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"Say Who? Say What?" ?? That's the famous chant you might hear- if you can still hear at all - when attending a University of Washington Huskies football game in the Emerald City. ?? On today's #ThrowbackThursday, we travel to Seattle for the U220 University Link Light Rail project, a 3.15-mile extension of Sound Transit’s light rail system in beautiful Seattle, Washington. Located?entirely underground, it connects the University of Washington through-stations at Capitol Hill and the University of Washington with downtown Seattle. We were on the job as part of a JV with our friends from Condon Johnson, working on temporary shoring and the construction of the permanent reinforced concrete diaphragm walls for the new light rail station near Husky Stadium. Husky Stadium is known as one of the most beautiful - and the loudest - stadiums in all of college football. The sound decibels have been measured at higher than a jet engine! (Two words: Hearing. Protection.) ?? Fans come by boat, by bus and now by underground train - to fill the 70,000-plus seat stadium (and to test the capacity of the human ear drum.) Our crews had to plan work around the football schedule to make sure the fan experience for 70K+ Huskies wasn't interrupted. If you're traveling to a Husky game this weekend, Go Dawgs! Don't forget your hearing protection and if you stop by the University Light Rail Station, know your friends from Nicholson were there! #BuildOnUs #Tunneling #LightRail #GoDawgs #Dwall

? Scenic Sonic Sunset ? This #photosfromthefield Thursday edition comes from one of our old friends, Lindsey M. Ackerman, P.E. - which makes it a #photosfromthefieldphotofromafriend! This sunset stunner features our new Sonic drill at the very scenic - and very remote - Red Bluff site in Orla, TX. Thanks to Lindsey for this great shot and for continuing to be a Nicholson #fieldphotographer! You'll always be part of our crew! #BuildOnUs #photosfromfriends #sonicdrilling #scenicsonicsunset

If you're at the DFI's Annual Conference this week on Water, Resiliency and Infrastructure, you don't want to miss our very own Design Engineer Extraordinaire Benjamin Giacometti presenting with our friends Adam Hacker and Enrique Farfan, Ph.D, P.E. from HDR on Complex Geotechnical Engineering for a Levee! Our work at Louisville, KY's Paddys Run Pump Station is being presented at 4:55 pm - but this crew is going to make it so exciting - you'll feel like it's 8 am. Don't miss them! #BuildOnUs #levee #geotechnicalengineering

We're wishing "in bocca al lupo" to the pride of "bel paese," our very own Luca Barison, who is the Co-Chair of the DFI's 49th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations. Catch him tomorrow morning leading the Opening Plenary and Technical Sessions! ???? Luca has spent much of the last year working on this week's conference (in addition to his day job, which keeps him kind of busy ?? .) If you've ever organized an event of this scale, you know that it can be as easy as nailing Jell-O to a tree. But our guy is known for his ability to "salvare capra e cavoli." That sounds like a delicious Italian dinner but actually means "to solve a tricky problem." ?? Cheers to Luca and go visit our crew at booth 710 to talk about Water, Resiliency and Infrastructure. As they say in Italy, mangia bene, ridi spesso, ama molto! Ciao! #BuildOnUs #GoTeam #water #Infrastructure #resiliency

Hot off the press: We're in the October/November edition of Geostrata with a closer look at Ohio's Shoreline Storage Tunnel! Our friends Eric Brichler and Jér?me Dupront take you through the ups, downs, ins and outs of Shoreline's Shore Thing! Read all about it here: ? https://lnkd.in/eX_iwG79 #HotOffthePress #ReadAllAboutIt #tunneling

A new bombshell enters the villa... ?? (Translation: the mob efforts continue at Owls Head with the arrival of Her Royal Highness: the hydraulic clamshell.) She'll be taking a bite out of Brooklyn soon... ?? Stay tuned! #BuildOnUs #newbombshellinthevilla #dwall #herroyalhighness #mobisland #loveisland

? We're seeing stars! ? It's an Awards Season #TeamTuesday salute to our I-35 Stormwater Storage Facility crew, who recently were awarded the American Public Works Association's Project of the Year in the Disaster or Emergency Construction/Repair $25-$75 million category! The team traded in their steel toes and hi-viz to collect their new hardware - and we have to say, they clean up pretty nice! A project of the size and scale of I-35 can only be successful when you bring together the strengths of different groups and you focus their talents on the best possible solution for the public. Hardhats off to our friends from Kraemer North America, Barr Engineering, Brierley Associates and our own fearless leader Lola Moussey, P.E. for a job well done. Let's run it back in 2025! #BuildOnUs #awards #projectoftheyear Luca Barison Thomas Pullen

The Perks of Being a Diaphragm Wall-Flower. ?? Nerdy Book Reference ?? Cool Construction Photo #BuildOnUs #Perks #PerksofBeingaDiaphragmWallFlower #dwall #booknerds #constructionnerds

Feelgood Friday News ?? As you may know, last weekend here in Pittsburgh, our Pitt Panthers faced off against the Mountaineers of West Virginia in the Backyard Brawl. In honor of that long-standing rivalry, we thought we'd do a little brawl of our own - but to benefit Food Helpers. This friendly brawl was organized by Mountaineer Alum Mom Mary Ellen Large. The matchup was Engineers Vs Contractors with our friends from Langan and AGES. The Contractors came up with with the win this time with a whopping 1350 lbs of food collected. The Engineers came up with a respectable 350 lbs. That's 1700 lbs in total for local folks who are food insecure. In this competition, everyone is a winner! *Unlike the actual Backyard Brawl, in which Pitt said "country roads, take 'em home!" We'll be back next year, brawlin' for a good cause. Go Team(s)! #BuildOnUs #H2P #Mountaineers #countryroads #backyardbrawl

The Owl has Landed.... ?? The Major Projects crew is on the ground and getting ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple for the Gowanus Owls Head Project! You may recall that this project involves the construction of two combined sewer overflow tank in Brooklyn that will intercept and store up to 12 million gallons of combined sewage that would otherwise flow into Gowanus Canal in heavy rain events. Site mob started this week with the arrival of our first crane. Once we're fully mobbed, we'll be installing a 215,000 SF diaphragm wall to facilitate installation of a 4-million-gallon CSO storage tank.?The diaphragm wall will provide the NYCDEP with a support of excavation system as well as a groundwater cutoff wall. ?? Who should stay tuned? You should stay tuned. ?? #BuildOnUs #SiteMob #OwlsHead #dwall #CSOConstruction #Cutoffwall #owlhumor