“Geostrucutral engineering” is a term that has become increasingly common in the specialty foundation construction community in the past 10 to 15 years. Like too many terms in architecture, engineerin...

Having projects in the urban environment representing a large proportion of my career experience, I am always a little surprised when I encounter design professionals and contractors who do not fully ...

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A common application of underpinning is maintaining the stability of the foundations for adjacent structures during excavation on urban sites. If the excavation is deeper than the foundation depth for...

Last week, Lebanon Opera House, the nonprofit arts and culture organization that operates the performing arts venue of the same name, kicked off its celebration of the theater's centennial with a gran...

Email from     Should Temporary Structures be Designed with Higher Allowable Stresses? Traditionally, designers of temporary structures for use in construction had little guidance binding on their des

A while back, I looked at a small support of excavation project in a major city that illustrated some of the issues that can arise when excavation support and underpinning are not considered during th...

Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer provides engineering investigations, analysis and design, and construction risk management services to a variety of stakeholders in construction projects, exis...

An environmental consultant I know once showed me a photograph of a deep excavation he had visited on a site tour. The excavation had required underpinning of a couple of brick, bearing wall buildings...

Well, not really...some explanation is in order. The bearing capacity is the primary design parameter for proportioning shallow foundations (i.e. footings and mats). If the average pressure applied by...

by Richard J. Driscoll, P.E. Consulting Engineer Underpinning is the term applied to a variety of methods used to re-support a structure's foundation, usually to a deeper bearing depth. Generally, und...

Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer (RJDCE) provides consulting structural and foundation engineering and construction risk management services to construction project stakeholders in the northea...

Last week, Lebanon Opera House, the nonprofit arts and culture organization that operates the performing arts venue of the same name, kicked off its celebration of the theater's centennial with a gran...

An environmental consultant I know once showed me a photograph of a deep excavation he had visited on a site tour. The excavation had required underpinning of a couple of brick, bearing wall buildings...

“Geostrucutral engineering” is a term that has become increasingly common in the specialty foundation construction community in the past 10 to 15 years. Like too many terms in architecture, engineerin...

A couple of weeks ago, I was using a geotechnical report to develop a critical parameter for design of a particular foundation system. Like so many geotechnical reports I see, this report had many of ...

A common application of underpinning is maintaining the stability of the foundations for adjacent structures during excavation on urban sites. If the excavation is deeper than the foundation depth for...

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