The National World War II Museum received a gift of $20 million from former Board Chairman Boysie Bollinger on 24 March 2015 for the campus expansion project.
The donation will be used to build the commanding, 150-foot-tall Canopy of Peace, which will expand the budding New Orleans Skyline.
Eustis Engineering has been involved throughout various phases of the project. We evaluated complex loading conditions of foundations for the Canopy of Peace.
We also performed a subsurface exploration through a combination of undisturbed soil borings and cone penetration tests. Professional engineering services included the development of soil design parameters to characterize the footprint of the site, allowable pile load capacity designs, estimates of settlement, and foundation construction recommendations.
Eustis Engineering Services, L.L.C. analyzed and revised pile caps and layouts until predicted cap displacements, under all potential loading conditions, were within project tolerances.
In addition to the geotechnical design services, Eustis Engineering provided construction quality control and materials testing services. These services included static and dynamic testing of test piles and production piles, logging of piles during installation, and vibration monitoring.
Bollinger’s donation ranks among the country’s top donations made to a non-profit organization or museum and is the largest private gift the WWII Museum has ever received. The WWII Museum is now $80 million shy of its $325 million capital goal.
The Canopy of Peace is scheduled for completion in 2017.
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