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San Francisco’s troubled Millennium Tower continues to sink

The iconic 58-storey residential building known as Millennium Tower at the city of San Francisco continues to sink despite a 100 million dollars fixing program has been implemented to fix it. The...

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Historic Remediation with Helical Piles

Chance Foundation Solutions was faced with the challenge to upgrade the foundation of an existing historical building for Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Biscailuz Training Center and bring...

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Keller Deep Foundations Project at P&H Inland Grain Terminal

Keller designed and constructed a deep foundations solution for a new grain terminal, overcoming the challenges of changing weather conditions. As part of the larger P&H National Grain Asset Net...

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Keller acquires GKM

Acquisition of GKM Consultants further strengthens Keller’s geotechnical monitoring expertise and solutions. Keller North America (Keller) announces the acquisition of GKM Consultants Inc., an instr...

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PLAXIS, OpenGround & GeoStudio Users: Nominate Your Project for the 2022 Going Digital Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure If you used PLAXIS, OpenGround, or GeoStudio to tackle a complex geotechnical project, you can win a trip to London and...

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Gray Matters Civil Engineering Webinar Series

Register now for “Gray Matters,” a PDH-eligible, live webinar series is designed as an introduction to helical pile technology for engineers and engineering students. Student participants will be...

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Compression Testing a Helical Pile in Less-Than-Ideal Conditions

A great benefit of helical piles is their ability to be proven with a load test in the field. Shawn Downey, from CHANCE Foundation Solutions, was once asked to complete a compression test on a helic...

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KELLER Foundations for a liquid natural gas (LNG) tank in Utah

It was a complex design with an incredibly tight schedule. But Keller pulled out all the stops to complete foundations for a liquid natural gas (LNG) tank in Utah, impressing the client and securing...

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PLAXIS – From Concept to Construction

Importing geometric and stratigraphic data to PLAXIS 3D Any infrastructure project begins with a topographic survey, context capture using drone technology or satellite imagery, or ground investigat...

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5 Questions about Load Tests on Helical Piles [Answered]

Helical pile installers and designers get this question all the time: “Do I need to do full scale load testing?” The answer is: “it depends”. Often, larger commercial projects will have load test req...

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