Wayne Wolski was jarred awake early Thursday by what sounded like a jackhammer outside his window. It turned out the deafening noise was from crews driving piles about two miles away on the Highway ...

On December 8, 2011, the massive eight-hammer vibratory pile driver hammer dubbed the "Octakong" drove the last of 120, 72-ft.-diameter steel piles into place in front of a crowd of over 200 people ...

Reconstructing and widening 2.5 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, building piers for the 14-span I-95 flyover ramp, replacing three mainline bridges, constructing a four-span bridge and repairing ...

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When the giant hammer strikes, foreman Tommy Green clamps his mouth shut so his teeth won't rattle. Swamy Avasarala, an engineer, feels each blow oscillating up and down his spine, bone by bone. Ted ...

PORT ANGELES — Pile-driving began Wednesday on the Navy’s $25.6 million pier project on Ediz Hook. Not that city residents, going about their business downtown on the other side of Port Angeles Harbor ...

EVERETT — The Port of Everett is preparing for an economic boom, but for now you’ll just have to settle for the sounds of booms. A $36 million project is underway to strengthen the port’s largest ...

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.