{"id":378,"date":"2026-01-16T02:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/?p=378"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:54:47","slug":"pier-construction-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/at-the-academy\/pier-construction-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier Construction Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pier Construction Update<\/h1>\n<p>All 256 piles for the first phase of the pier construction project have been installed on schedule. Construction of the new main pier extension is also progressing steadily. Crews have installed six precast concrete headers, twelve precast utility trench sections, and thirty precast deck panels, all now grouted in place. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x6OAJkmXRR4?si=OCfm49SKiNNZ1ZEr\" class=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Drone Footage<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ship-feature-img\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Pier construction picture\" width=\"900\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignnone noborder size-full wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic.jpg 900w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic-768x385.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pier Construction Update<\/p>\n<p>All 256 piles for the first phase of the pier construction project have been installed on schedule. Construction of the new main pier extension is also progressing steadily. Crews have installed six precast concrete headers, twelve precast utility trench sections, and thirty precast deck panels, all now grouted in place. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x6OAJkmXRR4?si=OCfm49SKiNNZ1ZEr\" class=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Drone Footage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Pier construction picture\" width=\"900\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignnone noborder size-full wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic.jpg 900w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/01\/pier-pic-768x385.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/at-the-academy\/pier-construction-update\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}