Using an oblique shaft to cross slopes in pipeline construction can protect the environment, overcome difficulties related to slope stability, and save construction costs. Based on slope stability ...

King County is getting ready to use a shaft excavation machine that will be the first of its kind in North America. James W. Fowler Co., the general contractor, is using it to build a 30-foot-diameter ...

A Liebherr HS 895 HD duty-cycle crawler crane fitted with clamshell bucket is carrying out excavation for largest public works contract ever let by the City of Portland. Shafts are being formed for an ...

As part of constructing the recently commissioned We Energies’ Oak Creek Power Plant Elm Road units, four remarkable below-ground structures were built. Each unique structure required creative designs ...

Muskegon Community College (MCC) recently began work renovating several building on their Western Michigan campus. One challenging renovation was the addition of a new elevator in the Student Union ...

Traditional NDT methods like visual inspections and soundings are limited in assessing large, steel-rich transmission foundations, often missing critical defects. Modern NDT techniques, including ...

On the shores of a shrinking Lake Mead in southeastern Nevada, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is four years into a $650-million low-level pumping station that’s been blasted and excavated and ...

Excavation work has begun for a new ventilation shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, USA. The start of work on the USD75 million shaft, which is integral to increasing ventilation ...