At 97 feet, IDX Tower’s excavation was one of Seattle’s deepest. Two shoring walls were required to support the YMCA building, which forms a “reentrant” corner on the site. The IDX Tower excavation ...

Water – and mud – flow downhill. This fact of nature can be an enormous problem in managing excavation and tunnelling projects. One of the best ways to stop water is to freeze it. Freezing water in ...

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 ...

Contractors can often develop their own shoring designs for trench excavations. However, excavations near adjacent structures, underground utilities and roadways may come with unique and complex ...

Workers laser-focused on prepping a hemmed-in Seattle site for redevelopment aren’t paying attention to the project’s 850-ft-tall centerpiece—Rainier Square Tower. They may not even know that RST’s ...

The key to safe excavations between 5 and 20 feet deep is that the work be supervised closely by a trained, competent person. (Trenches 20 feet or deeper require a safety system devised by a ...

An unassuming apartment block project on the outskirts of Geneva is helping UK rental company Groundforce introduce its hydraulic shoring technology to the European market. Murray Pollok reports from ...

Build Safe UAE (BSU) is set to hold talks with RAK Municipality next week to learn more about the unsafe shoring of excavations after a fatality took place in the emirate. Meanwhile, the Dubai ...

Earth piled into an excavation site at 500 Foster Ave. supports a temporary shoring wall that collapsed last Wednesday. | Mario Bartel, Tai-City News An engineering professor says insufficient ...

UAE-based Amirah Developments has advanced into the final piling and shoring works for its first residential project, Bonds Avenue Residences, thus marking a key construction milestone at Dubai ...