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RECENTLY ADDED PROJECT

COMPACTION GROUTING, SOIL MIXING, SECANT PILES

Compaction Grouting

Lake Merced Pump Station, San Francisco, CA

Malcolm Drilling Co. Inc. (MDCI) installed over 1,600 individual compaction grouting points at the operating Lake Merced water pump station site...

RECENTLY ADDED PROJECT
FEATURED PROJECT

Port of Tacoma, WA

Project raises Lincoln Avenue over key railroad tracks in the Port area, removing the at-grade conflict between rail activities and heavy vehicular traffic....

 

FEATURED PROJECT
Doyle Drive Viaduct

Doyle Drive Viaduct, San Francisco

The existing south access road to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, known as Doyle Drive or Route 101, is structurally and seismically unsafe and requires replacement...drilled shafts

FEATURED PROJECT

Huey P. Long Bridge, New Orleans

The historic Huey P. Long Bridge is a through truss which will be widened with an additional truss on either side of the existing structure...

FEATURED PROJECT

EXPRESSLINK Salt Lake City, UT

EXPRESSLink will increase capacity to I-5 by adding express lanes in each direction from 500 North to the north interchange in Davis County...

 

FEATURED PROJECT

Benicia Martinez Bridge, Carquinez Strait

Permanent Steel Casings were installed through the water (depths over 60 ft), and soil into bedrock...

RECENTLY ADDED PROJECT
VIBRO REPLACEMENT, STONE COLUMNS
Drilled Shafts

Interstate 15, South Layton, Utah

Stone columns are a ground improvement method which involves replacing in-situ material with an aggregate such as 3/4 inch crushed rock. This replacement process not only densifies the surrounding material through displacement, but also through settlement due to vibration...

RECENTLY ADDED PROJECT
JET GROUTING, MEGA-JET
Drilled Shafts

Sound Transit U230, Seattle, WA

Stone columns are a ground improvement method which involves replacing in-situ material with an aggregate such as 3/4 inch crushed rock. This replacement process not only densifies the surrounding material through displacement, but also through settlement due to vibration...

DRILLED SHAFTS
Drilled Shafts

Victoria Island Conveyance Canal Pipeline

Victoria Island Conveyance Canal Pipeline near Discovery Bay, CA, Malcolm Drilling constructed access shafts for micro-tunneling a 96" diameter pipe under the Old River...

Drilled Shafts

Stanford Stadium, Stanford University

Minutes after the completion of their last home game of the 2005 season, demolition commenced on the existing stadium structure in order to rebuild a new stadium complex...

Drilled Shafts

W2 Tower Foundation - Yerba Buena Island

Malcolm Drilling was selected to help construct the W2 tower foundation (composed of 4 large diameter shafts) located on Yerba Buena Island for the new Bay Bridge. The drill rig, a Casagrande C-60 weighing over 260,000 lbs was disassembled into 3 major sub-assembles and lowered into the new footing and reassembled...

Drilled Shafts

Pelli Towers, Las Vegas, NV

Malcolm Drilling was selected on the basis of cost and schedule to construct the drilled shaft foundations on several hotel/condominium towers on the City Center Project...Malcolm Drilling utilized four Bauer BG-40 drill rigs, working 12 hours per day...

Drilled Shafts

Echelon Towers, Las Vegas, NV

Tishman Contractors and Boyd Gaming selected Malcolm Drilling to utilize its state of the art fleet of top drive hydraulic drill rigs to construct the foundation piles for the 3,300 room Echelon Resort, encompassing two upscale hotels, a 2,600 room Resort Tower and a 700-room Suite Tower...

Drilled Shafts

Mid City Expo, Culver City, CA

The project consists of:
5 each – 15’ Ø CIDH Pilings
6 each – 11’ Ø CIDH Pilings
12 each – 12’ Ø CIDH Pilings
15 each – 2’ Ø CIDH Pilings
more details here...

OSCILLATOR / ROTATOR SHAFTS
Drilled Shafts

SR-519 Project, Seattle, WA

The State Route 519 is a crucial connection from I-5 and I-90 to the waterfront for cars and freight. The project will rechannel, widen and improve the First Avenue and South Atlantic Street intersection in Seattle....

Drilled Shafts

Elwha River Bridge, Port Angeles, WA

Malcolm Drilling constructed four 3M diameter drilled shafts for the Elwha River Bridge near Port Angeles, WA utilizing a 3M Leffer oscillator and a Liebherr 883 dig crane. Support was provided by a Link Belt LS-218 service crane. The shafts were constructed to depths up to 82’ in river cobbles and boulders...

Drilled Shafts

Peace Arch Design/Build Project, Border Crossing at Blaine, WA

Malcolm Drilling constructed the shafts for the Northbound I-5 Peace Arch Border Crossing project in Blaine, WA in 2008 utilizing oscillator equipment. 12EA 2.2M diameter shafts were constructed by advancing temporary oscillator casing with a 2.5M oscillator attached to a Liebherr 883 dig crane excavating the shafts to a depth of 170’...

Drilled Shafts

Tanana River Bridge #505

Malcolm Drilling furnished and installed 10’ diameter permanent steel casing at five (5) shaft locations with Leffer 3050 oscillator equipment on this project: one pier location was on land, two were installed on a sand island constructed in the river, and two were installed from a work trestle and finger piers constructed over the river...

 
Drilled Shafts

I-5/SR502 Interchange, Vancouver, WA

Malcolm Drilling furnished and installed 9’ diameter permanent steel casing at six (6) shaft locations with Leffer 3m oscillator equipment on this project: four pier locations were installed from existing grade, and two were installed from a sheetpile supported workbench and finger piers constructed over the edge of the work bench...

Drilled Shafts

Cypress Ave Bridge, Redding, CA

In March of 2007, Malcolm Drilling Co. Inc. was contracted to perform the drilled shaft work for a bridge replacement over the Sacramento River in Redding, CA. In total 28 shafts with 8 ft. diameter and up to a 92 ft. depth were required...

 
AUGERCAST PILES
Augercast Piles

West Elm Store, Emeryville

In March of 2007, Malcolm Drilling Co. Inc. was contracted to perform the drilled shaft work for a bridge replacement over the Sacramento River in Redding, CA. In total 28 shafts with 8 ft. diameter and up to a 92 ft. depth were required...

 
EXCAVATION SUPPORT
Excavation Support

5th & Yesler, Seattle, WA

5th and Yesler was awarded to MDCI through the competitive bid process in the spring of 2006. The excavation, located in the area of Seattle known as Goat Hill, was constructed through a series of benches due to the steep slopes which surrounded the site...

 
Excavation Support

1521 Second Avenue - Opus Northwest

Malcolm Drilling was approached to perform this shoring out project in the Spring of 2003. In the summer of 2006 the job was underway. The existing site conditions left little to be desired. Within the top 15' of soil lie the demolition debris left behind from the old Liberty Theatre...

 
SOIL-NAILS/V-NAILS
Soils-Nails/V-Nails

State Street, Kirkland, WA

The State Sreet Project was as diversified as any project in terms of multiple shoring systems utilized in efforts to reduce project cost and enhance performance benefits. Permanent Cantilever retaining walls up to 24' in height were utilized for the east property line...

 
SECANT PILE WALLS
Secant Pile Walls

499 Illinois St., San Francisco, CA

SCOPE OF WORK: Excavation support & Protection and Permanent Ground Anchors.

CHALLENGES:
Man-made Obstruction (old timber pilings)
Socket beams into rock...

 
CUTTER MIX WALLS
Cutter Mix Walls

635 Elliott Street, Seattle, WA

Malcolm Drilling provided the owner with a Value Engineering solution to the original shoring concept which resulted in a savings to the owner of $ 1,500,000. This revised concept utilized CSM ( Cutter Soil Mixing ) techniques to provide a continuous secant wall for the shoring system...

 
SLOPE STABILIZATION
Slope Stabilization

Slick Creek Rentention Reservoir

Project consisted of stabilization of right abutment slope utilizing 200 permanent double corrosion protected strand anchors. Anchors consisted of 24 strands in 6’’ fully cased hole with total length of 130 to 200 ft through slide debris. Bond length in rock was 35 ft. Design load for anchors was 275 Kips...

 
OMEGA PILES
Omega Piles

Hotel Avia, Long Beach, California

Hotel Avia is located in Long Beach about 2 blocks from the water. The soil is sandy, becoming very dense about 40 feet below existing grade. The original design was for 24 inch CIDH Piles 60 ft deep. We offered a value engineering design using displacement piles that saved about $1.5 million on the foundation system...

 
Omega Piles

ARE Parcel 3+4, 1600 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA

In 2008, Malcolm Drilling Co. Inc. designed and installed over six hundred 18-inches OMEGA piles in California using a novel design concept. Possible ground contamination and vibration free installation was required on this typical re-claimed (Brown Field) construction site in San Francisco’s Mission district....Drilled Shafts

 
DEWATERING
Dewatering

Block 75, Salt Lake City, UT

Malcolm Drilling was selected as the shoring contractor for Block 75 of the City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, UT. Block 75 was the center of the 3 city block Property...

 
Dewatering

Bravern Phase 1 & 2

Although the project broke ground in the early summer of 2006, the conception date for MDCI occurred 10 years previous. The construction of a 91' deep soil nail wall within a 7 acre footprint was a challenge, but considering this excavation was 46' below the existing water table raised concerns which were difficult to argue...

 
 
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