Stiver Engineering provided key design services for the Northeast Transmission Line (NETL) project in Houston. The NETL will transmit 365 million gallons of water a day from the Northeast Water Purification Plant through a 108-inch steel waterline to approximately 900,000 homes in Harris County. Stiver provided a shoring design using soldier piles, wale sets, and…
Stiver Engineering designed a 204 ft. x 66 ft. x 24 ft deep multi-phase shoring system using piles, wales, and knee bracing. Implemented access ramps and phases, this shoring design allowed the contractor to complete the project despite the excavation being adjacent to large storage tanks.
Stiver Engineering provided a corrosion resistant vinyl sheet pile and treated timber bulkhead design for a property on Galveston Bay in Seabrook, Texas. The bulkhead consisted of vinyl sheet piles, timber wales, galvanized tie rods and timber deadman piles.
Stiver Engineering provided launch shaft, excavator digger shield and thrust block design services for a 108-inch-diameter water line project along city easements from Milner Road to Aldine Westfield Road in Houston, Texas, near the Intercontinental Park area. Two shoring pits, each more than 30 feet deep, were designed with soldier piles, steel plates and timber…
Stiver Engineering provided sheet pile shoring for the installation of beach vaults for the Big Wave Project in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. The site had hard corals located 13 feet below natural ground, so we created two alternatives for the shoring pit. The first alternative was a cantilever shoring system consisting of 14-foot…
