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Summit Excavation Support
The Seattle Convention Center is a major economic stimulus for Seattle, Washington, drawing as many as 400,000 people to town each year for conferences and events. In 2008, the convention center’s owners embarked on an ambitious $2 billion expansion to double the facility’s available space and better meet the needs of the rapidly growing city.GeoEngineers...
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Direct Pipe Installation Under Sabine Neches Levee
The City of Port Arthur, Texas needed to install a pipeline under the Sabine Neches Waterway to carry water from Port Arthur to an industrial facility 12 miles away in Louisiana. This crossing was complicated by the proximity of the Sabine Neches waterway hurricane flood protection levee, an active railroad, busy highway and residential area.Originally...
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Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion
GeoEngineers designed lift plans for massive steel cages, like this one.The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel crosses a portion of the Chesapeake Bay to connect Norfolk, Virginia with Newport News. Unfortunately, in recent years it became a choke point for commuters and travelers on I-64 between Virginia Beach and Richmond or Washington D.C....
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PSE's Tacoma Liquefied Natural Gas Facility
As utilities continue to diversify their energy mix and look for more efficient solutions to our growing energy needs, many are increasingly relying on liquified natural gas (LNG). In 2012, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), a private utility serving more than a million customers in Washington State, began preparing to build an LNG processing and storage...
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Mountain View Business Center
The Mountain View Business Center in Everett, Washington represents the successful transformation of a former sand and gravel mine into a major industrial and community asset. Over nearly three decades, the 350-acre site evolved from an active mining operation into a thriving business center supported by modern infrastructure, large-scale industrial development, and new public amenities....
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Loyola Drive / I-10 Interchange Design-Build
This critical infrastructure initiative for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) was meant to ease traffic congestion and provide drivers with direct access to a new terminal at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. GeoEngineers provided comprehensive geotechnical services as a member of the Gilchrist- and Stantec-led design-build team, completing geotechnical investigations, analyses,...
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Coffee Creek Fish Barrier Removal
A small culvert beneath U.S. Route 101 near Shelton, Washington was obstructing flow and blocking critical fish species from accessing more than 13 miles of upstream spawning habitat in Coffee Creek. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) hired GeoEngineers and partner firms to design and build a new culvert and sustainable stream alignment that...
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Go East Landfill Closure and Alpine Estates Subdivision
In 2009, private investors P&GE, LLC purchased the Go East Landfill property, a contaminated and long-abandoned landfill. The landfill was allowed to accept “wood, mineral, and concrete solid materials,” but eventually also accepted other waste, including metal dust (magnesium, phosphate, and aluminum) in 1974. This waste later caught fire, resulting in aboveground and underground fires...
