Houston’s Waco Street Bridge, which had frequently been hit by oversized trucks, was proposed for demolition by the Texas Department of Transportation. Stiver Engineering provided the custom plan that the contractor used to successfully complete the demolition.
Stiver Engineering provided a custom beam and plate shoring design for the ongoing Northeast Water Purification Plant Expansion Project in Houston. The custom design was greater than 250 feet long. The pit was located next to Lake Houston with a live 74-inch diameter pipe that crossed through the shoring and discharged into Lake Houston. The…
As part of work on three new Highway 105 bridges that cross rivers between Brenham and Navasota, Texas, Stiver Engineering provided a sheet pile and tie rod shoring system design for the installation of the bridges’ bent foundation and abutment. The shoring plan included temporary wale sets, as well as a staging plan for accessing…
As part of a levee improvement project in Sugar Land, Texas, Stiver Engineering provided analysis and design for a three-sided shoring system with steel frames and timber lagging. The shoring was roughly 28.5 feet deep and set back in the levee with one side of the shoring system daylighting into the channel.
Stiver Engineering provided key services as part of the largest and most complex sanitary sewer improvement project that the San Antonio, Texas Water System (SAWS) has ever undertaken. The project involves replacing a deteriorating, 5-mile-long pipeline, known as the “W-6 Upper Segment” main, that serves approximately 500,000 residents in the San Antonio area. The replacement…