Micropile Foundations Is this project a good fit for micropiles? This is a question that I’m asked quite often. Micropiles are an excellent deep foundation option to solve two common problems – difficult ground conditions or limited access. What are Micropiles? Let’s start with a brief description. A micropile is a drilled and grouted replacement…
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Leading in the Construction Industry HUMILITY + WILLJim Collins in “Good to Great” defines Level 5 Leaders as those who blend personal humility with intense professional will. While Collin’s team didn’t set out to focus on leadership, during their research they observed that Level 5 leaders were at the helm of every Good to Great…
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Silica Exposure Control Programs in the Drilling Industry We are all gaining familiarity with “Table 1. SPECIFIED EXPOSURE CONTROL METHODS WHEN WORKING WITH MATERIALS CONTAINING CRYSTALLINE SILICA” of OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule for Construction – a title that kind of rolls right off the tongue. Table 1 was OSHA’s attempt to guide contractors in reducing…
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Recently our Regional Managers, Alex Smith, PE and Jodie Nixon, PE, attended the Bell Leadership Institute’s Achievers™ conference in Raleigh, NC. The Bell Leadership Institute is a leading organization in executive education and development helping organizations through its programs and services since 1972. The focus of the Achievers™ conference is “become a great leader by building yourself…
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Subsurface Construction is honored to have the Virginia War Memorial as a Technical Featured article in Foundation Drilling Magazine July 2018, a publication of the Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors (ADSC). Subsurface designed and constructed a permanent anchored secant pile wall and a temporary soil nail wall for the expansion project. For the secant pile…
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Subsurface completed a permanent secant pile wall at the VA War Memorial. The wall serves as a permanent basement wall and supports vertical load from the structure.
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For the Freddie Mac Expansion project in McLean, VA, L.F. Jennings (G.C.) selected Subsurface Construction to design and install the ground shoring system around the perimeter of the site. Fairfax County has a shoring geotechnical review board with strict guidelines for allowable soil properties used in shoring design. We were informed by the project geotechnical…
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Developer taps into demand created by Triangle’s growing senior population DAVID BRACKEN RALEIGH With the Triangle’s job market proving itself to be among the best in the country in recent years, this region has been adding new residents at a faster rate than all but a handful of other metropolitan areas. That population growth is…
Read MoreI am sharing an email from one of our industry safety leaders: All, This is yet another unfortunate reminder of how dangerous / deadly our work can be. While the exact details are not known as yet, it is thought that some type of entanglement incident occurred between an employee and the rotating drill string…
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