joispoi
Senior Member
I looked at a job for one of my customers this morning. The objective is to add more loading docks to a shipping warehouse. The work involved requires removing 5 bays from their current locations and then installing 12 new bays. That's the straight forward part
There's nothing particularly complicated about it, but there's an area that I need to dig out next to a recently paved parking lot. The soil is sandy and I don't have enough room to slope back the face of the cut between where I have to put in a new footing and the parking area that's about 4 feet higher and right up against the cut.
The wall in the picture needs to slide 3 feet to the left. The parking area above was recently paved and must be conserved.
What's my best option for stabilizing the cut so that the bank doesn't collapse and damage the asphalt? The soil is pretty much pure sand. There's about 60 feet of wall to replace. It's around 4 feet at the lowest point and comes up to grade at the top of the ramp as can be seen in the picture.
I'm not set up for sheet piling. The biggest machine I have is a 5 ton mini.
One idea that comes to mind is lime injection soil stabilization before I dig. Has anybody tried this approach or have a different idea?
There's nothing particularly complicated about it, but there's an area that I need to dig out next to a recently paved parking lot. The soil is sandy and I don't have enough room to slope back the face of the cut between where I have to put in a new footing and the parking area that's about 4 feet higher and right up against the cut.
The wall in the picture needs to slide 3 feet to the left. The parking area above was recently paved and must be conserved.
What's my best option for stabilizing the cut so that the bank doesn't collapse and damage the asphalt? The soil is pretty much pure sand. There's about 60 feet of wall to replace. It's around 4 feet at the lowest point and comes up to grade at the top of the ramp as can be seen in the picture.
I'm not set up for sheet piling. The biggest machine I have is a 5 ton mini.
One idea that comes to mind is lime injection soil stabilization before I dig. Has anybody tried this approach or have a different idea?