Category: Newsletter

Foundation for Warriors, by Warriors

San Francisco, California With our Chase Center project in San Francisco Malcolm proves that foundation contractors too, are warriors. Aggressive scheduling and flexible teams have been working hard to keep…

Diaphragm Wall at the Beach

Pacifica, California A Wet Weather Equilization (EQ) Basin is being constructed in the city of Pacifica to mitigate storm-related sanitary sewer overflows. Malcolm is in the early stages of installing…

Tangent Pile Wall Success

Fraser, Michigan When an 11-foot diameter sewer interceptor collapsed on Christmas Eve in Fraser, Michigan, an entire subdivision was displaced, three homes were condemned and a major roadway closed. The…

D-Wall

Portland, Oregon We recently completed our first D-Wall project in Oregon. “D-Wall” is short for diaphragm wall, which is a reinforced concrete wall excavated under bentonite slurry. This wall was…

Collaboration

Tampa, Florida The Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel expansion is a high-profile project that will add a new hotel tower and additional gaming space to the existing establishment. We…

Complexity

San Francisco, California Our Block 9 project in San Francisco presents a well-planned and well-executed approach to support of excavation (SOE) on an extremely challenging site. At 6-stories deep, this…

Football

Los Angeles, California The Inglewood Stadium in Los Angeles was originally designed on drilled shafts ranging between 24 and 72-inches in diameter. Despite having plenty of real estate around the…

Setting Standards

Excavation Stabilization Near the Great Salt Lake With flexible design intended to adapt to the changing aviation industry, the Salt Lake City International Airport Redevelopment Project has set the standard…

Drilling Deeper

Oceanwide Center Update Malcolm recently completed the installation of one method and two full scale load test shafts. All shafts were drilled into bedrock with the deepest hole reaching 324…

Breaking Records with Oceanwide

Malcolm Drilling Awarded One of the Largest Foundation Contracts in San Francisco Malcolm Drilling Company Inc. will soon be putting their foundation expertise to work on the billion plus Oceanwide…

Expanding the Blue

Driven by industry demand for more ground improvement technologies, such as soil mixing, jet grouting, vibro compaction, and slurry wall construction, Malcolm has expanded its ground improvement competencies to all…

Mountain West Debut

Salt Lake City, Utah Redevelopment of the Salt Lake City International Airport has been under way for a couple of years now and is on track for completion in 2020….

Smooth Shoring

Seattle, Washington In the heart of the rapidly expanding South Lake neighborhood of Seattle, a 40-story mixed-use high-rise with four levels of underground parking is well under way and on…

Night Shift

Fremont, California The Niles Boulevard Bridge, which spans the Union Pacific Railroad and BART tracks at the Fremont/Union City border, was in need of a seismic retrofit after the Loma…

Beach Bridge

Santa Barbara, California The Goleta Slough serves as the only access to a local beach in Santa Barbara that hosts more than 1 million visitors per year. Constructing a bridge…

All In One

San Francisco, California Malcolm was selected by Swinerton Builders to provide a shoring, dewatering, and ground improvement package for the 505 Brannan project site, located just three blocks from the…

Creativity Wins

Santa Monica, California This sustainable, adaptive reuse project will transform a long-abandoned assembly line manufacturing facility (a former Paper Mate pen factory) into a multi-tenant creative workplace. Inspired by the…

Loose Gravel

Tacoma, Washington The M-Street project widens northbound and southbound of I-5 through Tacoma by adding a new northbound I-5 bridge over the I-705 interchange. Malcolm was awarded both the large…

Punching It Out

Sunnyvale, California A well-known tech company is building a new campus for their expanding workforce just outside of San Jose. Our Ground Improvement Division was contacted to provide a design/build…

Going Deep II

Miami, Florida The Southeast District Office of Malcolm Drilling recently completed the installation of a pile load test program for the Block G project in Downtown Miami. Block G is…

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