Earthen fills support most of our civil infrastructure, including waste containment facilities. Most infrastructure is founded by some percentage of fills, base fills, replacement fills and backfills. Over many decades now engineers and contractors have operated with many assumptions when designing and constructing earthen fills. These assumptions force engineers and contractors into trial & error exercises in their process controls, which inadvertently compromises engineering and hinders construction. As a result, engineers and contractors have not been able to design and build earthen fills to meet engineering requirements knowingly or cost-effectively. Consequently, earthen fills are the only element of construction built with
SSCE® solutions:
- Unprecedented control that:
- stabilizes strength during moisture change
- eliminates saturation settlements
- minimizes/controls shrink-swell
- minimizes permeability
- minimizes moisture content potential
- Construction:
- Minimized or eliminated needs to change moisture during construction
- Expanded moisture ranges for construction
- Expanded soil ranges for construction
- No more assumptions or trial & error exercises
- Minimized or eliminated lift reworks
- Maximal production in fill construction
- Reduced construction costs
- Real-time control with direct data verification
- Results:
- Best possible construction performance records - proven by direct data verification records
- Stabilized foundations & pavements
- Corrected environmental and seepage control fills
- Minimized or eliminated maintenance & repair costs after construction, long term
- Minimized or eliminated E&C risk before, during and after construction
- Solution to the greatest problem in infrastructure
Solving the Greatest Problem in Infrastructure
ESOL removes the assumptions and trial & error exercises from the engineering and construction of infrastructure fills:
- giving owners, designers and builders the business controls they need
- serving all process control methods used in the industry
- achieving our standards of practice
- protecting construction liabilities & warranties
- reducing construction costs
- solving the greatest problem in infrastructure
News & Highlights
- ESOL celebrates over 500 projects successfully served in six states across the US (September 2017)
- View Typical Construction Results Compared to All Other Projects
- Read about The Construction Industry Dilemma solved by ESOL
- Learn about The Most Critical Component of Ground Risk Today
- National Press Release (Business Wire, National Policy Circuit, June 2017) - ESOL Solves Source of Ground Movement Problems Plaguing Global Infrastructure
- The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has posted an Engineering and Construction Bulletin on its Technical Excellence Network (TEN) providing for the use of ESOL's tools for process control solutions of earth fills supporting its civil and military infrastructure.
- TxDOT has amended its standard specification for earthen fill construction so that TxDOT’s compaction standard can be applied to actual fill compaction in construction. This amendment (TxDOT Embankment -132-011) provides for the use of data-verified field curves (and corrected lab curves), and enables engineers and contractors to know optimum moisture-density in construction for control and assurance that compaction standards are achieved in construction. This specification is also approved by the FHWA and the AGC.
- Client Press Release: ESOL tools solve problems and maximize production at industrial plant expansion in Louisiana (Aug 2015)
“Advancing Industry, Improving Economy, and Bettering our World” ®