Out of every geotechnical challenge, Geopier® finds a way to make rainbows. Peterson Contractors Inc is working in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ on a new mixed-use complex. Geopier GP3® elements are being installed to reinforce and improve the undocumented loose to medium dense silty sand fill and medium stiff clay soils. Using Geopier Rammed Aggregate Pier® technology saved the owner money (on an otherwise costly remove and replace option) and helped the GC expedite their construction schedule.

The Geopier GP3® system is being installed to support floor slabs and foundations for a new health clinic in Minneapolis, MN. The Geopier® system is installed to reinforce the existing clay and clayey sand fill to tag the underlying sands.

Geopier Impact® elements were installed to support a new warehouse in San Benedetto dei Marsi in Abruzzo, Italy. The soft soils and column loads of up to 1100 kN required a robust ground improvement system to meet project requirements. A total of 388 Impact piers were installed to reinforce through the soft clays and loose sands to 7m depth and control settlements to 25mm

Geopier is happy to have worked on support of this MSE wall in South Carolina with Contour Mining and Terracon. Due to wall height, high bearing pressure requirements, and a thick layer of loose soils, Geopier® elements were installed to 38 ft deep, including challenges of working near the existing structure.

Soilsolution S.A. de C.V. is installing Geopier GP3® Rammed Aggregate Pier® elements to support an industrial warehouse in Jalisco, Mexico. The Intermediate Foundation® solution reduce the use of concrete and reinforcing steel by using an increased soil bearing capacity, and speeding up the construction schedule.

Geopier Impact® piers are being installed through 15 feet of sandy clay and sand fill with urban debris to attain a bearing capacity of up to 8,000 psf in downtown Indianapolis. The Rammed Aggregate Pier® elements will support a 340,000 gsf 13 story mixed-use podium apartment project consisting of 206 tower units, retail and office units, a 4-level parking structure and podium deck featuring a pool.

A bio-energy facility is expanding in Williams, CA and Foundation Service Corporation worked in the pit shown over a temporary working platform that would otherwise be an open subgrade of soft saturated clay to install Geopier X1® elements through the soft shallow clay and into a competent underlying clay. Uplift harness were installed with some of the elements and embedded into the stiff clay to provide resistance to transient uplift forces to optimize the foundation dimensions and save the owner significant cost on concrete and an alternate over excavation option.