Geotechnical Construction News

Soil Nail face Options While we love soil nail walls and beauty is in the eye of the ...

General Contractors have a huge responsibility when buying out the many trades. Excavation shoring can be difficult as ...

Deep Excavation Mistake #1.  You get 4' for free. OSHA tricked us.  It's really not our fault.  Everywhere ...

Limited Access Micropiles, Company Record 180' Depth As the 17-story Virginia General Assembly Building (VAGA) neared completion, it ...

Anchor design and installation for excavation support systems Definition FHWA defines anchors as cement grouted prestressed steel tendons ...

What are some safety considerations when constructing soldier pile walls? Soldier pile wall safety is about taking care ...

How are soldier pile walls constructed? Soldier Pile Installation Soldier piles are typically steel H-piles or W sections.  ...

What are the advantages of a soldier pile wall? Flexibility Soldier Pile Walls are the go-to excavation shoring ...

Micropile Foundation Quality Control Using some basic micropile foundation quality control measures will help your project move forward ...

Micropile Design Micropile design includes structural and geotechnical design. Let's discuss the importance of these two types of ...

What are the advantages of micropiles? Overcoming Difficult Ground Conditions The first advantage of micropiles has to do ...

Soil Nail Walls Quality Control One of our founders has a saying, “checking is cheap.”  Another one most ...

How does a soil nail wall work? Concept Soil nail walls are typically designed using a limit equilibrium ...

Congratulations to Alex Smith on becoming the new Managing Member at Subsurface Construction.  Alex is a professional engineer, ...

What are the advantages of a soil nail wall? Speed and Cost Soil nail walls are installed more ...

With admiration, gratitude, and sadness we announce that Greg Sullivan will retire at the end of 2020. Greg ...

Do you need a permanent or temporary soil nail wall?  Here are the similarities and differences. Both Remain ...

Expressing genuine empathy is critical to being a successful leader, salesperson and coworker.  Want to lose someone's confidence?  ...

Silica Enforcement in the Construction Industry We should consider the OSHA's new silica law a good thing.  The ...

Considering Movement of Excavation Shoring Systems Are you shoring to limit excavation into a tree protection area?  Are ...

We would like to recognize our General Superintendent, Robert Jones, for serving as Field Supervisor for the Anchor ...

Common questions we ask ourselves when preparing a shoring bid: 1.Have we clearly communicated the scope of work ...

Congratulations to TJ Ju, PE, on becoming a US Citizen.  TJ is our lead geotechnical design engineer, a ...

Leading in the Construction Industry HUMILITY + WILLJim Collins in "Good to Great" defines Level 5 Leaders as ...

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Silica Exposure Control Programs in the Drilling Industry We are all gaining familiarity with “Table 1. SPECIFIED EXPOSURE ...

Recently our Regional Managers, Alex Smith, PE and Jodie Nixon, PE, attended the Bell Leadership Institute’s Achievers™ conference in ...

Subsurface Construction is honored to have the Virginia War Memorial as a Technical Featured article in Foundation Drilling ...

Subsurface completed a permanent secant pile wall at the VA War Memorial.  The wall serves as a permanent ...

Driven soil nail wall innovation benefits client in McLean, VA. For the Freddie Mac Expansion project in McLean, ...

Developer taps into demand created by Triangle’s growing senior population DAVID BRACKEN RALEIGH With the Triangle’s job market ...