Projects

Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CONRAC) Automated People Mover, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

The new Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CONRAC) Automated People Mover (APM) will provide easy customer access and fulfill increasing demands placed upon the existing on-airport car rental facilities.

The facility will be located south of Camp Creek Parkway and west of Interstate 85. The 1.5-mile elevated system, which will travel over I-85, will include stops at the airport, new CONRAC facility, and the Georgia International Convention Center. Completion is scheduled for 2009.

ACCURA is currently providing full comprehensive geotechnical, construction inspection and quality control materials testing services in the following areas: drilled piers, structural rebar inspections, structural steel inspections, subgrade inspections, soils and concrete testing, electrical and MEP inspections.

Fifth Runway (Runway 10-28) Project-Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

The opening of the Fifth Runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was a central moment in the history of the airport.

The design for the fifth runway includes bridge structures that cross the 10 lanes of Interstate 285 According to City of Atlanta officials, the $1.28 billion Fifth Runway, over I-285, is projected to save the airlines operating at Hartsfield-Jackson an average of $5 million per week in delay costs avoidance that will result in paying for itself by 2011. The runway bridge has the largest span of any runway bridge in the world.

ACCURA performed the Geotechnical Study for the western 5,000 feet for new fifth runway and parallel taxiway. Project required construction of new embankments up to 80 feet in height and new retaining walls on the order of 60-feet high. Analysis included slope stability and prediction of primary and secondary settlements using finite element models.

Johns Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and Environmental Campus, Fulton County

Fulton County Department of Public Works has contracted the design and construction of the Johns Creek Environmental Campus.

The state-of-the-art facility will treat wastewater to meet quality standards.

ACCURA is providing geotechnical engineering support, auger cast pile inspections, foundation inspections, subgrade testing and inspections, and masonry testing.

New World of Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia

The New World of Coca-Cola museum, in downtown Atlanta, houses more than 1,000 artifacts from around the world representing the leading soft drink company. The 92,000-square foot facility opened in May 2007.

ACCURA provided inspection and testing services for this historic project in the following elements: structural steel, concrete, fireproofing, masonry, asphalt, structural precast, and architectural precast.

Taxiway V - End Around Taxiway, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

The Taxiway V project is the first end around taxiway in the nation. It allows aircrafts landing on the Atlanta airport's northernmost runway from having to wait for clearance to taxi across active runways to get to the gates.

ACCURA provided inspection and testing services for the following elements: subgrade preparation, soil cement, concrete, MSE wall, and foundation.

Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal (MHJIT), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

This project, called the “Global Gateway to the World” by the City of Atlanta officials will serve as the new international terminal facility at the Atlanta airport. The facility will include 38 international gates and other additions that will enhance passenger customer service.

ACCURA is providing geotechnical engineering support; construction QA/QC inspection and materials testing services for the following elements: foundations, soils, concrete, precast concrete, asphalt, structural steel inspections at the site and fabrication facilities, masonry and roofing, etc. Foundation types include caissons, piles, and micropiles. Environmental testing includes NPDES and Stormwater Monitoring.

2004 and 2007 Non Destructive Pavement Evaluation Program, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Project includes planning, development and implementation of scope of work for periodic airfield pavement testing. Non-destructive test procedures are used to evaluate the pavement using FWD, HWD, digital imaging of the pavement, airfield pavement smoothness testing and analysis, asset management and other innovative pavement technologies.

ACCURA performed visual surveys and computed the Pavement Condition Index data (PCI), assist in data analysis, and prepare final engineering reports. Projects also involved pavement failure investigations of the failed pavements to determine the cause of failure and to make repair, rehabilitation and/or reconstruction recommendations.

Efforts also include capturing all the collected data for the past several years on an ACCESS database to facilitate proper planning in streamlining the pavement Non Destructive Testing program at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Georgia I-75 / SR 401 Pavement Replacement, Cobb, Cherokee and Bartow Counties

This project on Interstate 75, from Barrett Parkway to Glade Road, involves milling and inlay concrete paving for approximately 8.9 miles.

ACCURA is providing pavement engineering expertise along with Quality Control inspections and testing services.

Geotechnical Evaluation, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

ACCURA completed the authorized Subsurface Exploration and Geotechnical Engineering Evaluation for the proposed New Airport Safety / Centralized Command Center (C4) in January 2005, located at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The purpose of this exploration has been to evaluate the general subsurface conditions and study the geotechnical issues related to constructing the New Centralized Command Center (C4).

Department of Energy Savannah River Site

The Accura Geotechnical Laboratory executed three projects at the Department of Energy Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina performing Treatability Studies to examine the Leachability Indexes of Radioisotopes in stabilized soil/grout mix designs.

This work involved extensive testing of mix designs for geotechnical properties, and radiochemical and environmental constituents as a part of the bench, pilot, and full scale implementation of the solidification/stabilization process.

These projects also involved exposing samples to high doses of irradiation as well as special American Nuclear Society (ANS) leaching procedures.

Some of the tests performed by the geotechnical laboratory included: unconfined compressive strength, hydraulic conductivity, shrink-swell, Atterberg Limits, particle sizing and others.