GEORGE TAMARO: An Italian innovation, slurry walls were first used in 1949. The Port Authority was very courageous to use them in 1967, since slurry walls had not previously been used to this ...

In 1978, the former Velsicol Chemical Co. plant in St. Louis was demolished and buried onsite. That included buildings, storage tanks and process piping. The plant had once manufactured a variety of ...

Busloads of people toured the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. Superfund site on June 12 as the company and government officials explained how a slurry wall containment system might work at the site.

Steep tuition and vertigo steered George J. Tamaro away from architecture and high-rise engineering, so he went underground—becoming one of construction’s most accomplished “below-grade guys” in a ...