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Earth Mechanics, Inc.
is a geotechnical and earthquake engineering consulting company.
The firm was founded in February 1989 by two founding principals
who worked together on designs of foundations for coastal and offshore
structures, worldwide, for oil companies. Many of these structures
are supported on deep foundations and are located in highly seismic
areas. After the downturn in the oil-and-gas market in the early
to mid 1980's, they switched their project emphasis to bridges in
California; this transition was logical because many bridges are
supported on deep foundations and California has severe seismic
vulnerabilities. Today, the firm consists of four working principals
and many highly trained engineers and geologists to provide quality
services..
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Earth Mechanics, Inc. (EMI)
holds the record of providing geotechnical and foundation design services
for seismic retrofitting of close to 1000 bridges in California, including
five of the six state-owned toll bridges. In addition, the firm served
as a lead geotech for all the new toll bridges in California including
East Span San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge and New Gerald Desmond
Cable Stay Bridge. In the past few years, our client base and project
experience have also grown beyond the bridge area to include other
public works projects and port of harbor developments and expansions,
including freeway, HOV, tunnel, rail, and flood control projects.
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