The Houston rapid transit project specified that two 36-inch supply and return lines be relocated for the construction of the Metro Light Rail Downtown Line in Houston, Texas. Stiver Engineering provided construction engineering by designing the shoring system for the excavation beneath Rusk Street in Downtown Houston, which was built using soldier piles, timber lagging,…
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.
Stiver Engineering provided construction engineering by designing a dewatering system for the construction of a stormwater pump station in Liberty County, adjacent to the Trinity River. Our client, located in Liberty County, Texas, depended on us to analyze and interpret the geotechnical data of the project in order to provide a recommendation for the appropriate…
Stiver Engineering provided one of our clients located in Liberty County, Texas, with construction engineering through designs for a reinforced concrete stormwater pump station. The designs included two 60-inch diesel-powered pumps, a steel trash rack, and a reinforced concrete influent channel. We also provided rehabilitation designs for the adjacent original 1962 pump station, and we installed…
A contractor in Corpus Christi, Texas hired Stiver Engineering to provide structural design by designing a caisson for the Kinney Street stormwater pump station project that would improve drainage systems in the downtown area. The pump station contained five vertical stormwater pumps, baffle walls, mechanical bar screens, generators, a discharge chamber, and a control building…