Riedisheim, France – For the construction of a 6 m deep and 22 m wide water retention reservoir in the city of Riedisheim, Alsace, the French construction company DURMEYER SAS recently relied on Bauer technology, using a BAUER BG 36 to construct 96 piles with a diameter of 880/900 mm. […]

History The Port of Bellingham, in Washington State, is the northwestern most point on the United States border with Canada. At the peak of the port, near the Peace Arch, is Blaine Harbor and its marina boasting a capacity for more than 600 commercial and pleasure boats, some measuring up […]

In 2019 Wilco’s (Thunder Bay, Ontario) David Cramer contacted Berminghammer about their new line of Excavator Mounted Leads (EML) for pile driving. Having heard about Berminghammer through the Ontario Road Builder’s Association, Cramer was interested in the use of an EML for doing structural work in a market that prohibited the use of […]

Onalaska, Washington History Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is responsible for maintaining state highway Route 508 that runs between the small towns of Morton and Onalaska in Washington. The road winds through an area known as Bear Canyon and provides critical access for local residents and businesses. When a […]

The renovation of a historical railway bridge calls for a spectacular assignment in Switzerland. What is so special about it? The challenges began even before a single metre was drilled for the deep foundations. Nenzing (Austria), February 2020 – “That was extremely close,” explains Adrien. He climbs out of the […]

Threaded Bar Used as Steel Reinforcement in Concrete Slab – St. Petersburg, Florida History The Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine secured 10 acres of swampland in western Florida in 1950 with plans to establish a local Roman Catholic parish. In 1963, a permanent sanctuary, its design derived from the Byzantine […]

  The ground engineering contract for what is to become the tallest residential tower in Denmark is underway with Aarsleff Ground Engineering installing the drilled pile foundations for the 143-metre-high Lighthouse 2.0 in Aarhus located at Aarhus Ø overlooking the waterfront. Aarhus Ø is the newest part of Aarhus and […]

Jersey City, New Jersey History With some of the best views in the world, Jersey City, NJ is in the midst of a real estate renaissance. Starting in 2013, when Jersey City Mayor, Steven Fulop, took office, nearly 15,000 residential units have been constructed, with an additional 19,000 already approved. […]

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 […]