Photo Credit: Missouri Department of Transportation I and my fellow bloggers here at DBA (David Graham and Aaron Hudson) try to keep up with the various projects under construction that we had a part of. Sometimes it is hard to do once we have left the site after foundations are complete. Modern information technology makes … Continue reading Project Update–New River Bridge (I-70), St. Louis, MO
The new I-70 Mississippi River Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri is moving along and getting noticed in the news. Here are a couple of (somewhat) recent articles: The Republic (Columbus, Indiana) (01/29/2012) St. Louis Business Journal (01/10/2012) KMOX CBS (12/28/2011) The New Mississippi River Bridge Project page maintained by MoDOT has links to all that … Continue reading I-70 Mississippi River Bridge–News and Webcams!
The drilled shaft foundations for the new I-70 Mississippi River Bridge in St. Louis, MO are the subject of two recent papers written by Paul and Dan and published by DFI. Dan presented the paper focusing on the Alternate Technical Concept (ATC) process at the DFI 36th Annual Conference in October. (previous post here). A … Continue reading I-70 St. Louis Bridge–New Papers by Paul and Dan
The new I-70 bridge over the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri is quite the project. When completed, it will be the third longest cable-stayed bridge in the United States, with a 1,500-ft main span. Most significantly for the geotechnical community, the bridge made history when one of its 11-ft diameter drilled shafts resisted a … Continue reading New I-70 Bridge Featured in Foundation Drilling Magazine
It may not have been intended as such, but we will “claim” this large rock core on the Mississippi River as a “geotechnical monument”. At the site of the new I-70 crossing over the Mississippi River in St. Louis, one of the 11-foot diameter limestone rock cores retrieved from one of the rock sockets … Continue reading “Geotechnical Monument” in St. Louis
DFI held its 36th Annual Meeting October 18-21 in Boston, including the annual awards banquet. Dan was honored with the 2011 Distinguished Service Award at the banquet. The Christopher S. Bond Bridge in Kansas City, MO was honored with a Special Recognition award (one of 5 runners-up for the Outstanding Project Award). Photos of DBA … Continue reading DBA at DFI 36th Annual Meeting–Photos and Links
Paul gave a presentation recently at the Iowa ASCE Geotechnical Conference where he discussed two project case histories for LRFD design of bridge foundations. The meeting was held March 3, 2011 in Ames, Iowa. In his presentation, Paul gave an overview of the LRFD design procedure as it applies to foundations, reminding them that LRFD … Continue reading LRFD Design Procedures Case Histories – Iowa ASCE Geotechnical Conference
Dan recently played the part of storyteller at the Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Conference (STGEC) 2010 conference in Charleston, West Virginia when he gave the lunch presentation on the conference’s first day. He took the audience on a trip down the Mississippi River from a foundation engineer’s perspective, talking about several bridges that DBA has … Continue reading A Foundation Engineering Trip Down the Mississippi River
DBA was part of foundation engineering and construction history while participating in a drilled shaft load test for the New I-70 Mississippi River Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri. A new O-cell world record of 36,000 tons (bi-directional) was achieved on the test, besting the former record of just under 32,000 tons set in 2005 in … Continue reading World Record O-Cell Load Test in St. Louis, MO!
I have added some new project summaries to our Consulting Projects list. I have also revised/updated the individual project pages we have, plus the Consulting Projects and Research Projects pages. The projects I have added are: Beck Street Bridge over I-15, Salt Lake City, Utah Hurricane Protection Projects, New Orleans, Louisiana I-70 Mississippi River Bridge … Continue reading New Project Summaries Added