Project Profiles

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The WYNN- Las Vegas, Nevada

The demolition of the famous Desert Inn made way for the luxurious Wynn Las Vegas, a $2.7 billion luxury hotel and destination casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip. The Wynn officially opened to the public on April 28,...

Panama- Country Profile

In 2002, when LOATEST performed the first full scale load tests in the Cucaracha Formation, engineers in Panama knew that they had discovered a very special and valuable technology. Although testing at the Centenario Bridge over the Panama Canal was...

Chicago Spire ENR Article

The Chicago Spire, slated to be the Americas’ tallest building at 2,000 ft, probably won’t set any world records for height.......

Triple-Level O-cell® Technology on the Missouri River, Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge

Named in honor of the pioneering aviator, the Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge, spanning the Missouri River near her birthplace in Atchison, KS, was built in 1938. Nearing the end of its service life, the steel cantilever truss structure is slated...

Cooper River Bridge - SC

The Cooper River Bridge is the longest suspension bridge on the east coast of the United States. Contractors constructed more than 400 drilled shafts to support the 2.5 mile bridge from Charleston S.C. to Mt. Pleasant S.C. spanning the Cooper...

Centenario Bridge - Panama

The Panama Canal is famous as a unique shipping link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The fantastic engineering challenges surmounted during the construction, coupled with the heroic human effort, only adds to the bridges notoriety. Although the 80 km...

Augercast Piles (ACIP) & Osterberg Cells

LOADTEST has successfully installed and tested several Augercast, or CFA piles, using Osterberg Cells on what are believed to be the largest Augercast piles constructed in North America. Many of the augercast projects have required auger cast piles to...

Mississippi River Bridge - MS

With more than 2-1/2 miles of bridge deck, two concrete towers soaring 425 feet (130m) feet above the Mississippi River, concrete piers anchored 120 feet (36m) into the riverbed and four fans of prestressing strand steel cable, the new USHighway...

T-REX - Denver CO

The Transportation Expansion Project, also known as T-REX. The project is a landmark collaborative effort between the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Regional Transportation District (RTD) and is shaped by extensive public input from across the metro Denver area....