Stiver Engineering provided construction consulting services for a sanitary sewer project at the Broadway Corridor in San Antonio. This project required designs for trench safety (with adjustable height); bore pit, beam, steel plate and timber lagging shoring; steel casing; liner plate tunnels; thrust block; pipe jacking; and pipe buoyancy. We delivered plans for a pipe…
Stiver Engineering was asked to provide a crane lifting plan for lifting an expansion joint for the Fred Hartman Bridge located over the Houston Ship Channel. As the combined weight of the heavy-duty crane and the expansion joint exceeded the optimum load rating of the bridge, Stiver Engineering came up with a frame design that…
Using Danby liner and grout, Stiver Engineering provided a pipe rehabilitation design for a 93-inch arch pipe at a wastewater treatment plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. The existing pipe section along with the Danby liner and grout allowed us to create a composite section. The composite section was designed so the contractor could provide a clear…
Stiver Engineering responded to an emergency situation regarding a sinkhole beneath the control building at the Houston Water Control and Improvement District’s No. 47 wastewater treatment plant. The sinkhole, which was roughly 20 feet wide and 30 feet deep, was jeopardizing the building’s stability as well as the plant’s effluent line. Stiver proposed a solution…
Stiver Engineering was retained to provide structural design through a reinforced concrete foundation design for the hydrotest machine and the steel building that covers the machine in Houston, Texas. We designed the machine foundation as a pit to capture and provide water storage for the reuse of water during the testing procedure. The reinforced concrete…