Case Studies Case Studies - Page 4
After the 2008 flood events in eastern Iowa, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reevaluated the 100 and 500 year floodplains for the affected area. As a result,...
Oak Hall is a five-story building on the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) campus. Up to three inches of differential settlement was observed between the building’s...
A sanitary sewer forcemain was planned along an existing roadway. A 280 meter long section of the forcemain would include two 200 millimeter (nominal 8”) PVC...
Wainwright Hall at the Fort Riley Military Reservation in north central Kansas was constructed in 1889. A 50-foot-long by 10-foot-wide porch in the southeast corner of the...
The renovation of a 15,000-square-foot building was planned at the Bowe Machine facility. New foundations were required at 39 new column locations and for a large...
The 70-foot-long by 40-foot-deep “bump-out” section of the library experienced differential settlement relative to the main structure and along its exterior...
Two new, independent sections of stormwater outfall sewers were proposed through a flood mitigation levee along the east bank of the Missouri River. One section would be approximately...
A bridge was proposed to span over the Little Papillion Creek and allow pedestrian access to a new community sports arena. Temporary sheet pile walls were installed to...
An abandoned gas station built in the 1950s was being remodeled into a bakery. The general contractor found the original building construction did not include a lintel...
The Boeing Company acquired a 12,000-square-foot warehouse from Edwin Watts Golf. Boeing planned to convert the commercial distribution warehouse into a military parts...
April 2015 -- When the original, two-lane, trestle bridge experienced washout, it was replaced with multiple culverts covered with rock and soil. However, these culverts did...
A 2,800-square-foot addition was planned to extend the warehouse at four loading dock doors. The geotechnical investigation performed for the proposed addition included...
Memorial Union serves as a community center and student union building for the University of Missouri. The building’s prominent bell tower is considered by many...
April 2015 -- A new blower building was planned at a wastewater treatment facility. The area chosen for the proposed structure was previously used as a lagoon for the...
A new maintenance building was planned at an existing water treatment plant. The maintenance building would be a steel-framed structure with an approximate building footprint...
