Muskegon Community College (MCC) recently began work renovating several building on their Western Michigan campus. One challenging renovation was the addition of a new elevator in the Student Union ...

At 97 feet, IDX Tower’s excavation was one of Seattle’s deepest. Two shoring walls were required to support the YMCA building, which forms a “reentrant” corner on the site. The IDX Tower excavation ...

Comparatively, a steel trench shield 28 feet long rated for an excavation up to 30 feet deep weighs over 15,000 pounds, but well within the capacity of a typical sized track excavator that a ...

The key to safe excavations between 5 and 20 feet deep is that the work be supervised closely by a trained, competent person. (Trenches 20 feet or deeper require a safety system devised by a ...

Build Safe UAE (BSU) is set to hold talks with RAK Municipality next week to learn more about the unsafe shoring of excavations after a fatality took place in the emirate. Meanwhile, the Dubai ...

Safe Excavation Work Essentials Workers frequently aren't aware of the hazard potential and are not properly trained to identify safety issues. By Stephen V. Magyar, Jr., MBA, CSP Mar 01, 2006 ...