On a construction site, a worker was suddenly pulled into a sinkhole when the ground beneath a caisson failed. The cause wasn’t visible from the surface, but groundwater pressure had built up below.

The U.S. Navy has issued a preliminary presolicitation notice for a major contracting program tied to the Shipyard ...

A massive multi-phase project will build a new dry dock and overhaul key infrastructure at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

As the U.S. Navy advances a planned $10-billion dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, new documents reveal four major construction packages and phasing.

A man made energy island rises in the North Sea, designed to collect wind power and reshape how Europe moves electricity ...

“caissons,” which are huge concrete boxes in the sea! A caisson is a massive box about the size of an entire apartment building. Floating it on the sea, transporting it, and sinking it perfectly into ...

THREE60 Energy, Innovair, and Oil States are pleased to announce a strategic alliance to deliver integrated solutions for caisson integrity management in the global oil and gas sector. The ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. — When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) faced a seemingly impossible challenge last winter — design and build a removable, 10,000-square-foot equine ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Army Military District of Washington hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall for its interim stables for the Caisson Detachment during ...

Laterally loaded large diameter caissons that exhibit rigid body motion are often analyzed by modeling the soil as equivalent springs. Equivalent soil spring stiffness is usually developed empirically ...

Building bridges over rivers requires dry conditions using cofferdams or caissons. Cofferdams are watertight enclosures of interlocked steel sheets, while caissons are waterproof structures for deeper ...