The new Holiday Inn Hotel and Water Park was constructed just north of downtown Omaha, north of the Qwest Center and north of the new baseball stadium built for the College World Series. The project site is located within the alluvial plane of the Missouri River and in an area of Omaha where multiple prior phases of site development and redevelopment were likely. The hotel is a three-story structure supported on auger cast pile foundations.
One of the waterslides for the park was designed to exit the building with multiple bends and turns and then re-enter. However, auger cast piles had not been placed to support the slide at the same time piles were installed for the building. Excessive differential settlement was a concern for shallow spread footings bearing within undocumented fill over weak alluvial (water-deposited) soils. Access to the back of the building was limited, timing was critical and cost was a major factor in completion of the project.