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Read about the J.C. Baldwin Construction Company in the news. The following articles describe various coastal bluff stabilization, beach access, and landslide control projects for which we have received public recognition.
A Landslide of Litigation
Walter F. Crampton, P.E.
Civil Engineering
October 1996
It began innocently enough as a street-expansion project. In 1991, roadway crews in Dana Point, Calif. began work widening Stonehill Drive, downhill from a residential development, as part of a capital improvement program to update streets within the Southern California coastal community. At the base of the slope, crews completed the 300 ft long, 65 ft high roadway cut that the developer had to make for the approval of an adjacent property.
In cutting the slope, however, the crews unknowingly loosed an adversely bedded clay seam near the base. The soil started creeping downward, forcing the contractor to stop the work. ... But neither the original consultants nor the roadway wideners recognized the ancient landslide underneath the site.
Group Delta Consultants, Inc. (GDC), San Diego, a geotechnial and civil engineering consultant, and J.C. Baldwin Construction Co., Carlsbad, Calif., collaborated to form the primary components of a design/build team to bid on the Stonehill Drive project.
The Baldwin/GDC team proposal was judged by the city to be the only technically complete and responsive bid...
read more on the challenges of this project...
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