Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust foundation improvement

摘要

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust needed a foundation improvement solution for its new and innovative earth-sheltered facility. Jon Irvine, the project engineer, of Irvine Geotechnical Inc., suggested using a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) mattress as an affordable alternative to overexcavation and replacement. Schedule, performance and cost were significant project drivers, but the overriding concern was the potential effects of total and differential settlement caused by subsurface conditions or seismic events. Any foundation approach would have to meet the project's compaction requirement while also minimizing differential settlement.