What is Geostructural Engineering? | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer “Geostrucutral engineering” is a term that has become increasingly common in the specialty foundation construction community in the past 10 to 15 years. Like too many terms in architecture, engineerin...

#Geostructural #engineering is an interdisciplinary specialty comprising elements of #structuralengineering, #geotechnicalengineering and #constructionengineering. It's not just #geotechnical #design by another name.
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What are the Alternatives to Pier Underpinning? | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer A common application of underpinning is maintaining the stability of the foundations for adjacent structures during excavation on urban sites. If the excavation is deeper than the foundation depth for...

Pier underpinning is relatively expensive and high-risk. So what are the alternatives?
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From the Files: Lebanon City Hall Underpinning | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Last week, Lebanon Opera House, the nonprofit arts and culture organization that operates the performing arts venue of the same name, kicked off its celebration of the theater's centennial with a gran...

RJDCE provided underpinning specialty engineering services for the renovation of Lebanon (NH) City Hall, which presented technical and practical challenges.
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Insights from Site-Structural Desk Studies for Urban Construction
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7th Annual Mid-Summer Reading - Content Special Email from     Should Temporary Structures be Designed with Higher Allowable Stresses? Traditionally, designers of temporary structures for use in construction had little guidance binding on their des

For your summer reading needs, the 2025: 7th Annual Mid-Summer Reading - Content Special Newsletter (although first year on Bluesky!)
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Site-Structural Engineering for the Urban Environment | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Having projects in the urban environment representing a large proportion of my career experience, I am always a little surprised when I encounter design professionals and contractors who do not fully ...

Perhaps #engineering and #riskmanagement for #construction on #urban sites would be better appreciated if it had a name: "Site-Structural Engineering for the Urban Environment"
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Why the Design Team for Urban Projects Should Consider Support of Excavation | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer A while back, I looked at a small support of excavation project in a major city that illustrated some of the issues that can arise when excavation support and underpinning are not considered during th...

"Why the Design Team for Urban Projects Should Consider Support of Excavation"
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Services | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer provides engineering investigations, analysis and design, and construction risk management services to a variety of stakeholders in construction projects, exis...

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What a Building Owner Should Know About Underpinning | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer An environmental consultant I know once showed me a photograph of a deep excavation he had visited on a site tour. The excavation had required underpinning of a couple of brick, bearing wall buildings...

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Your Building is Probably Weightless | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Well, not really...some explanation is in order. The bearing capacity is the primary design parameter for proportioning shallow foundations (i.e. footings and mats). If the average pressure applied by...

"While a useful concept, the bearing capacity is not a real physical parameter." Blog: Your Building is Probably Weightless
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What Owners and Design Professionals Should Know About Underpinning | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer by Richard J. Driscoll, P.E. Consulting Engineer Underpinning is the term applied to a variety of methods used to re-support a structure's foundation, usually to a deeper bearing depth. Generally, und...

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Welcome | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer (RJDCE) provides consulting structural and foundation engineering and construction risk management services to construction project stakeholders in the northea...

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From the Files: Lebanon City Hall Underpinning | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer Last week, Lebanon Opera House, the nonprofit arts and culture organization that operates the performing arts venue of the same name, kicked off its celebration of the theater's centennial with a gran...

RJDCE provided underpinning specialty engineering in connection with the renovation of Lebanon (NH) City Hall, which presented technical and practical challenges.
#underpinning #foundation #geostructural #SiteStructural #engineering #design #construction
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What a Building Owner Should Know About Underpinning | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer An environmental consultant I know once showed me a photograph of a deep excavation he had visited on a site tour. The excavation had required underpinning of a couple of brick, bearing wall buildings...

"What a Building Owner Should Know About Underpinning" www.richardjdriscoll.com/2016/02/what...
#structuralengineering #civilengineering #underpinning #foundations #geostructural #SiteStructural #engineering #design #construction #constructionengineering #riskmanagement

What is Geostructural Engineering? | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer “Geostrucutral engineering” is a term that has become increasingly common in the specialty foundation construction community in the past 10 to 15 years. Like too many terms in architecture, engineerin...

#Geostructural #engineering is an interdisciplinary specialty comprising elements of #structuralengineering, #geotechnicalengineering and #constructionengineering. It's not just #geotechnical #design by another name.
#SiteStructural #construction
www.richardjdriscoll.com/2021/06/what...

What’s Wrong with Commodity Geotechnical Reports | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer A couple of weeks ago, I was using a geotechnical report to develop a critical parameter for design of a particular foundation system. Like so many geotechnical reports I see, this report had many of ...

While commodity #geotechnical services are less expensive, they lead to higher #construction cost overall through excessive conservatism in #design and higher #risk of claims and delays.
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What are the Alternatives to Pier Underpinning? | Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer A common application of underpinning is maintaining the stability of the foundations for adjacent structures during excavation on urban sites. If the excavation is deeper than the foundation depth for...

Pier underpinning is relatively expensive and high-risk. So what are the alternatives?
#structuralengineering #geotechnicalengineering #foundation #geostructural #SiteStructural #engineering #design #construction #riskmanagment #consulting #underpinning
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The number 2025 above water with fireworks in the foreground

Wishing you and yours a healthy, safe, prosperous and happy new year.
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