In another elegant solution to a controls-and-management problem on the surge-barrier project, Jones turned to an instrument-laden, 50-ft-long, bullet-pointed pipe to provide accuracy validation for pile placement 35 ft under an active navigation channel.
As it built the wall of the Inner Harbor Navigation Channel Surge Barrier, TMW installed, under a separate contract, hundreds of foundation piles for the barrier's 150-ft-wide sector gate on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.