LONDON (ShareCast) - Ground engineering specialist Keller Group has been awarded a contract to work on the City of Seattle's Elliott Bay seawall project.

The £25m deal involves the repair and replacement of a large section of seawall along Seattle's downtown waterfront. Keller will construct a grid of approximately 5,500 large diameter soilcrete columns at depths of up to 26 metres, to provide seismic stability and foundation support for the new seawall, it explained.

A test programme is expected to begin this March, following which the work will be carried out over three years, avoiding the main periods for tourism.

Justin Atkinson, Keller's Chief Executive, said: "Keller has a long track record of successfully completing very large specialty grouting projects in difficult environments around the world. At Elliott Bay, the particular challenges associated with constructing jet grouted columns around existing timber piles add complexity to this contract, which plays to our strengths.

"Increasing our participation in large and complex projects remains one of our key aims and we are delighted to have been selected to work on the Elliott Bay seawall project."

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