by Ben White, P.E. An intensive design-phase pile test program saved significant time and money on the I-480 Valley View Bridge project near Cleveland, Ohio. The design-build team of Walsh Construction and CH2M (now Jacobs) developed the pile load test program and contracted GRL to perform the testing and analysis. […]

In the middle of the Berlin district Moabit emerges the new “Quartier Heidestrasse” (Heidestrasse district) in direct neighborhood to the main station and only a few minutes from the German Bundestag and the Brandenburg Gate. Divided into seven individual building complexes, the new district will provide space for residential and […]

The main development in Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field is D-Island, a structure built on recovered land that typically outputs 340,000 barrels per day. Due to reaching the end of its service life, both its flare tips required replacement. This work was to be carried out during a tight shutdown window. Ersai […]

The contractors THV Artes Depret – Franki formed a temporary partnership to construct the new lock in Sint-Baafs-Vijve in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Becoming part of Europe’s largest inland waterway network called Canal Seine Nord Europe vividly illustrates its importance. Moreover, the 107 kilometers will connect the Seine and Scheldt Rivers and facilitate inland waterway transport. […]

Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands’ largest and busiest port, was facing limited operational space in 2016 and the container traffic was about to outgrow capacity in the near future. It was time to act. Therefore, the Port of Tórshavn and the local entrepreneur J&K Petersen signed the largest harbor expansion ever taken […]

Première for LB 16 unplugged Expansion of motorway junction Restricted working height under power lines It is a unique construction site: the use of machines with an electric drive means deep foundation work can for the first time be executed almost emission-free. With the LB 16 unplugged the first battery-powered […]

DSC Dredge, LLC wins bid for a new, non-propelled, cutter suction head dredge solicited by The Marine Design Center (MDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) earlier this month. When completed, the new cutter suction head dredge will operate out of Astara, Azerbaijan to not only maintain the […]

Hamburg is setting new standards in urban design and sustainability with Europe’s biggest inner-city development project to date. Since 2001, the HafenCity district, which is close to the historic Speicherstadt area, has been a project of superlatives. Built on a former harbor and industrial area covering a total of 157 […]

A KLEMM KR 807-7G Drilling Rig worked discretely in the shadows of a shoring wall on a busy jobsite traversed by heavy equipment in the budding metropolis of Tysons Corner, Virginia. Berkel & Company Contractors had already installed six tieback anchors before lunch on this picture-perfect morning in late April […]

With an estimated completion date of Autumn 2021, a multi-million-pound project to improve Sunderland’s road network is well underway, moving into the third of five phases. The project will create a dual carriageway through Pallion, running underneath the Queen Alexandra Bridge, into Deptford and onto the city centre and St […]