to its employees to help reach and maintain the milestone of zero lost time injuries, and provides an opportunity to facilitate dis- cussions to identify areas for improvement and foster a team building culture. The Moles is a fraternal organization of the heavy construction industry, in which its members are leaders in their profession and are dedicated to promoting the industry and supporting their colleagues through outreach programs and networking opportunities. Deep CEO Bill Start (R) accepts award at 104 West 40 Street in midtown Man- hattan, N.Y., to provide a range of the 61- year-old company’s traditional engineering and related services: tunneling, geostruc- tural, geotechnical, dams and levees, and risk management. William J. Fall has joined Schnabel as a senior associate and branch leader of the NYC office. Fall has more than 30 years of engineering and construc- tion experience managing Schnabel Engineering has opened an office th Christopher S. Traylor, Traylor Brothers, was installed on May 3 as president for 2017-2018 for The Moles. Traylor has a B.S.C.E. degree from Stanford University and an M.S.C.E. degree, with a specialty in construction engineering management, from the University of California, Berkeley. Traylor joined the family-owned company to work on the numerous projects, which allowed him to become familiar with various heavy construction projects, including TBM bored tunnels, underground structures, bridges and highways, locks and dams, and ports and wharfs. Traylor has also served on numerous construction industry boards, such as the Construction Industry Ethics and Compliance Initiative, Construc- tion Institute of ASCE and Construction Industry Safety Initiative. major transportation, infrastructure and environmental projects such as rail transit, bridges, tunnels and waste-to-energy facilities in the NYC metro region. In addi- tion to business development and manage- ment, he is also responsible for project management, technical guidance and mentoring. Fall received a B.S.C.E. from the University of New Haven and an M.S.C.E. (geotechnical) from Manhattan College. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Michigan. DFI congratulates all recent inductees into The Moles, especially its members: Andrew J. Burns, Underpinning & Foundation Skanska; Sitotaw Y. Fantaye, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers; Terence P. Holman, Turner Construction Company; Walter E. Kaeck, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers; and Dennis Y. Lam, Skanska USA Civil. Michael D. Moore, ADSC, was also inducted at the May dinner meeting. 106 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JULY/AUG 2017 GZA announces its new Boston location at 31 State Street. The new office location offers a flexible workspace and a convenient meeting space for clients. “We are pleased to move into this new building, which abuts the historic Old State House in Boston,” said William Hadge, CEO of GZA. “Our roots are here in the city, and we look forward to working with our clients in the new space.” GZA has been named a Grand Award winner of the 2017 American Council of Engineering Companies 50th Engineering Excellence Awards for its foundation design of the $3.98 billion New NY Bridge spanning across the Hudson River. This structure is the largest highway-bridge project currently underway in the U.S. This design-build project consists of two, 3 mi (4.8 km) long bridges that carry I-87/287 across the Hudson River between Tarry- town and Nyack, N.Y. The foundation design resulted in significant cost savings to the taxpayers of New York, and was a key factor in winning this landmark project. The project team overcame complex ground conditions along the bridge route, including a compressible clay layer up to 750 ft (230 m) deep. In this area, the team used steel pipe piles up to 360 ft (110 m) long, having capacities of 2,100 tons (1,905 tonne), unprecedented for the soft soils within the Hudson River Valley. In addition, there were nearly 400 fewer piles than proposed by other competitors, that eliminated the cost of several thousand tons of steel, and the associated reduction in carbon emissions. Dr. Prasad Yenumula, member of the DFI Electric Power Systems Foundations Work- ing Group, along with Dr. Sriram Kalaga, recently published Design of Electrical Transmission Lines: Structures and Founda- tions. This 468-page book covers structural and foundation systems used in high- voltage transmission lines along with asso- ciated topics such as structure functions and configurations, load cases, analysis tech- niques, structure and foundation modeling, design deliverables and foundation topics related to direct embedment, drilled shafts, spread foundations and anchors. The book is available at crcpress.com.
