With industrial design features, 10 Farnsworth Street celebrates the history of its Fort Point neighborhood. The six-story building houses ground-level retail, eight loft-style condominiums sharing access to a rooftop amenity deck, and one...
East Texas Electric Cooperative (ETEC) commissioned construction of a new hydroelectric plant at the site of the fifty-year-old Lake Livingston Dam, an approximately 2.5 mi earthen embankment that impounds a water supply reservoir. The project...
The Charlestown Bus Facility along the Mystic River is the MBTA’s largest bus garage and critical to daily operations. The existing steel sheet pile seawall, which protects the facility from flooding and river erosion, was severely...
The Mobile Press Register building, which houses newspaper printing and processing operations, is near the Mobile River and Mobile Bay. The owner wanted to protect their critical equipment from flooding during extreme events to avoid significant...
The Artist Building at 300 Summer Street, originally constructed in 1898, was converted to cooperative residences/art studios in the 1990s. Current flood maps show the building is vulnerable to coastal flooding and rising sea levels may increase...
In the summer of 2014, a high-intensity rainfall in Cambridge surcharged the city’s stormwater drainage system, resulting in localized flooding near a basement-level retail space. The floodwaters overtopped the sidewalk and flowed down the...
Belmont Municipal Light Department (BMLD) needed to upgrade their aging substation and power distribution system to improve reliability and prepare for future demands. Working with Eversource, the area’s electric service provider, BMLD...
Constructed in 1929, historic Krieger Hall sits on the Keyser Quadrangle at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). It connects to Ames Hall through a vestibule and colonnade walkway to the west and adjoins an elevated plaza over the library to the east...
In the summer of 2014, the City of Boston was developing plans to improve pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic in the congested West End and North End neighborhoods. The project included replacing existing sidewalks and curbs around the...
Looking to modernize their library facilities, the University of Baltimore planned to renovate the existing Langsdale Library and construct a new library building. SGH assessed the flood risk for the library building complex, housing a...
As with many structures, understanding issues with design, construction, and material performance for artificial turf fields can help inform investigations and repair design when these systems do not perform as expected.
Artificial turf field construction has increased significantly during the last three decades. A new field is a significant investment for an owner; however, drainage problems resulting in ponding water on the surface of the field can be a source...
Abstract: Waste disposal sites require subsurface gravity pipe systems to collect waste leachate and safely convey it to treatment and disposal facilities. As the availability of suitable land for waste disposal sites decreases and the cost to...
Abstract: Use of underground stormwater collection systems has increased in recent years because of regulatory mandates to retain, recharge, and/or reuse stormwater onsite. Because of advantages in economics and constructability, the stormwater...
Abstract: Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls for construction projects can fail for various reasons, but it is most commonly due to poor water management behind and above the wall. These structures are typically created without...
Abstract: Plastic pipe has been used for many years in applications to control surface water runoff by detention, retention, and infiltration. Review of deficiencies with available pipe geometries resulted in creation of a new product,...