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Treasure Island / Yerba Buena Island Redevelopment

Developer

Treasure Island Community Development (TICD)

Location

San Francisco, CA

Project Overview
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ENGEO is the Geotechnical Engineer of Record.

The project provides a new, high-density, mixed-use community with a variety of housing types, a retail core, open space and recreation opportunities, on-site infrastructure, and public and community facilities and services.

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Engeo's Role

In 2014, 2015, and 2016 ENGEO conducted the design-level geotechnical study for the first Major Phase of development, an approximately 171-acre parcel with a new ferry terminal, approximately 3,700 residential units, and 100 acres of parks and open space.

At Yerba Buena Island, the geotechnical considerations and design features include: slope and foundation design issues associated with existing cut slopes and hillside fills; stability of existing retaining walls; slope stability issues associated with the steep perimeter slopes; slope stability issues associated with the slopes under and adjacent to the Treasure Island Road Viaduct.

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Challenges

The main geotechnical challenges at the site included:
(1) seismic stabilization of the perimeter shoreline and causeway that connect Treasure Island to Yerba Buena Island,
(2) mitigation of long-term static settlements under the development footprint due to the presence of Bay Mud, and
(3) mitigation of liquefaction-induced settlement within the development footprint.

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Solution and Outcome

Coordination

ENGEO designed and managed a large scale ground improvement test section, high-end cyclic testing on the soils and finite element dynamic analyses to demonstrate that a proprietary ground improvement technique would stabilize and mitigate liquefaction-induced lateral spread, thereby making high-rise development feasible, and saving millions and years of construction in the process. 

    • Optimization of liquefaction hazard and lateral deformation through robust field explorations, state-of-the-art laboratory analyses, and advanced numerical modeling   
    • Mitigation of seismically induced liquefaction within the development footprint utilizing direct power compaction  
    • Utilization of state-of-the-art non-ergodic seismic hazard analysis for ground-motion optimization for vertical developments   
    • Implementation of 2- and 3-dimensional finite-element modeling to evaluate static and seismic soil-structure interaction  
    • Installation of an extensive instrumentation program to monitor the performance existing buildings potentially impacted by the geotechnical mitigation program
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