When ThyssenKrupp Steel USA chose to do business in Alabama, the need for a world-class, steel slab barge unloading and loading terminal on the Mobile River was imperative. The Alabama State Port Authority’s (ASPA) site receives deep draft ships transporting slabs from the ThyssenKrupp Mill in Brazil and facilitates the transfer of slabs to barges for delivery to ThyssenKrupp in Alabama. Thompson Engineering, one of the first contractors on site at the ThyssenKrupp manufacturing complex in north Mobile County, performed all engineering and exploratory analyses for the site development and design of shore side bulkhead structures at the port, as well as construction management and construction engineering inspection services.
Thompson’s responsibilities on the project included:
- regulatory permitting;
- geotechnical study for the entire Pinto Island development;
- Phase I/II environmental assessments of the site;
- Ecological and cultural resource surveys;
- environmental consulting and regulatory coordination;
- civil/site development plans for approximately an 11-acre “slab yard” and roadway;
- utility design;
- bulkhead analyses and shore-side bulkhead structures design;
- dredge area design and plans; and
- design of a dike for a future dredge disposal area.
client
ALABAMA STATE PORT AUTHORITY
location
MOBILE, ALABAMA
market
INDUSTRIAL
Service Specialties
- GEOTECHNICAL
- COMPLIANCE
- ASSESSMENTS & INVESTIGATIONS
- ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
- DRILLING
- LABORATORY TESTING
- CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION & MATERIALS TESTING
