Port of Anacortes Environmental Remediation
The community of Anacortes, Washington is located on Fidalgo Island in north Puget Sound, about 65 miles from Seattle. The Port of Anacortes currently owns multiple properties along Fidalgo Bay and the Guemes Channel that were historically used for industrial purposes that left behind toxic pollutants in the upland areas and shoreline sediments. In late […]
Gates Foundation Headquarters, Geotechnical Services
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a private family foundation that funds education, health and development programs around the world. The Gates family envisioned building a new world headquarters for the foundation on urban land in Seattle, Washington. GeoEngineers was fortunate to be involved from the very beginning—long before a site was selected—and remained […]
Tonquin Avenue Bridge Replacement
The Tonquin Avenue Bridge is located in a coastal town in southwestern Washington State. In 2006, the City of Ocean Shores closed the 40-year-old timber bridge over man-made Lake Minard Canal because its pilings were failing and its timbers were rotting. In 2008, the City decided to replace the old bridge, which had been a […]
I-405 Bellevue Braids Design-Build Project
More than 800,000 people a day travel Interstate 405, the 30-mile-long freeway that serves Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and other communities east of Seattle. The I-405 Bellevue Braids Design-Build project is one of the most critical projects in the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Master Plan to reduce traffic congestion and improve mobility for users […]
Taxiway F Cleanup and Restoration
From 1978 through 2000, a series of crop-dusting companies used the Port of Skagit County’s (WA) Taxiway F Site at the Skagit Regional Airport. Their operations at the facility included storing and mixing pesticides, fungicides and herbicides and loading them onto aircraft. The chemicals released in the process contaminated an area measuring approximately 2.2 acres, […]
Stadium Place Phase One Development
GeoEngineers provided geotechnical design and construction-monitoring services for Stadium Place Phase One, a mixed-use, high-rise residential development located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square district. Stadium Place Investors, LLC is developing the project, which features a four-story concrete podium containing nearly 400 parking stalls and ground-level retail. The podium supports three residential towers, and extends as […]
Port of Portland Terminal 6 Modernization
The Port of Portland’s container wharf is an active facility and the Port’s primary source of revenue. Because the wharf was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, it did not conform to the current code seismic standards. In 2000, the Port launched an initiative to upgrade the wharf, but by 2008 when the Port secured […]
Idaho State Highway 16 Extension
GeoEngineers led geotechnical design and provided construction support services to connect state Highway 44 and US Highway 20/26 in Treasure Valley near Boise, ID. This project is the first phase of the future Central Valley Expressway that will connect seven cities to Interstate 84. GeoEngineers, as part of a design team selected by the Idaho […]
Douglas County Aquifer Storage and Recovery Feasibility Evaluation
The Washington Department of Ecology contracted with GeoEngineers to explore and evaluate aquifer conditions in a 5-square-mile study area located in the northern portion of Douglas County, WA. The contract resulted from the Washington State Legislature’s 2006 directive to the Department of Ecology to aggressively pursue water-supply development in the Columbia River basin through storage […]
Delivering Pathogen-Free Water to Salmon Hatchery
Two dams in Olympic Nationa Park, Glines Canyon and Elwha, were slated for removal beginning in 2011 as part of the National Park Service’s Elwha River Restoration project. Both dams were upstream of a salmon hatchery owned and operated by the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe. To prepare for this project, the tribe needed to move […]