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PSE's Tacoma Liquefied Natural Gas Facility
As utilities continue to diversify their energy mix and look for more efficient solutions to our growing energy needs, many are increasingly relying on liquified natural gas (LNG). In 2012, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), a private utility serving more than a million customers in Washington State, began preparing to build an LNG processing and storage...
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Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion
GeoEngineers designed lift plans for massive steel cages, like this one.The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel crosses a portion of the Chesapeake Bay to connect Norfolk, Virginia with Newport News. Unfortunately, in recent years it became a choke point for commuters and travelers on I-64 between Virginia Beach and Richmond or Washington D.C....
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Loyola Drive / I-10 Interchange Design-Build
This critical infrastructure initiative for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) was meant to ease traffic congestion and provide drivers with direct access to a new terminal at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. GeoEngineers provided comprehensive geotechnical services as a member of the Gilchrist- and Stantec-led design-build team, completing geotechnical investigations, analyses,...
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Summit Excavation Support
The Seattle Convention Center is a major economic stimulus for Seattle, Washington, drawing as many as 400,000 people to town each year for conferences and events. In 2008, the convention center’s owners embarked on an ambitious $2 billion expansion to double the facility’s available space and better meet the needs of the rapidly growing city.GeoEngineers...
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Direct Pipe Installation Under Sabine Neches Levee
The City of Port Arthur, Texas needed to install a pipeline under the Sabine Neches Waterway to carry water from Port Arthur to an industrial facility 12 miles away in Louisiana. This crossing was complicated by the proximity of the Sabine Neches waterway hurricane flood protection levee, an active railroad, busy highway and residential area.Originally...
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Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. Terminal Containment Wall Remediation
After more than 20 years of planning and preparation, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) completed a new state-of-the-art shipping terminal near Charleston Harbor. The Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. Terminal significantly expanded South Carolina Ports’ capacity with three massive ship berths, a 47-acre container yard and five 169-foot cargo cranes—among the tallest on the East...
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Newport Way Culvert and Roadway Improvements
The City of Issaquah, Washington, needed to improve Newport Way, a heavily trafficked two-lane road in the greater Seattle metro area, to better serve the community. The Newport Way Improvements Project would widen the road, add pedestrian and cycling features and replace three culverts along a 1.1-mile stretch of asphalt. An interdisciplinary GeoEngineers team provided...
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Go East Landfill Closure and Alpine Estates Subdivision
In 2009, private investors P&GE, LLC purchased the Go East Landfill property, a contaminated and long-abandoned landfill. The landfill was allowed to accept “wood, mineral, and concrete solid materials,” but eventually also accepted other waste, including metal dust (magnesium, phosphate, and aluminum) in 1974. This waste later caught fire, resulting in aboveground and underground fires...
