Innovative Piering was given the contract to design and build a foundation solution for a 20-story apartment building. One of the toughest constraints to the whole project was the compact working room. The job site provided only limited area for operations, laydown, staging, storage and parking. Because of the tight space at the job site, Innovative Piering worked to design an innovative solution for drilling operations that wouldn’t require a massive excavation and shoring operation. Instead, Innovative Piering opted for a solution that allowed drilling operations to take place at the existing grade. The total foundation required about 24 micropiles designed to provide 130kip design load. The foundation had a fairly high lateral load that had to be combatted via using 9 5/8

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