Brierley Associates is a privately-held national tunnel, trenchless, geo-structural and geotechnical design firm with offices strategically located across the United States. With over 80 underground engineers and geologists, Brierley Associates delivers recognizable value to our clients by providing cost effective and constructable solutions for underground and heavy civil infrastructure projects.
Our team understands that planning, design, and construction of subsurface projects is a complex mixture of client needs, contractual preferences, risk allocation, third party requirements, design criteria, and subsurface conditions.
Brierley Associates’ nationwide and international underground project knowledge-base is key to anticipating ground behavior and helping our clients with design and construction of successful projects, which is the cornerstone of Brierley’s business vision to…“Create Space Underground”.
Press Room
Checkout out our Press Room for past issues of our In Depth Newsletter and published papers and articles.
By: Jay Perkins, P.E. and Ken Smith (MD&B) For trenchless installations below railroads, having complete and accurate subsurface information is key to ensuring the excavation doesn’t damage the critical infrastructure above. Knowing ground conditions across the entire installation means you don’t encounter problems that could slow or
by Jim Williams, PE, PMP, Brierley Associates and Rusty Bascom, Electrical Consulting Engineers, PC Trenchless installation methods require careful coordination between the electrical engineer designing and specifying the power cables and the civil engineer that is designing and specifying the trenchless construction method and layout. Some of
By Nick H. Strater, P.G., Brian C. Dorwart, P.G., P.E., and Jim Williams, P.E. Successful trenchless horizontal directional drilling (HDD) installations require thorough and accurate subsurface investigation and characterization for the development of the drill geometry, to estimate the project cost and schedule, and for selection of
Brierley Associates provided final detailed design of the entire Phase 1 retention system for the Capital Complex project in Austin, TX, an approximately 40-to 65-ft deep, 500,000+ CY excavation through overburden and limestone bedrock As the project is within a dense urban setting, significant coordination with adjacent
Brierley’s trestle designs help builders construct deep excavations by David Berti, Senior Consultant Construction in dense urban areas like San Francisco and Los Angeles pose unique challenges for shoring and excavation. Urban center constraints like walkways, roads, utilities, adjoining buildings, and subways are used by thousands of
