February 2008 - Avenues Walk Project
 AGES is currently performing full time construction materials testing and construction engineering inspection services for the above referenced project. The Avenues Walk project is being constructed on approximately 300 acres of land south and west of the Mall of the Avenues in southern Duval County. Included in this large project (which will have over 1 million cubic yards of embankment) are FDOT improvements to the intersection of Southside Boulevard and Phillips Highway, a structural steel flyover bridge over the FEC railroad, a new Wal-Mart Super Center store and additional commercial and retail space to be built in future phases. The project has some unique aspects to it, most notably de-watering, de-mucking and subsequent backfilling of several ponds which have fill depths in excess of 30 feet. |
January 2008 - Baptist Medical Center South Campus Tower D Project
 AGES is currently performing construction materials testing, threshold inspection and Private Provider inspection services for the above referenced project. Baptist Medical Center plans to expand its south campus, located within the southeastern quadrant of the intersection of I-95 and Old St. Augustine Road in Jacksonville, Florida. The $65 million project will include an eight(8) story structural steel framed structure with a typical floor footprint of approximately 27,000 to 27,500 square feet. The proposed construction will generally consist of exterior and interior in fill concrete block masonry/pre-cast concrete walls with elevated cast in-place concrete slabs. There will also be a 6 story parking garage constructed adjacent to the main tower project.
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January 2008 - Hilton Garden and Homewood Suites Project
 AGES was recently awarded the construction materials testing and threshold inspection services on the highly publicized $25 million Hilton Garden and Homewood Suites Project located in Jacksonville, Florida. The project is being developed by San Marco Hotel Partners, LLC. AGES previously completed the very detailed geotechnical engineering analysis for the auger-cast pile foundation which included assisting in the performance of pile load tests in compression over 200 tons.
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January 2008 - San Marco Place Condominium Project
The Haskell Company and Chase Properties selected AGES to perform construction materials testing, threshold inspection and Private Provider inspection services for the $45 million San Marco Place Condominium project which is located on the South Bank in Downtown Jacksonville. The upscale project consisted of a 22 story condominium tower using “tunnel form” construction, a 4-story parking garage and an adjoining 5 story office and retail building. AGES previously assisted in the very detailed geotechnical engineering analysis for the drilled shaft pile foundation which included witnessing and observing the performance of statnamic load tests in compression, monitoring of the drilled shaft deep foundation system and full time inspection of “stone column” foundations.
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December 2007 - Downtown Parking Garage Project
 AGES performed the construction materials testing and threshold inspection services on the previously completed Downtown Parking Garage project located in Jacksonville, Florida. The $7 million project was a 7-story parking garage which encompassed an entire city square block. AGES was responsible for the very detailed geotechnical engineering analysis for the drilled shaft pile foundation which included assisting in the performance of statnamic load tests in compression and monitoring of the drilled shaft deep foundation system. |
2007 - AGES HIRES NEW CONSTRUCTION SERVICES MANAGER
It is a pleasure to announce the hiring of Mr. Billy Swanson, P.E. as our new Construction Services Manager. Mr. Swanson’s primary duties will be to manage the daily performance of construction materials testing, threshold inspection and Private Provider inspection services as well as providing the client with client consultation, project administration, technical support, issue resolution and report preparation and review. Mr. Swanson is well experienced in performance and supervision of geotechnical explorations and/or construction services for a variety of foundation types including drilled shafts, pressure injected footings, auger cast piles, H-piles, precast concrete piles, pipe piles and timber piles. He is also experienced with the various aspects of site preparation under a variety of site conditions and is familiar with ground improvement techniques such as surcharging, wick drains, vibro-flotation and use of geo-synthetics. Mr. Swanson has also previously performed and supervised testing and inspection services on numerous projects in the North Florida area while employed at Universal Engineering Sciences for the last 6 years.
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MAY 2007 - AGES WELCOMES NEW ENGINEER
AGES is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Nitan Paliwal, E.I. as a Project Engineer. Mr. Paliwal has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from AM University in India and a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Mr. Paliwal has 2 years of Structural Design experience in concrete, steel and masonry structures. Mr. Paliwal’s primary duties will be to assist in management and the daily performance of construction materials testing, threshold inspection and Private Provider inspection services as well as providing client consultation, project administration, technical support, issue resolution and report preparation and review. Mr. Paliwan has also previously performed and help to supervise testing and inspection services on numerous projects in the North Florida area since his arrival at AGES. One of Mr. Paliwal’s recent job assignments was the monitoring of the drilled shaft foundations for the Baptist Medical Center South Campus Tower D project. |
January 2006 - AGES Welcomes New Certified Building Inspector.
AGES is pleased to announce the hiring of John Thrush, Certified Building Inspector, to the AGES Construction Material Testing and Threshold Inspection Department. John comes to AGES with 33 years of construction and inspection experience. John's primary duties will consist of Performance of Private Provider Inspection Services and Threshold Inspection Services throughout Duval County on all current and future projects for AGES clients. John will be heavily involved in the development, management, and growth of an AGES Structural Building Inspector Department.
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January 2006 - AGES Welcomes new Geotechnical Engineer.
AGES is pleased to announce the hiring of Ahmed Zein, Geotechnical Engineer. Mr. Zein has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Halwan in Egypt, and a Ph.D degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. Mr. Zein focused his doctoral research on non-destructive evaluation of concrete structures and foundations using stress waves propagation techniques. Mr. Zein will be heavily involved in many current and future geotechnical projects all over the south Georgia, north Florida areas.
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September 29, 2005 - Yulee Home Depot
AGES has recently completed the geotechnical engineering and is now finishing the construction materials testing phase for the new Home Depot at the Shoppes at Amelia Concourse in Yulee, Florida. We will continue our services into 2006 completing the adjacent Target Store and adjoining parcels for Kimco Developers Inc.
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September 22, 2005 - AGES ADDS A SKID STEER MULCHER
TO ITS DRILLING FLEET
 AGES has added a custom Takeuchi TL 150 Skid Steer mounted Fecon Mulcher to
its drilling arsenal. The state of the art $110,000 site clearing machine will provide
site access to our drilling fleet on even the most difficult sites. The machine clears
a 7 foot wide path, and can turn trees, vines, palmettoes and stumps into mulch in a
matter of seconds. The rubber track equipment can traverse any terrain. This
equipment will improve drill rig productivity, by minimizing hand clearing, which
means quicker turn around times for our clients. We also will provide specialty subcontract
site clearing support to surveyors, contractors, directional drillers, and others
who have site clearing needs. Call us today if you have an need for clearing services.
To see the equipment in action, visit the Supertrak website at www.supertrak.com,
or call us at 904-886-0766 to arrange for a demonstration.
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April 25, 2005 - AGES Welcomes New Employees
AGES is pleased to announce that Brian Lombard and Tracy Holden have joined our staff. Brian will be an Environmental Site Assessor and Tracy is a senior level CMT Technician.
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March 19, 2005 - The Haskell Company has selected AGES to provide services for their San Marco Place Condominium project.
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The Haskell Company has selected AGES to provide Construction Materials Testing and Threshold Inspection services for their San Marco Place Condominium project which is located on the South Bank in Downtown Jacksonville. The upscale project will consist of a 22-story condominium tower, a 4-story parking garage and an adjoining 5-story office and retail building. Tim Wheeler will be the Threshold Inspector for the project.
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February 28, 2005 - AGES Welcomes New Certified Building Inspector. |
AGES is pleased to announce the hiring of Nancy Sacco, Certified Building Inspector, to the AGES Construction Material Testing and Threshold Inspection Department. Nancy's primary duties will consist of Performance of Private Provider Inspection Services and Threshold Inspection Services throughout Duval County on all current and future projects for AGES clients. Nancy will ultimately become heavily involved in the development, management, and growth of an AGES Structural Building Inspector Department.
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February 15, 2005 - AGES adds a fourth drill
rig to its fleet.
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The
new state of the art Simco 2400SK-1 is mounted on a
3800 tandem trailer and is capable of drilling on low
headroom areas, inside of buildings, and other hard
to get places. The rig is capable of performing
penetration test borings, pushing cones and dilatometers,
and is set up to installshallow monitoring wells. |
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January 18, 2005 - AGES Welcomes New Environmental Services Manager.
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Atlantic Geotechnical & Environmental Services, Inc. (AGES) is pleased to announce that Jeffrey S. Foster, P.G. has joined our staff as the Environmental Services Manager. Jeff has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida and has been providing geological and engineering related services since 1983. He will manage and expand our environmental services group capabilities and brings over 16-years of experience in the environmental industry to AGES.
Mr. Foster is a registered Professional Geologist in Florida and Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania with project manager experience on the assessment and remediation of over 250 petroleum and hazardous waste sites. He has been the lead geologist for 16 RCRA Facility Investigations and 4 CERCLA sites in the United States and has extensive experience in field testing, monitoring, well design, geological and hydro-geological investigations, and contaminant transport mechanisms, remedial alternatives and implementation. Mr. Foster has over ten years experience in conducting Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments as part of the environmental due diligence for environmental conditions associated with properties involved in sales.
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January 14, 2005 - Announcing e-Projects
The AGES Online Project Management System.
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Bonnie McMillan is now scheduling all CMT projects. Please call her at our Jacksonville office at 904-886-0766 ext. 20 or you may reach her on her Nextel number 158*20651*5. You mail also reach her via e-mail at bonniemcmillan@atlanticgeotechnical.com. (or once you are registered for e-projects you may make online scheduling requests). Although all of our technicians remain at your service, and would be happy to help you, we asked that you please contact Bonnie directly with all your scheduling. This will ensure that we will have the right technician, at the right site, with the right equipment and on time to perform the requested service.
We are pleased to announce that our long awaited e-projects website is now up and running. Visit our site at www.atlanticgeotechnical.com. Once you have become a registered e-projects user, you can: (1) receive immediate e-mail distribution of completed reports to you and other designated associates, (2) make service requests, (3) view a service calendar, and (4) download all archived reports. Please call Angie Gualdino at 904-886-0766 ext. 17 or Nextel number 160*20297*3 to sign up for e-projects and get your user id and password. Start getting your information with the click of a button! Once your are registered log on to www.atlanticgeotechnical.com and see how easy it is. Our clients' convenience is always our highest priority. We continue to strive to provide cost effective, high quality and timely services using the cutting edge of today's technology!
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December 17, 2004 - WCI Communities, Inc., selects AGES for $43 million Costa Verano Condominium Project.
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AGES was recently awarded the construction materials testing and threshold inspection services on the highly publicized $43 million Costa Verano Condominium project located in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The project is being developed by WCI Communities, Inc., a very well known developer of up scale, luxurious, condominium projects along the eastern coast of the United States. AGES previously completed the very detailed geotechncial engineering analysis for the auger-cast pile foundation which included assisting in performance of a statnamic load test to compression loading conditions over 400 tons.
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August 30, 2004 - FDOT Adds AGES To Their Approved Consultants
List |
Atlantic Geotechnical & Environmental
Services, Inc. was accepted as a Florida Department of Transportation
(FDOT) Approved Consulting Engineering & Testing Laboratory
in the following Categories: 9.1 - Soil Exploration; 9.2 -
Geotechnical Classification Laboratory Testing; 9.3 - Highway
Materials Testing ;9.4 - Foundation Studies. For more information
and/or to obtain price quotes please contact program
coordinators, Tim Wheeler, P.E. and/or Ollie Sayre.
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| May
2004 - Nassau County Florida Selects AGES. |
Nassau County recently awarded a 4 year
contract to Jacksonville based Atlantic Geotechnical and Environmental
Services. Under the contract, AGES will provide Geotechnical
and Environmental Testing and Exploration to the county for
new construction, roadways and other projects.
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1, 2004 - AGES Adds DOT / Quality Control Specialists. |
Today, Atlantic Geotechnical and Environmental
Services, A Jacksonville Based Engineering firm announced
the addition of Olie Sayre to its ranks. Sayre is a 25 year
veteran with extensive experience in construction and roadway
materials testing and quality control. Sayre will play a key
role in services provided to area governments and the FDOT.
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| April,
2004 - AGES Selected For New Clay County Courthouse Annex. |
In confirming the site of its new County
Courthouse Annex, Clay County selected Atlantic Geotechnical
and Environmental Services to provide Geotechnical Exploration
and Testing Services. As a local firm
AGES is expected to provide timely services for the project
slated for completion this September.
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April,
2004 - AGES Selected For Walmart Super Store Project.
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AGES has been selected to provide Geotechnical
Exploration and Testing at the site of Walmart's newest superstore.
Ages was chosen by the TCI who
is overseeing the project located at the intersection of Beach
Blvd., and Hodges in Jacksonville.
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| February
2004 - AGES Ranked #1 By St. Johns County. |
This month, St. Johns County reviewed
proposals from over a dozen local and national engineering
firms wishing to provide Environmental Testing, Geotechnical
Exploration and other associated services to the county. The
County selected three of the competing firms, naming AGES
as the preferred firm of the top three. "We're excited
and pleased to be working with St. Johns County - this contract
is further evidence of our capabilities and commitment to
provide accurate - on time services" stated Bill McMahan,
AGES' president.
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| January
28, 2004 - AGES Certified By The City of Jacksonville |
AGES, a Jacksonville geotechnical and
environmental engineering and testing firm announced today,
its official certification by the City of Jacksonville, to
provide services to city government under the Small Business
Enterprise Program. This certification clears the way for
AGES to provide a wide array of geotechnical, environmental,
and construction materials testing services to the city at
a time of great demand.
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| January
20, 2004 - AGES Welcomes New Geotechnical Engineer |
AGES officially welcomed Greg Holtz
to its staff today. Holtz, holds a both Civil and Physical
Engineering degrees from San Diego State University, and the
University of Maryland. Holtz brings more than 15 years of
extensive geotechnical and soil investigative experience to
the AGES staff.
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| January
19, 2004 - AGES Announces New Corporate Offices And Testing
Labs |
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This month, Atlantic Geotechnical and Environmental Services
began operating from its new corporate offices in Jacksonville's
Southside at 9556 Historic Kings Road South. An open house
was held to give clients a tour of the new 4500 square foot
facility and its extensive in-house materials and soil testing
labs. According to President Bill McMahan, this advanced facility
shall serve as the companies prototype for all future offices.
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