Posted: 5/6/2009 9:13:39 AM EDT
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Does anybody know where this happened? I searched the date on the 3rd photo and didn't come up with anything. http://jubed.com/jokes/view/Never-go-with-the-cheapest-quote     |
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(site foreman on the phone) Uh, boss, you remember all that equipment that was at the bottom of the hole we dug? Do you happen to know if we have insurance on it? Oh, we do? Good. "Yeah, I know it was supposed to be a five story building, turns out we had the blue prints upside down." |
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Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. |
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Quoted: Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. While the rest of us are thinking someone got fired, Keith_J has determined who was fired, why he was fired and which contactor is gonna lose their ass. |
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Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. +1 The first pic looks like it is coming directly out of the containmet wall. They probably should have been conservative and done a coffer dam instead of concrete... |
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Look at the water level of the main body of water in the last pic. You'd think it would have dropped some due to all the water that was displaced. Looks like Dubai or somewhere like it by terrain/trees/massive construction/vague feeling. Boats in that main body. So I gussed that main body is connected to the ocean or something. |
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Quoted: Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. I was just wondering where it happened geographically, not where it happened in the picture.  Great Post though! Kept me lost in wiki for a while.  |
Holy crap. | I started to think it was in Chicago with the Chicago River, they've had a few issues with the river in the past. Then I saw the palm trees. Nope, not Chicago. Although Chicago and New York both have a lot of uncharted underground utilities, tunnels, failing pipes, etc. Kind of surprising it doesn't happen more often. |
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You know..I think that city is in Asia somewhere...that river reminds me of a TV show I saw once on the Science or Discovery Channel about a city in Asia that had a river that ran through it, it had something to do about a skyscraper that was going to be built and how the river and surrounding soil was soft and they had to design this building for those conditions.
Maybe Indonesia...I can't remember... |
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Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. While the rest of us are thinking someone got fired, Keith_J has determined who was fired, why he was fired and which contactor is gonna lose their ass. your a funny fucker! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. +1 The first pic looks like it is coming directly out of the containmet wall. They probably should have been conservative and done a coffer dam instead of concrete... Sheet pile coffer dams are damn hard to drive into sand.  . They are best when used into clays. But they will need to use this method here as it can be done submerged.
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Quoted: Quoted: Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. While the rest of us are thinking someone got fired, Keith_J has determined who was fired, why he was fired and which contactor is gonna lose their ass. LMAO. It also looks like the top of the wall was precast, held in place with wide flange piling  |
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Looks like the slurry wall failed. What is a slurry wall? It is a concrete wall cast into a trench that is cut through non-consolidated soil. Because the ground is too weak to support trench walls, the trench is filled with a mud which provides resistance to trench collapse. When the wall is poured, concrete is delivered to the bottom of the trench with a tremmie pipe. The concrete is denser than the slurry so the mud is displaced out of the trench. While the rest of us are thinking someone got fired, Keith_J has determined who was fired, why he was fired and which contactor is gonna lose their ass. Isn't that what Engineers are supposed to do? |
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After following a long chain of links from the one above, I can't find new information on the status of the "Twisty Tower". The latest was a picture of the pond, with a statement that there would take one year to get back to where they were. That was posted in 2007. Anybody know how they fixed it/solved it, or what happened next? |
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After following a long chain of links from the one above, I can't find new information on the status of the "Twisty Tower". The latest was a picture of the pond, with a statement that there would take one year to get back to where they were. That was posted in 2007. Anybody know how they fixed it/solved it, or what happened next? They resumed construction in July of last year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Tower |
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Quoted: Quoted: LMAO. It also looks like the top of the wall was precast, held in place with wide flange piling My translation of that is "Jersey Barriers held up by I-Beams", is that correct? Pretty much that. Wide flange is like I-beams, only wider  . This was done as the slurry wall wasn't tall enough. Panels were cast, then slid down the spaces between the wide flanges. The wide flange piling was driven before the slurry wall was cast. |