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Category Archives: New Construction Foundation Support

How to Protect New Home Construction from Foundation Failure

Before building your home, if a soils engineer finds that the soil where the foot print of your house will be can’t support the load, there are techniques to handle that. Steel reinforcing bars, larger and deeper footings, and installing new construction piles often solves the problem. Continue reading

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Building A New Home? Get a Soils Engineer First

Do new homes have foundation failures? You bet. Before you build yours, get a soils engineer to test the load bearing capacity and content of the soil, and the discuss the results with your builder. Continue reading

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Brackett Installs New Construction Piering

While older buildings definitely need foundation repair more often than new construction, when building is done on ground that doesn’t provide adequate support, new construction helical piers that are cemented into the footing become invaluable for preventing future foundation failure. Continue reading

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