September 2018 Site after first day of driving test piles
September 2018 Driving pipe piles for building foundation
September 2018 Early stages of foundation pile driving along the water
September 2018 Driving piles adjacent to existing building
August 2018 Driving piles inside the contamination containment cap
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Location
Baltimore, MD
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Duration
June 2018 - November 2018
Wagman’s Geotechnical Construction group completed a $4.8M foundation project that consisted of driving steel sheet and pipe piles for a new 12 story building with 330,000 SF of office and hotel space.
The Harbor Point area of Baltimore is the pervious site of Allied Signal’s Baltimore Works facility. After the facility had ceased operations in 1985, it was discovererd that their chromium contaminated soils. Slurry walls and liners were installed to protect the harbor from these contaminates. Wagman successfully worked with specialty environmental contractors to safety install deep foundations in these hazardous ground conditions. Wagman installed 240 LF of steel sheet pile in the existing slurry bentonite wall and 590 EA (over 20,000 LF) of 14” diamter pipe pile for the foundation.
Key Challenges & Project Details
- Due to the success from previous projects on this site, Wagman was rehired to install deep foundations and sheet piles in contaminated soils.
- This was the second project that Wagman successfully completed at Harbor Point in Baltimore.