Construction Magazine November 2018 | Page 143

NORTH AMERICA
The inner corrugated metal pipe is ready for backfill
143 complete at least five foundations per week under favourable site conditions . “ We work with specialty foundation contractors like JBS Energy Solutions , Blount Contracting , and Wind Stone Construction who have honed their skills for installing our foundation design . Some engineer , procure , construction ( EPC ) contractors , such as Blattner Energy have resourced so that they can construct our foundations on multiple projects simultaneously ,” says Loftis . “ Terracon has spent the last few years bringing the P & H Foundation up to conventional standards of modelling so we could get that in front of the independent engineering community . Once we started doing that , we got the industry and market comfortable with Terracon assuming this role as the engineer of record .
“ It has been a team effort . We have a tight group including Allan Henderson , the inventor of the foundation , two preferred materials suppliers ( Contech Engineering Solutions and Williams Form Engineering ) and a quality assurance firm ( Structural Observation
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