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Eustis Engineering recently completed a geotechnical exploration at the famous New Orleans Moonwalk park, a promenade on the bank of the Mississippi River fronting the French Quarter. A revitalization project along the walkway calls for a new river lookout, new stairs and paving, an expanded plaza area, new paving across the railroad and streetcar lines, and new landscaping, seating, and plantings. The project is part of the City of New Orleans’ plans for the 2018 tricentennial. Performing a geotechnical exploration along one of New Orleans’ most visited sites poses many logistical challenges, but our drillers and field technicians were successful in completing a safe and speedy program downtown. We performed a series of laboratory tests on the soil samples we … Read more…

Eustis Engineering performed the geotechnical services on a mixed-income housing development that aims to help working families on the North Shore. The Groves at Mile Branch is a unique Covington apartment development of single and multi-family lots. A dog park, citrus garden, community orchard, and tot lot are included in the amenities. The apartment complex is situated amidst a central park and community building, near a distressed neighborhood known as the West 30s. The Groves was developed by the Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation, a partnership between the national Volunteers of America and the Greater New Orleans branch. Eustis Engineering developed engineering analyses for the project based on the soil borings and soil mechanics laboratory tests performed by our field and … Read more…

Eustis Engineering performed geotechnical engineering and construction materials testing services for Yuhuang Chemical’s $1.85 billion methanol manufacturing complex in St. James Parish. See CityBusiness story