PILING

Installing 240ft drilled shafts with a barge-mounted Bauer drill rig

Brian M. Fraley gives GDI an insight into how North American contractor George Harms Construction Company used a barge-mounted Bauer BG 55 rig to install 8ft diameter shafts up to 240ft deep

 Harms set up the BG 55, polymer slurry tanks, and all other necessary equipment and materials on custom-designed Flexifloat barges adjacent to the existing bridge

Harms set up the BG 55, polymer slurry tanks, and all other necessary equipment and materials on custom-designed Flexifloat barges adjacent to the existing bridge

George Harms Construction Company continued work on the replacement of the Raritan River Bridge on a frigid January day as a major winter storm barrelled toward New Jersey, USA. This determination, along...

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