ASCE Metropolitan Section - Design and Rebuilding NYC's Kappock Street Retaining Wall

Design and Rebuilding NYC's Kappock Street Retaining Wall

On May 26, 2010, Alaedin Majlesi, P.E., a Senior Associate of STV, presented a seminar entitled "Design and Rebuilding the Kappock Street Retaining Wall – NYC." Al Majlesi has thirty years of extensive infrastructure and roadway design experience.

The project involved the design and construction of the replacement of 300-foot long parallel roadway retaining walls on Kappock Street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx near the Henry Hudson Parkway exit ramp. It was a design and construction challenge to remove and re-construct this failed road condition and safety hazard, while maintaining existing traffic flow with minimal interruption.

Complex construction staging strategies were considered, imaginative engineering solutions were developed in a variety of alternative solutions. Many facets of civil engineering were applied in various applications to provide safety to vehicles and the pedestrians at all times.