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  605 - Jones Falls Sewershed

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Baltimore, MD City of Baltimore DPW Mixed Face (2) 23' x 48" & 72" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction Corporation installed two 23' parallel liner plate tunnels (48" & 72") underneath Falls Road for a sanitary sewer installation. 18" and 54" ductile iron pipe was installed and backfilled in the tunnels after completion. The tunnels passed directly underneath twin 66" x 84" storm culverts, installed through clay with boulders/shot rock overlaying partially weathered rock in... Complete Project Profile

  576 - CSX Transportation Howard St. Tunnel, Camden St. Drain Replacement

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Baltimore , MD CSX Transportation Soft Ground 68' x 48" & 32' x 66" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw completed this high profile project in downtown Baltimore, MD as part of a design-build team. An existing storm drain located in the invert of the Howard Street CSX Rail Tunnel had been the cause of frequent flooding. This project replaced that 48” storm drain with a larger, deeper siphon drain which eliminated the flooding and allows CSX to increase the depth of the existing tunnel... Complete Project Profile

  566 - N. St. Elmo Drainage System Upgrade

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Chattanooga, TN Mixed Face 332' x 84" & 250' x 75"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw constructed three tunnels as part of a stormwater sewer improvement project for the City of Chattanooga. Bradshaw originally intended to construct the 84" liner plate tunnels and 72" direct-jack FRP tunnel with conventional tunnel boring machines. However, the local foundry sand fill material contained numerous obstructions, with slag, bricks, reinforced concrete, glass and various trash... Complete Project Profile

  559 - Glenmont Rock Handmine

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Wheaton, MD Winchester Homes Rock 22' x 36" x 36"
SUMMARY: Our client had concerns about breaking rock with a hoe ram so close to an existing water main. Instead, Bradshaw installed two tunnels hand mined through rock under the existing water main. The first one went so well that a second tunnel was added after the first one was completed. The rock was removed via drilling and splitting with pneumatic breakers, and then a steel sleeve was installed as... Complete Project Profile

  558 - Condenser Water Piping Renewal, Building 7 (JHU / APL)

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Laurel, MD JHU Mixed Face 29' x 36" x 36"Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw installed two 36 inch x 36 inch wood box tunnels, 10 linear feet and 19 linear feet long respectively, as part of a project aimed at upgrading the infrastructure at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The woodbox tunnels were installed directly under two existing active corridors. The hand mined wood box technique was selected over auger boring due to the smaller work area, and the... Complete Project Profile

  555 - DLCO Bates Street Tunnel (Carson Circuit)

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Pittsburgh, PA City of Pittsburgh Mixed Face 58' x 53" x 52"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction Corp. has recently completed the installation of 58 linear feet of 48 inch wood box tunnel as part of Duquesne Light’s Carson Circuit Project in Pittsburgh, PA. The tunnel was hand mined under Bates Street in soil that consisted primarily of decomposed shale. Complete Project Profile

  539 - Liberty Heights Handmine

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Baltimore, MD City of Baltimore Rock 16' x 48" x 48"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw installed 16 linear feet of a 48 inch woodbox tunnel in rock under Hilton Street. The tunnel accommodated a new sewer line in a residential area of the City of Baltimore. Tunneling was preferred over open cut by both the owner and the general contractor due to the disturbance associated with open cut rock excavation. Complete Project Profile

  538 - Service Customer Built - DC-3rd & H Street, NW

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Washington, D.C. District of Columbia Soft Ground 16' x 48" x 48"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw installed approximately 16 feet of 48 inch woodbox tunnel and ductbank to connect an existing basement to an electrical vault in downtown Washington, DC. Tunneling was deemed a more suitable alternative to traditional trenching methods, because tunneling avoided disruption to road and pedestrian traffic, and eliminated the need to demolish and replace existing surface improvements. Complete Project Profile

  537 - Johns Hopkins Hospital Nelson Harvey Extension Enhancements, Wolfe Street

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins Hospital Mixed Face 85' x 48" x 48"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction was contracted to hand mine a 48 inch by 48 inch wood box tunnel to house a 10 inch polyvinyl chloride pipe and an 18 inch ductile iron pipe. Unanticipated rock was encountered during mining and was removed with pneumatic chisels and hammers. The tunnel was performed due to the close proximity of existing buildings and structures which did not allow for open cut... Complete Project Profile

  536 - Emergency Generator Replacement John Adams Building

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Washington D.C., The Architect of the Capitol Soft Ground 12' x 60" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw installed 12 linear feet of a 60 inch liner plate tunnel in sandy material under a security wall footing at the John Adams Building in downtown Washington, DC. The tunnel allowed for the connection of a new stormwater management structure to an existing manhole, without disruption to surface features or pedestrian traffic. Complete Project Profile

  529 - McMillian Stormwater Storage

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Washington D.C., DCW Soft Ground 35' x 72"Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction completed two shafts and a hand mine liner plate tunnel as part of a storm water overflow project in northwest Washington DC. As a result of flooding in the area, DC Water decided to convert a more than 100 year old sand filtration chamber into a storm water overflow basin. Bradshaw was subcontracted to install 28 vertical feet of 25 foot diameter shaft while working from... Complete Project Profile

  528 - Children's Hospital of Richmond Pavilion

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Richmond, VA VCU-CHoRP Soft Ground 180' x 96"-132" Ø
SUMMARY: As part of a design/build project, Bradshaw Construction constructed two utility tunnels for the extension to the Children's Hospital of Richmond. Excavation for the first tunnel consisted of 132 inch diameter liner plate with 96 inch reinforced concrete pipe as final lining. The ground conditions were lean clays overlaid with gravely sand in the crown. The second tunnel was for 96 inch liner... Complete Project Profile

  522 - Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring-Phase 1B

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Silver Spring, MD Holy Cross Hospital Rock 40' x 48" x 48"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw constructed a 48 inch by 48 inch (ID) wood box tunnel under the loading dock for the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. MD. The over all project was to expand the campus to include a new patient tower for 150 new private patient rooms, a four-level parking garage expansion to accommodate an additional 300 parking spaces, and the central utility plant serving the existing campus... Complete Project Profile

  498 - Lafayette Street Pedestrian Tunnel

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Tallahassee, FL FDOT Soft Ground 55' x 144 " Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction built a 55' long hand mine liner plate tunnel for Florida State University to prevent pedestrian overflow onto Lafayette Street after FSU football games. Bradshaw has a long history of building liner plate tunnels; what made this project unique was the active CSX railroad tracks only 6.5' overhead. Trains traveled over the tunnel many times per day during construction... Complete Project Profile

  486 - Kennesaw Pedestrian Tunnel

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Kennesaw, GA Kennesaw Pedestrian Tunnel Soft Ground 115' x 13' Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw hand tunneled 7 feet under a busy CSX Railroad serving Atlanta, GA to install 115 feet of 13 foot diameter tunnel with only 5'-7' of cover between the tunnel and the tracks. The tunnel supports were steel liner plate lined with epoxy paint. It was part of a new park celebrating railroad history and provided a much needed pedestrian underpass. Compensation grouting and real-time... Complete Project Profile

  476 - Kirkwood Road Tunnels

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Arlington, VA Dominion Power Mixed Face 276' x 48" x 48"
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction completed 276' of 48" x 48" hand-mined wood box tunnels for electrical conduit. The main challenges of the project were not known when the project began. The tunnels were supposed to be in soft ground, but partially complete with the first tunnel our crew encountered some hard rock. There was great difficulty in removing the rock for 25' of the tunnel without blasting or... Complete Project Profile

  471 - Suwanee Pedestrian Tunnel

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Suwanee, GA City of Suwanee Soft Ground 62' x 156 " Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction installed 62' of 156" steel liner plate tunnel by conventional hand mine methods through a railroad embankment for a pedestrian tunnel. Hand mine techniques were utilized to install the liner plate tunnel under an active Norfolk Southern Railroad with only 7' of cover. Mining took six days to complete, working around the clock. After completion of the excavation, a shotcrete... Complete Project Profile

  461 - Briar Creek Relief Sewer Phase 1B

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Charlotte, NC Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility Dept. Mixed Face 165' x 96" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw was contracted to install 165 linear feet of 60 inch fiber reinforced water main pipeline in South Charlotte, NC. The carrier pipe was housed within a 96" liner plate tunnel support system. This was part of Charlotte Utility Department's $1-Billion, 5-year, Capital Improvement Plan. Complete Project Profile

  457 - Battery Park Trunk Sewer Tunnel

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Richmond, VA City of Richmond Soft Ground 200' x 96" Ø
SUMMARY: As part of a new 3,400' by-pass sewer tunnel, Bradshaw also hand tunneled a total of 200’ of 96” liner plate for a 72” fiberglass storm sewer pipe. Each hand tunnel intersected the 144" rib and board tunnel for underground Y connections or was combined in three way manholes at the shafts. Just as for the primary by-pass tunnel, other major challenges were the extremely accelerated... Complete Project Profile

  449 - Sugar Creek WWTP Tunnel

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Charlotte, NC
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  443 - Route 262 CSX Crossing

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Staunton, VA VDOT Rock 75' x 120" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction installed a 10'Ø Hand Mined Liner Plate tunnel under CSX Railroad in Staunton, Virginia. The tunnel was excavated from a portal through Boulder Fill in the embankment of the railroad. Due to the voids in the fill, a cementitious grout curtain was pumped over the tunnel alignment before mining. In order to mitigate the risks settlement and the danger of mining through... Complete Project Profile

  412 - Hillen/Ashburton Plant Bypass Pipeline

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Baltimore, MD Baltimore City DPW Soft Ground 50' x 108" Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw hand mined 50 feet of 108 inch liner plate for a 66 inch PCCP sewer and an 8 inch DIP water main under the CSX Railroad. Ground conditions were residual soils of silts, sands and boulders and required hand mining techniques of face breasting and crown fore poling. Bradshaw also installed a 12’ x 24’ mining shaft. The key challenges were the boulder ground conditions, proximity to... Complete Project Profile

  405 - MD Route 32 Bridge Replacement

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Hand Tunneling Steel/Wood Sykesville, MD MD SHA Mixed Face 60' x 66"Ø
SUMMARY: Bradshaw Construction hand mined a 66 inch liner plate tunnel and installed a 48 inch reinforced concrete storm drain under a CSX Railroad. The removal of boulders during shaft and tunnel excavation required extreme care so as not to cause settlement of the railroad. Complete Project Profile



 

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