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Soil Boring Database for UIUC Students

Project Description

Since the 1930's, faculty and staff in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Illinois State Geological Survery (ISGS) in the Prairie Research Institute have worked with Facilities & Services (F&S) in characterizing the underground geological and engineering conditions at new building sites. Together with the F&S' consultants and developers these campus teams have been influential in the save design and construction of many notable buildings on campus (e.g., State Farm Center and Krannert Performing Arts Center). For every new construction project, sets of soil boring's are taken to describe the geological materials and geo-technical parameters where components of the structure foundation will be constructed. Throughout the 90+, each of these three campus units have retained their own records of these soil boring's and associated site descriptions and design interpretations, but there is not one central database for all this information. F&S is the primary repository for soil boring and engineering documents for campus projects, but these records are not available in a geospatial map service that can be viewable by campus staff and faculty. The ISGS has a partial record of soil boring's on campus that are available through the ILWATER mapping project. This proposed project will bring together all the soil boring records from campus building projects into one database that will be made available through the ISGS ILWATER mapping project. This team will assist F&S staff and ISGS scientists in developing and building the database and map project. Having a complete database available to campus will make future building projects more efficient and save costs from taking unnecessary soil boring's. For example, the use of historical underground information can be used to inform the site conditions for new projects reducing the number of additional soil boring's needed for building designs. 

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Funding Details

Student Campus Environment Fee (SCEF) - 303692
Fiscal Year Status Amount Date Operations
2022 Allocated $7,500.00 5/21/2022 Edit | Delete

SSC Basic Info

Year Started: 2022
Semester: Spring
Status: Active
Student Led? Yes
Project Category: Land, Air, and Water

SSC Project Team

Project Lead:

Wenzhe (Jason) Mi (wmi2@illinois.edu)

Financial Advisor:

Beth Letiz (bleitz@illinois.edu)

Project Advisor:

Andrew Anderson (acandrsn@illinois.edu)

Team Members:

  • Beth Leitz
  • Andrew Anderson
  • Andrew Stumpf

Project Award Letter

Illinois Green Fund - Student Sustainability Committee