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Project Date: 6/02-3/03
Owner:
Highway Department
Project Engineers/Managers:
Bechtel/ Parsons
Brinckerhoff
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"The
largest soil mixing project ever undertaken, worldwide...a
watershed in U.S. geotechnical engineering."
-- Civil Engineering
Magazine
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Installation of Earth Support Walls and Deep Soil Mixing from barges and Slurry Wall Installation in background.
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Project
Highlights
Fort Point Channel-Deep Soil Mixing Project
Boston, Massachusetts
• Soil stabilization on an unprecedented
scale, to a depth of 120 feet.
• Replacement of both mainline railroad and traffic
bridges.
• Installation of 300,000 sq.ft. of steel sheet piling
and four cofferdams.
• Extensive dredging, demolition and excavation in
a site that has experienced more than two centuries of
waterfront construction.
• Construction of a 400-foot long cut and cover slurry
wall supported tunnel structure.
• Work in a high traffic downtown area adjacent to railroad, mass transit, postal terminal, and the world headquarters of the Gillette Company.
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