it, then you’re asking for trouble if you don’t fix it!” That’s not actually an old saying, […]
There is a neat little blurb in Roads and Bridges magazine on a small mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining wall at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Coast of Virginia. The wall was designed and […]
Drilling test wells at the bottom of the Grand Canyon requires a great deal of planning, logistics, and of course the right equipment and expertise. Yellow Jacket Drilling Services, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, was selected […]
When culverts, storm drains, and manholes age or settle, joints that once were tight begin to open up. When that happens, water and soil can migrate through these cracks, termed inflow and infiltration (I&I). It […]
The Galveston Coastal Services Joint Venture was recently awarded the design of a 26.7-mile long segment of levee and floodwall system along the Texas coast near Galveston. The overall project is slated to last 8 […]
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