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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... |

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| 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... |
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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... |
 
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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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... |
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Tanana
River Bridge #505, Tok, Alaska
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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Oxy Elk Hills, Bakersfield, CA
The Elk Hills Field, located in Kern County 25 miles east of Bakersfield and 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is one of the United States largest natural gas and oil producing fields... |
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West
Elm Store, Emeryville, 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... |
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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... |
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1521
Second Avenue - Opus Northwest, Seattle, WA
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... |
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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... |
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Slick
Creek Rentention Reservoir, Shasta County, CA
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... |
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The Palazzo Resort Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Malcolm Drilling Company, Inc. was awarded a design build Secant Pile Wall excavation support system which encompassed an 11-acre site that would accommodate a 52-story Hotel/Casino/Resort (Venetian’s 2nd Tower, “The Palazzo”) over a 3-level underground parking garage.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Port
of Tacoma, 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.... |
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Sound Transit U230, Seattle, WA
In 1996 the citizens of Seattle approved a new mass transit system that would connect Seattle — Tacoma International Airport with the University of Washington... |
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Terremark Data Center, Santa Clara, CA
Malcolm Drilling was awarded the design build contract to install a
foundation system for the new Terramark Data Center in Santa Clara, CA
in the beginning of May 2011.... |
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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... |
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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 Franciscos Mission district.... |
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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... |
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Bravern
Phase 1 & 2, Bellevue, WA
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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