Project Location: Shanghai, China
Client: U.Sargent & Lundy Engineers; Chicago, Illinois
Dates: 1988

Sargent & Lundy Engineers were designing a power plant in Shanghai, China. The subsurface consisted of very soft alluvial clay and medium dense sand. Because of a potential downdrag problem on the driven piles that were proposed, associates of LCR&A were retained to analyze the behavior of piles due to settlement of the soft clay at the site.