UMA Geotechnical Construction

 UMA proposed to the owner and the design team that a 4600sq.ft permanent soil nail wall with reinforced shotcrete facing was required since a 3:1 slope to connect the building with the grading below the MSE wall was impossible
GROUND CONTROL

Uncommon MSE wall failure calls for unique geotechnical solutions

Constantly changing conditions caused the need for flexible project planning and new ideas on site

02 November 2022

 The Beretta T46 drilling rig used by UMA was equipped with a down-the-hole hammer with a 4-1/2in bit to drill rock sockets
GROUND CONTROL

UMA goes deep to anchor Georgia pump station

A confined working space was one of the problems UMA had to overcome on a recent soil nailing job

21 September 2021

 UMA used duplex drilling to advance both casing and drill steel into each hole simultaneously to keep them from collapsing at a ground anchoring project in the Winston-Salem area
GROUND CONTROL

UMA preserves vital retaining wall structures for US bridge demolition

Examining how UMA Geotechnical employed duplex drilling on a challenging anchoring project

21 July 2021

 UMA used its speciality Casagrande C7 XP-2 Crawler Drilling Rig to drill all micropiles to 70 feet through a formation called the Cooper Marl
PILING

UMA supports South Carolina manufacturer's expansion with micropiles

How one contractor faces up to the challenges of an ever changing micropiling job

24 February 2021

 UMA Geotechnical Construction’s work on the NCDOT I-26 Exit 40 to I-40 Interstate Expansion Project is on track to become the largest square footage of soil nail walls done under a single contract in NCDOT history
GROUND CONTROL

UMA to break NCDOT record for largest square footage of soil nail wall

A US contractor is on track to construct roughly 115,610sqft of soil nail wall along Interstate 26

11 February 2021

 UMA Geotechnical Construction constructed all of the eight required permanent soil nail walls on the Greensboro Western Loop (Interstate 73) project in North Carolina
GROUND CONTROL

UMA scales up production on unusually large soil nail wall

How did UMA Geotechnical Construction deal with 76,000sqft of soil nailing for a single project

17 September 2020

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