When I talk with people in the Architecture/Engineering/Construction industry, I often find that a lot of people working on building projects have complaints about the foundation engineering on those projects. These complaints have a few common themes:

• Inadequate scope or data collection for subsurface explorations and geotechnical reports;
• Excessively conservative foundation design recommendations;
• Inappropriate, incomplete or poorly applied foundation construction recommendations;
• Inability or unavailability of the geotechnical engineer to contribute to the design development process and refine their foundation design recommendations and parameters as the project evolves.

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