ENGEO receives 2022-2023 CalGeo Outstanding Project award
Newport Beach, California (PRWEB) July 25, 2023 -- ENGEO was selected as a winner at the annual CalGeo Outstanding Project awards in the Private-Large Category for their work on the Treasure Island Redevelopment Phase 1. These awards showcase the best geotechnical projects in the state, and winners are selected by a panel of peers that review the year’s finest projects within several categories.
This year, ENGEO submitted their work on the Treasure Island Redevelopment Phase 1 which focused on the new development plans for approximately 8,000 residential units, 250,000 square feet of retail space, 500 hotel rooms, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, a new intermodal transportation hub with a new ferry pier, a new marina, and approximately 300 acres of public parks and open space for the Bay Area’s Treasure Island.
In 2005, ENGEO was brought on as the Geotechnical Engineer of Record for the Treasure Island Redevelopment Project and, since then, has provided a wide range of services and utilized innovative approaches to address the unique characteristics of the island. Treasure Island features up to 180 feet of soil that poses a wide range of geologic hazards, including seismically induced liquefaction, long-term static consolidation settlements, and seismic instability of the shoreline and causeway that connects Treasure Island to Yerba Buena Island.
It was critically important for ENGEO to address the unique features of the island with a precise mitigation plan, including:
- Optimization of liquefaction hazard and lateral deformation through robust field explorations, state-of-the-art laboratory analyses, and advanced numerical modeling
- Mitigation of seismically induced liquefaction within the development footprint utilizing direct power compaction
- Utilization of state-of-the-art non-ergodic seismic hazard analysis for ground-motion optimization for vertical developments
- Implementation of 2- and 3-dimensional finite-element modeling to evaluate static and seismic soil-structure interaction
- Installation of an extensive instrumentation program to monitor the performance existing buildings potentially impacted by the geotechnical mitigation program
The resulting geotechnical mitigation program saved many millions of dollars and years of construction. Find out more about ENGEO’s award winning work on the redevelopment of Treasure Island here.
About ENGEO
Founded in 1971, ENGEO has helped companies and public agencies manage their project development risk, drive down construction costs, and improve schedules. ENGEO is an employee-owned firm of approximately 400 geotechnical and civil engineers, geologists, hydrologists, water resources engineers and other specialists. The company serves a diverse range of public and private clients on projects in transportation, infrastructure, water resources, geologic hazard abatement, flood control, disaster recovery, energy, residential and mixed-use communities. ENGEO has offices located in California, Nevada, Washington, Guam, New Zealand and Australia and has been consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in the Nation by Fortune and the Great Place to Work Institute, and as a Top Workplace in the Bay Area by San Francisco Business Times and Bay Area News Group.
Louie Sosa, Merlot Marketing, Inc., https://merlotmarketing.com/, 9162859835, [email protected]
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