Stiver Engineering provided construction enigneering by designing the shoring system for the excavation beneath 12th Street on the UTMB Campus in Galveston, Texas. The shoring system was designed using cantilevered soldier piles in the sandy soils by pinning the base of the soldier piles with a timber member or steel pipe cross strut.
A contractor in Downtown Houston, Texas approached Stiver Engineering and requested our assistance in the construction of a pedestrian tunnel connecting the Heritage Plaza skyscraper to a proposed parking garage across the intersection of Dallas St. and Bagby St. We provided construction engineering by designing the shoring system for the excavation beneath the designated intersection…
Due to a number of issues, there was a 1.1-mile gap in the Trail at Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. Along this gap, visitors had to divert onto the narrow sidewalk and travel along busy Riverside Drive, crossing six lanes of I-35 access roads to travel east or west and use the south side…
One of our clients in Houston, Texas came to us with a specific request: install large caissons without steel reinforcing in order to avoid interference with the products being tested within the structures. We provided the client with multiple caisson designs that utilized fiberglass-reinforced concrete. We designed these structures to be poured in lifts and…