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Acknowledgement
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Many people and
a number of organizations contributed to the success of the
Chicago-State project. Special
thanks are due Messrs. Kevin Hayes and Robert Staiton of
Baker Engineering, the construction managers of the project,
for their outstanding efforts providing access to the site
under difficult conditions. Dr. Andy Longinow and Mr. Nicholas
Hyatt of Wiss, Janney Elstner Associates Inc. were responsible
for
the monitoring of the school and provided structural expertise
throughout the project. The help and interest of Mr. Tom
Ambry, Ms. Cindy Williams and Mr. Manoher Chawla of the Department
of
Transportation of the City of Chicago made the work much
easier. The support
of Mr. C. Gregory Veith, the manager of facilities and construction
for the Archdiocese of Chicago, is appreciated. His willingness
to accept the proposed solution was key to the success of
the project. Mr. Dan McCarthy of CTI instrumented the support
elements and was very helpful during all aspects of instrument
installation
and data collection. Aldridge
Drilling installed the secant pile wall and TCDI installed
the tiebacks. The help of Messrs. Steven Scherer, Kyle Camper
and Jeff Hill of TCDI is greatly appreciated. Dr.
Safdar Gill of Ground Engineering designed the wall system
for the Chicago DOT. Walsh Construction was the general
contractor. Collins
Engineers designed the wall for Walsh. The
authors also thank Gilles Marchadier, Dan Priest, Benoit
Paineau, Jill Roboski, Kristi Kawamura, and Amy Rechenmacher,
graduate students at Northwestern University, who generously
gave of their time to help with data collection throughout
the length of the project. Frank
Voss of Northwestern University helped with the preparation
of this final report.
The authors acknowledge
the financial support for a portion of this work provided
by the Infrastructure Technology Institute of Northwestern
University. The continuing support of Mr. David Schulz,
its director, is greatly appreciated. Support
was also provided by funds from a National Science Foundation
grant CMS-0115213. The authors also thank Dr. Richard
Fragaszy, program manager of Geotechnical and GeoHazardsl
Systems,
for his support of this work.
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