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 ...

The sinkhole, as well as substantial soil heaps existing on the site, required more than 300 micro-pile foundations across the site which had to be driven to bedrock depth, including some to ...

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