Though the majority of Chicago's buildings use caisson foundations ... to vibration for traditional caissons or piling? Enter the small but mighty micro pile. Chicago Loop Alliance collaborated ...

In January, workers began drilling cement-reinforced micro-piles to provide watertight enclosures ... the ground around the tower’s faulty foundation block. During most of this year ...

Nevertheless, there are a number of ways to do so, including the use of micro piles. Elayache adds that foundations are also designed with a greater attention to the water board – where foundations ...

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...