Master Planned Communities
GMU has served as the lead geotechnical engineering firm for the planning, design, grading and construction of numerous award-winning master-planned communities. Some of our recognizable projects include Ladera Ranch, Talega, Newport Coast, Rancho Mission Viejo, Rancho Niguel, Coto de Caza, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Las Flores in Orange County, the Edgewater project in San Bernandino County and Santaluz in San Diego County.
Newport Coast - Crystal Cove, Newport Beach
Client: The Irvine Company
GMU performed a detailed geotechnical evaluation for the upper Crystal Cove community within the Irvine Company’s prestigious Newport Coast project. The roughly 800-acre neighborhood is surrounded by 3,600 acres of open space and is characterized by steep and highly variable natural topography. The proposed grading involved numerous large and deep landslides, several hundred feet of fills and extremely high fill slopes. Consequently, innovative analytical, monitoring and construction techniques needed to be developed, including high-stress consolidation and hydro-collapse tests, staged fill requirements, drainage blankets for mitigation of lateral fill extension, MSE Wall design, and long-term fill performance monitoring. |
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