Design for Rapid Levee Construction Shaves Off Decade in Schedule

摘要

Dwayne Smith, a senior engineer at URS Corp., San Francisco, is a geotechnical program manager on a levee enlargement project in New Orleans that is shaving a decade off the time it normally takes to build and consolidate such a structure. Archer Western Contractors Ltd., Atlanta, holds the $114.9-million contract to deliver the 7.54-mile stretch of what will be some of the most massive earthen levees in the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System.