Soil Improvement

The improvement of soft ground conditions can frequently minimize the requirement for a deep foundation when designing and building a superstructure’s foundation. By compacting, strengthening, or fixing soil masses and particles, specialized contractors frequently enhance the functionality of the ground.

*Note that inherent dangers are associated with these techniques, and thus they should only be implemented by trained and experienced specialty contractors, just like us.

The soil type alters both the effectiveness and cost of the soil improvement technique. Some of the soil improvement methods that we do :

2.1. DCM Method land construction

Surface solidification DCM method through floating top soil recycling

Process Illustration

Result

2.2. SOIL MIXING

Wet and dry soil mixing is used to provide excavation, tunneling, and foundation support in soft, cohesive soils. Binders are delivered in slurry form and dry-pumped using compressed air.

2.3. JET GROUTING

Jet grouting is an alternative to conventional grouting, chemical grouting, slurry trenching, underpinning, or compressed air or freezing in tunneling. It is effective across a range of soils and is a bottom-up process.

2.4. SOIL NAILING / SLOPE PROTECTION / EARTH ANCHOR

Soil nailing is used to reinforce soil for slopes, excavations, retaining walls, etc. It involves installing reinforcing bars into pre-drilled holes and grouting them at an inclination of 10-20 degrees. Shotcrete, concrete, or other grouting materials are applied to the excavation face to grout the reinforcing steel or nails.

2.5. Gravel Compaction Pile (GCP) / Sand Compaction Pile (SCP)

The Gravel/Sand Compaction Pile (GCP/SCP) method improves soft ground by using vibration to install gravel, sand, or any other similar material into soft ground via a casing pipe and form gravel/sand piles in the ground.