03/01/2023
The Port of Savannah's Mason Mega Rail Project is a 185-acre intermodal facility that comprises 18 tracks for simultaneous operations of six 10,000-foot-long trains. The six ground improvement techniques were employed to treat the landfill material and mitigate the settlement and stability concerns: dynamic compaction of the landfill, undercut and geogrid stabilization for wetlands, driven prestressed concrete piles for rail-mounted gantry (RMG) cranes and two rail bridges, rigid inclusions for embankment stability, surcharge with wick drains for drainage structures with high fill, geocell MSE walls along the edge of the rail yard. These innovative measures saved about $12 million over the conventional approaches. Please feel free to contact Guoming Lin of Terracon at Guoming.Lin@terracon.com for additional questions. The online version of the article can be found here.