GEORGE TAMARO: An Italian innovation, slurry walls were first used in 1949. The Port Authority was very courageous to use them in 1967, since slurry walls had not previously been used to this ...

In 1978, the former Velsicol Chemical Co. plant in St. Louis was demolished and buried onsite. That included buildings, storage tanks and process piping. The plant had once manufactured a variety of ...

Over 100 feet of dirt was stacked high into the air Wednesday at the Cabot side of the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site, as bulldozers moved around the top of the pile. This is where what's known as a ...

Following the development of the reverse-circulation drilling technique in Japan, trench-cutting machines took off in Europe, according to USSD. In 1984, German contractor Bauer A.G., Schrobenhausen, ...

Steep tuition and vertigo steered George J. Tamaro away from architecture and high-rise engineering, so he went underground—becoming one of construction’s most accomplished “below-grade guys” in a ...