Geotechnical (Soils) Engineering
Miller Engineers & Scientists offers comprehensive geotechnical engineering services, including soil exploration, foundation analysis and design, settlement analysis, ground heat storage feasibility, and construction support.
Soil problems can cause expensive construction delays. It's easier and less costly to account for poor soil during design than to accommodate those conditions during construction. This is especially true with today's increasingly tight project budgets and schedules. The best way to avoid these unpleasant construction surprises is by incorporating a geotechnical engineer early in your design process.
Soil problems can cause expensive construction delays. It's easier and less costly to account for poor soil during design than to accommodate those conditions during construction. This is especially true with today's increasingly tight project budgets and schedules. The best way to avoid these unpleasant construction surprises is by incorporating a geotechnical engineer early in your design process.
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Geotechnical Engineering
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SAV+R (patent pending) foundation boardWhen backfill depths are large or a structure is unable to withstand typical lateral earth pressures, substantial geotechnical bracing systems or large volumes of geofoam blocks have been used as backfill to reduce the pressure against underground walls. In addition to lateral earth pressures, ground frost heave can create significant force on foundation walls within the upper several feet of soil, which can result in basement wall cracks and/or inward bulging of the wall. Both the lateral earth pressure and ground frost pressure can be reduced, thus avoiding costly pressure reduction systems and basement wall cracking and bulging, by using SAV+R Scalloped EPS foundation insulation board (invented by Miller, pat. pend.).
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