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 pressure grouted micropiles, the minimum bond length is [ 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… ]
The Eastwood Elementary School, located in Morgantown, WV, is a recently completed WV DEP Environmental Award winning facility. As a Subcontractor to the General Contractor for the project, Coastal’s portion of the work included drilling strategically located boreholes, placing 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… ]
Coastal was selected to perform the abandoned mine void grouting as part of the construction of a retail store located near Centerville, Iowa. Due to the abandoned mine being flooded, the project required strict erosion and sediment controls to deal [ 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… ]
The project required drilling two 8” diameter holes for the installation of new waterstops between the selected monolith joints within the dam structure. The holes were required to precisely follow the vertical joints between the monoliths and to deviate no [ Read More… ]
