An Army Corps of Engineers contractor is driving new sheet piling along 1,359 feet of floodwalls just south of Interstate 10 on the Metairie side of the 17 th Street Canal, and along nearly 4,000 feet ...
Driven vertically into the ground, interlocking metal plates known as sheet piles can keep soil from eroding after rainfall, they can serve as retaining walls on slopes, or perform other functions.
The productivity, mobility and flexibility of Liebherr's LRB 125 is enabling ASAP Installations LLC to enhance its reputation for quick, economical sheet piling installation. ASAP Installations LLC, ...
A section of metal sheet piling at the 17th Street Canal, which was being used to build a temporary staging area for the construction of a new pumping station, toppled over Monday. No one was injured.
In Venice, all eyes are on dramatic work at three lagoon inlets to hold back flood tides that repeatedly assault the historic Italian city. But along the mainland shore, engineers from the same ...
NEW ORLEANS -- The Corps of Engineers says a section of sheet piling collapsed near the mouth of the 17th Street Canal on Monday because an excavator lost its grip as it was about to install a wall to ...
Work on the Eighty Seven Park condo development project was temporarily halted one morning in March 2016 by the developer’s seismologist, who worried vibration levels from sheet pile driving were “too ...
Roboticists have developed a robot named 'Romu' that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil. The structures that it builds could function as retaining walls or check dams for ...