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Experience isn’t only knowing what to add to a foundation. It’s knowing what you can leave out.

At Hereward Hall in March, heave protection and a piling mat were both still open questions at tender stage. Testing showed neither was needed, which saved cost and time across 19 homes.

At Otterham Quay Lane, … more

Every site we work on starts with the same question: what is the ground actually doing?

Our projects page shows a selection from the 500+ projects we’ve delivered since 2014. A care home on shrinkable clay with Giant Sequoias nearby. Apartments beside a live railway. Housing on deep Made Ground over chalk. … more

A big thank you to the developers who keep coming back to us.

Around 72% of our work comes from clients we’ve worked with before, and we don’t take that for granted. Every repeat project starts with a conversation and a lot of trust, and it’s made us better … more

From the air, it’s hard to tell this site was a pear orchard until recently.

Underground, it made a difference. The old orchard meant every plot at Otterham Quay Lane fell within tree influence, over shallow clay that could swell back once the trees were gone.

So we’re building piled rafts … more

Last week the office got competitive over pumpkin weight. 🎃🎃

Congratulations to @Giles Gordon-Saker, whose 3.8kg guess was closest to the 4.064kg weight.

Happy Halloween from all of us at SPEEDECK!

#HappyHalloween #Pumpkins

At tender stage on Hereward Hall, two questions were still open: would the plots need heave protection, and would the site need a piling mat?

Either one would have added cost and time across 19 homes.

The ground investigation answered both. The gravel wasn’t shrinkable, and the clay below it sat mostly under the water table with no signs of drying … more

Strip foundations are the default on a lot of sites, and on good, consistent ground that’s fair enough.

It gets harder when the ground isn’t consistent: Made Ground, shrinkable clay, trees nearby, or depths that keep growing once you start digging.

We’ve written up the geotechnical criteria we use to decide between a raft … more

Trees like the one behind this slab are why the foundations at Brockeridge Road were designed the way they were.

We’re finishing the piled rafts for plots 4–21 at Freeman Homes’ new development in Twyning, a site of 21 net-zero homes. The ground is shrinkable clay with groundwater about a metre down, and the site is … more