Improving The Ground We Build On

摘要

Some of today's most challenging design and construction issues spring from the most common and prosaic element of any project, the earth it's built on. Often, it won't support what you want to build. Or, it'will tend to slide from where it is to where you don't want it—out from under a foundation, for example, or from a hillside onto a roadway. Earth retention, soil stabilization, and ground improvement are becoming more and more crucial technologies as developers find themselves working with sites that would have been considered unbuildable in the past. The result is a thriving business offering the engineer a wider palette of options than ever before.