Projects & Markets

Project experience across public, private, hillside, and infrastructure work.

These entries combine Zamborelli’s published service categories, project photography, and public reporting, with emphasis on the type of work performed and the site conditions involved.

Project context is organized around equipment, site conditions, drilling scope, and documented outcomes.

Shoring and Underpinning

Bluebird Landslide Repair

Location
Bluebird Drive, Laguna Beach, CA
Listed Cost
$5,375,000

Design-build slope-failure repair where sliding homes were underpinned, the slide plane was temporarily shored for over-excavation and recompaction, and the shoring used soldier piles, timber lagging, and three rows of tiebacks.

Limited Access Drilling

Mission Hospital

Location
Medical Center, Mission Viejo, CA
Listed Cost
$1,118,500

Installation of caissons inside an existing operating emergency room. Company materials describe exhaust tubing and scrubber piping routed outside, plus sectional rebar cage installation using a custom portable hoist.

Caissons

Hockeday Residence

Location
Moorea Way, Laguna Beach, CA
Listed Cost
$600,800

Temporary shoring and caisson work where holes were deepened and rebar reinforcing cages were lengthened as required by the soils engineer.

Soil Nails

Cavallari Residence

Location
Vista Del Sol, Laguna Beach, CA
Listed Cost
$692,275

Installation of a 10,200-square-foot soil nail wall with a rockscape finish, using custom-fabricated equipment because of limited site access.

Tiebacks

CHOC Hospital

Location
La Veta, Orange, CA
Listed Cost
$1,100,000

Temporary shoring for a new medical tower with soldier piles, timber lagging, and tiebacks installed using a Zamborelli custom-designed and fabricated tieback machine.

Tunneling

Methodist Hospital

Location
West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA
Listed Cost
$4,400,000

Design-build installation of two tunnels underneath an existing emergency room to create travel access between a new parking structure and the hospital.

High Water Table

Balboa Island Seawall

Location
Newport Beach, CA

Company materials identify this as seawall installation under high-water-table project work.

Construction Platform

Griswold Residence

Location
Bay Drive, Laguna Beach, CA

Design-build construction platform work for a limited-access oceanfront lot. The platform was used to lower drill rigs, equipment, and materials below.

Historical Pile Work

Yolo Causeway Bridge

Location
Sacramento, CA
Date
1962

Company materials list approximately 3,500 piles constructed for the State Highway Bridge project at Yolo Causeway Bridge.

Historical Utility Work

Bethel State Utility

Location
Bethel, Alaska
Date
1977

Company materials list approximately 2,600 piles installed for an above-ground sewer system for the Corps of Engineers.