For the second year in a row, GeoEngineers’ Springfield, Missouri office took home a Grand Award at the American Council of Engineering Companies of Missouri (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Awards banquet February 13. GeoEngineers provided geotechnical exploration and instrumentation, innovative engineering design, and construction observation to help save and protect the Suites at Fall Creek condominiums, which hung over a slope washed away from record flooding in Lake Taneycomo in April 2008. This is the firm’s fourth ACEC award this year.
A number of factors make this project worthy of recognition:
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GeoEngineers’ retaining structure design innovatively combined two traditional engineering techniques to create a successful solution for the Suites at Fall Creek.
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The hybrid soil nail and vertical element retaining wall design eliminated the need for two rows of soil nails, saving the Suites at Fall Creek more than $100,000.
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GeoEngineers’ design incorporated a launchable stone toe that allowed the contractor to avoid excavation below the Lake’s water level, reducing the environmental impact on the Blue Ribbon fishing area throughout construction.
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The completed retaining wall’s exterior shotcrete was stained and carved to resemble native dolomitic bedrock in the region, meeting the US Army Corps of Engineers’ requirements for the final structure to blend with the surrounding environment.
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GeoEngineers’ design protected this popular tourist destination for the future without harming the appearance or ecology of the area.
GeoEngineers, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is an integrated earth science and technology firm with 15 offices in Missouri, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, and Louisiana. GeoEngineers specializes in crafting unique geotechnical, environmental, and ecological solutions for the energy, transportation, water and natural resource, federal, and development sectors. The GeoEngineers’ Springfield, Missouri office specializes in geotechnical investigations and engineering design projects, trenchless technologies, geophysical evaluations, and construction observation services. In fact, GeoEngineers is currently ranked as one of the top 25 trenchless design firms in the nation having completed hundreds of HDD and microtunneling projects throughout the United States and as far away as Africa.
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