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Hub Foundation Company used a Bauer MC 96 Duty-Cycle Crane with a BC 35 Trench Cutter and a Bauer MAT DE 500-20 Slurry Handling System to put in the foundations for a residential tower at Bullfinch Crossing in Boston.

The C. William Bermingham Innovation Award, established in 2012 to honor Bill Bermingham and his contributions, encourages and recognizes unique and innovative offerings to the deep foundations industry.

Honor goes to cofounder of Pile Dynamics Inc. for industry contributions.

Klug and Associates president, VP of COWI will co-chair group.

Winning project is 181 Fremont Tower, a mixed-use high-rise.

John A. “Jack” Hayes, PE, D.I.C. is a widely recognized authority on Osterberg cell (O-cell) testing, a method of evaluating the integrity of drilled piles. We spoke to Hayes at this year’s Osterberg Memorial Lecture at the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo (IFCEE).

Hillside homes and structures have presented a particular challenge for some of our customers. Accessing the ideal location on the steep slope with equipment that’s powerful enough to complete the task can be problematic enough, and, for contractors who prefer to own their equipment and complete this type of work in-house, affordable options are even more difficult to come by.

The navigational lock system for the dam, built during the New Deal civil construction boom of the later 1930s and early ’40s, accommodates 600-foot barges. Drillers are helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open up that bottleneck to barges twice that size.