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ASCE COPRI Seattle Chapter Monthly Dinner Meeting - Feb 24, 2015

Topic: Permanent Canal Closures and Pumping, USACE Project / New Orleans, Louisiana. 2013-2017

The presentation will provide an overview of an ongoing project to construct three new high capacity pump stations on the main drainage canals of New Orleans at 17th Street, London Avenue, and Orleans Canal. The project is a design build effort for the Corps of Engineers ($680M), with Kiewit/Traylor/MR Pittman as the construction Joint Venture, and Stantec Consulting as the Designer. PND is a subcontractor to Stantec for temporary works, and support of excavation. The pump stations are the capstone of effort for Post Hurricane Katrina reconstruction and increased flood projection for New Orleans. Topics for the presentation will include the historical background to the project, and a high level summary of the challenges to design/construct deep cofferdams in the soft ground of New Orleans under the design/build contract delivery method.

Speaker
Mike Huggins, Principal, PND Engineers

the marine heavy-civil construction business, and served as the Chief Engineer of General Construction Company ( now Kiewit Bridge and Marine) from 1998 to 2003. Following a year with Tacoma Narrows Constructors, he joined PND in 2003 and continues to work with national and regional contractors to solve construction engineering problems inherent while building complex marine and bridge structures.