Micropile construction commenced with a detailed review and understanding of the micropile construction specification and project drawings. Dimensions of permanent materials including casing and all-thread-bar are common for all types of micropiles. For rock bonded micropiles, the minimum embedment into [ Read More… ]
The limited mobility grout injected into void spaces within soil or rock, soft soils, or the soil-filled cavities of the bedrock, improved the subsurface soil and rock conditions by filling the void spaces and replacing soft, loose soils with high [ Read More… ]
Micropile construction commenced with a detailed review and understanding of the micropile construction specification and project drawings. Dimensions of permanent materials including casing, all-thread-bar, are common for all types of micropiles. For rock bonded micropiles, the minimum embedment into rock [ Read More… ]
The Kentucky Lock is an existing 600 foot long navigation lock located on the Tennessee River near Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The US Army Corps of Engineers constructed a new 1,200 foot long navigation lock landward of the existing lock. The [ Read More… ]
The installation of 28 permanent rock anchors and 109 passive dowels on the face and crest of the dam associated with the remediation efforts to improve dam stability. The structure is under the governance of the state Fish and Boat Commission [ Read More… ]
This project called for the installation of 278 high-capacity, post-tensioned, multi-strand rock anchors. The anchors ranged in size up to 61-strands with test loads approaching 3000 kips. The anchors were installed in 15-inch diameter boreholes to deviation tolerances of less [ Read More… ]
The project was the expansion of an existing parking lot to a high capacity parking garage located at very busy, high-end shopping mall. The construction challenges associated with the expansion included both geotechnical aspects of the subsurface, and impacts to [ Read More… ]
