CNC Foundations provides ground improvement services through use of Vibratory Stone Columns in the southeast states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
On this project, CNC Foundations provided a Ground Improvement solution of 8,000 psf bearing capacity and reduced overall settlements to less than one (1) inch under the dead and live loads of Western Carolina University’s new STEM building.
WCU is one of just many schools and universities across the U.S. in which CNC Foundations has provided geotechnical contracting work for.
Due to the stiff silts and dense sands on this job site, CNC Foundations pre-drilled the VSCs. The proposed structure had large exterior retaining walls up to 15 feet wide with embedded building columns, so CNC Foundations design and VSC layout had to account for the retaining wall loads, soil backfill loads, building column loads, and the dead weight of the walls themselves. Additionally, several large shear walls on-site had net tension loads, so CNC Foundations designed and installed uplift anchors to resist these uplift forces.
To learn more about CNC Foundations Ground Improvement solutions, visit cncfoundations.com/ground-improvement/