Foundation Design​

Foundation Design​

• Foundation designs of the full spectrum of buildings and structures is undertaken including low rise to multi- storey structures.
• We have expertise of foundation design of structures on difficult ground or with special design requirements.
• Investigation to have a proper understanding of the ground and foundation conditions, including those of adjacent buildings and structures, is crucial to enable proper and efficient foundation design.
• In addition to more straightforward conventional strip or pad foundation design more specialist foundation designs and analysis are undertaken. These include foundation immediate and long-term settlement analysis, bored and driven piled foundations, reinforced concrete ground beam, raft, deep and water retaining basement construction.
• Design of foundations upon shrinkable clays soils. Design solutions adopting deep pad or piled foundations with reinforced concrete ground beams or slabs are regularly used where particular adverse ground conditions.
• Foundations designed for dynamically sensitive or critical structures have been designed.
• Designs of underpinning or other foundation stabilization or improvement works are part of the expert comprehensive design service we provide.