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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

18 March 2010 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 ...