Standing ready, the rigs and crew for Peterson Contractors Inc are ready to get an early start to their morning. A 5-story residential structure in Phoenix will stand on a couple hundred Geopier GP3® elements designed by Western Ground Improvement with an increased bearing capacity for shallow foundations. The Rammed Aggregate Pier® elements will extend through 10 feet of loose clayey sand that would have otherwise required much larger and deeper footings to control settlement.

Geopier is installing 120 Geopier® elements to support a new hospital administration facility in Rusk, Texas. The Rammed Aggregate Pier® system is reinforcing soft clay soils in support of up to 305 kip column loads. Steel harnesses were installed in several pier locations to provide uplift resistance to the footings.

Geopier is in Indiana installing the Armorpact® system at the Buffalo Street Boardwalk. The use of Geopier rigid inclusions will be used to support a retaining wall over organic soils on the shore of downtown Warsaw. The Geopier Intermediate Foundation® solution creates stiff elements in weak soils and provides superior levels of performance for foundation settlement control.

Construction hits high gear at the Fort Hays State University Center for Student Success project in Hays, Kansas. The Geopier Impact® system is reinforcing the soft to medium stiff clays to support column loads of about 300 kips and wall loads of up to 11 kips per lineal foot. The use of the Geopier system eliminated the need for costly deep foundations.

Check out Ground Improvement Engineering's most recent blog post "Managing groundwater levels before, during and after ground improvement."

Happy to be in Culver, Indiana as the sun beams down on our project site! Geopier Grouted Impact® piers are being installed through organic-laden soils to support a two-story, lightly-loaded structure.