Dockbuilders and a pile driving inspector watch closely as a 36-inch diameter pile is driven
home to bedrock with an ICE I-62 impact hammer
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
was to cast the panels on barges at Trevcon’s waterfront facility,
T-Port, in Elizabeth, N.J.
“We set up three barges,” said Foltiny. “Each barge was used as a
platform to cast three of the panels. Once the panels were cast, the
barges were tugged directly to site and lifted and placed into position,
meaning each had to be picked only once.”
The panels were designed so large (and interconnected),
explains Ellman, “to make the structure perform with minimal
movement under the wind and wave loads. The precast panels
and the piles were sized to provide the lateral stiffness required
for the platform; the overburden soils were not stiff enough to
provide sufficient lateral load resistance. This created the challenge
of heavy lifts and installations to very tight tolerances.”
Challenging as it may be, the Pier 26 project is an exciting development
for New York City.
“This will be unlike anything that has been built in New York,”
said Hudson River Park Trust president Madelyn Wils at the pier’s
groundbreaking ceremony in October 2018. As the OLIN Studio
website makes clear, the pier will be unique, “providing a physical
and virtual space that brings to life the invisible dynamics of
the Hudson River Estuary… and recreation and leisure spaces for
people of all ages.” t
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