| CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS & STRUCTURES
We build the solid backbone of your project. Our work includes everything from foundations that support homes and buildings to structural concrete for walls, columns, and slabs, ensuring stability.
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS
| RESIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONS
The best choice depends on factors like climate, soil conditions, budget, and a homeowner's preference for usable space.
Slab-on-Grade: A single, thick concrete slab is poured directly on the ground. This foundation serves as both the ground floor and the structural base of the building, with thickened edges for extra support.
Crawl Space: This foundation elevates a building 2 to 4 feet off the ground, creating a shallow, unfinished space between the ground and the first floor. This space is enclosed by concrete walls built on footings and is often used for accessing utilities.
Full Basement: A full basement is a foundation that creates a full-height, usable living space below the first floor. It is the deepest type of foundation and is constructed by digging a large excavation and pouring concrete walls and a floor.
Pier and Beam: This system consists of a series of vertical posts or piers that are set into the ground and a grid of horizontal beams that rest on top of the piers. The beams then support the rest of the building's structure, creating an elevated space underneath.
T-Shaped Foundation: A T-shaped foundation is a traditional design used in areas with a deep frost line. It involves pouring a wide footing at the bottom of the excavation, followed by a narrower concrete wall that sits on top of it. This "T" shape provides stability and prevents the foundation from being lifted by frost.
Footings: Footings are the parts of a foundation that spread the building's weight over a larger area of soil, preventing it from sinking.
Continuous/Strip Footings are a continuous, elongated footing used to support load-bearing walls.
Isolated Footings are individual pads of concrete that support a single point load, such as a column.
| COMMERCIAL FOUNDATIONS
Shallow Foundations
Shallow foundations are placed near the ground surface. They're typically used for lighter buildings or in areas with stable, load-bearing soil.
Slab-on-Grade: A single, thick concrete slab poured directly on the ground. It's a very common, cost-effective option for light-to-moderately loaded commercial structures.
Mat (or Raft) Foundation: A heavily reinforced concrete slab that covers the entire footprint of the building. It's used when the soil has low load-bearing capacity, as it distributes the building's weight over a larger area to prevent settlement.
Spread Footings: This includes individual footings, which are pads of concrete under each column, and continuous (or strip) footings, which run along load-bearing walls. They are wider than the columns or walls they support to spread the load to the soil below.
Deep Foundations
Deep foundations transfer the building's load to a deeper, more stable soil layer or bedrock. They are used for heavy structures, high-rises, or when surface soil conditions are poor.
Pile Foundations: Long, slender columns of concrete, steel, or wood are driven or drilled deep into the ground. They transfer the building's load through either end-bearing (to bedrock) or friction along the pile shaft.
Drilled Shafts (Caissons): A deep hole is drilled into the ground and then filled with reinforced concrete. They are used for very heavy loads and can be customized in terms of diameter and depth.
Piers: Similar to piles but often larger in diameter. They are constructed by excavating a hole and filling it with concrete, often with a flared bottom to increase bearing capacity.
| RETAINING WALLS & STRUCTURES
A concrete retaining wall's primary benefit is its exceptional strength and durability. It provides a stable, long-lasting barrier that prevents soil erosion, manages water runoff, and creates flat, usable land on sloped properties.
Gravity Walls: These walls rely on their sheer mass and weight to resist the pressure from the soil behind them. They are often built from precast concrete blocks, or poured-in-place concrete.
Cantilevered Walls: These walls are reinforced with steel to provide strength and stability. They consist of a vertical wall, called a stem, and a horizontal base slab, which are often shaped like an "L" or an inverted "T." The weight of the soil on top of the base slab helps hold the wall.
Counterfort Walls: Similar to a cantilevered wall, a counterfort wall has additional support from triangular concrete braces (counterforts) that are built on the backside of the wall. These buttresses connect the vertical wall to the base slab, providing extra strength for tall walls.
Piled Walls: These walls use reinforced concrete piles driven deep into the ground. They are a good option for sites with limited space, as they require minimal excavation.
Anchored Walls: For walls needing to resist high pressure or for very tall structures, anchored walls are used. A combination of a structural wall and anchors, which are cables or rods driven into the soil behind the wall and then post-tensioned to provide additional support.