Segmental Box Culvert - Type 2

Keeping students and teachers cool in Arizona’s hot climate is a necessity at the Arizona State University (ASU) Tempe campus. Lying 15’ beneath the university’s surface is an expansive underground utility tunnel system servicing the entire campus. The underground structure houses utility pipes containing chilled water and steam used to power, cool, and heat the campus. Some of these tunnels are more than 80 years old. In 2022

So the cheese cave will be a lot less work because the humidity and temperature will be easier to keep steady without the blowing air. We realized for liability and safety reasons that it needed to be an engineered structure. We called up Jensen Precast, and they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.’ They thought it was a great idea.

Engineered to divert water into adjacent wetlands during storm events, the four box culvert structures under the new Peatman Drive in Napa, California, are designed to prevent flooding of a recently developed commercial site on Soscol Avenue. That’s the easy part. Connecting the structures under the road took some creative thinking for the engineers at Jensen Precast. Napa sits in the southern region of Napa County, where award