CDE was called on for the installation of an earth retention system to allow the construction of a two-story below grade parking garage to serve as the foundation for a new high-rise student housing facility. To meet the requirements of [ Read More… ]
The Creek Protection Project consisted of several phases of work including increasing the hydraulic capacity of the creek. Coastal installed permanent rock anchors within a post and panel floodwall positioned in the creek. In order to resist the design load, [ 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 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… ]
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… ]
Anchor construction commences with a detailed review and understanding of the anchor construction specification and project drawings. Dimensions and properties of permanent materials including all-thread-bar, plates and grout are determined. Additionally, for rock bonded anchors, the minimum embedment into rock, [ 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… ]
This project called for a wall stabilization which consisted of the installation of 93, 30-foot solid bar nails into various underlying geotechnical conditions. Also, a two inch construction layer and a six inch final face of shotcrete was applied to [ Read More… ]
