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High quality solutions for your foundations, specialists in underpinnings for safe and stable homes

We specialize in offering high-quality solutions for your home, also addressing recesses. Underpinnings are essential to correct foundation pathologies, being the action and effect of repairing the foundations of an existing building.

As for underpinnings, they are used to correct pathologies in the foundations of existing buildings. This process is essential to maintain the structural stability and safety of the home. We understand the importance of offering comprehensive and efficient solutions for your foundation needs, whether for new projects or to correct existing problems in pre-existing structures. Our commitment to quality and excellence distinguishes us as leaders in the field of construction and civil engineering. 

Phases for execution of underpinnings

Why is underlining necessary?

It will be necessary to resort to underlining for:

  • Defect of execution.
  • Poorly resolved project.
  • Variations in areas surrounding the structure.
  • Variations in the hypotheses according to which the structure was designed.

Types of underpinnings

Although there is a solution for each particular case, a specialist is needed to address the problem and find the best economic and technical solution.

We are experts capable of giving you the best solution for your foundation problem.

In the case of underpinnings, although each problem would have to be studied carefully, we can divide them according to: the deterioration of the foundation and the decrease in the load capacity of the ground.

The deterioration of the foundation

We would give way to the use of injections that could be compensation injections, consolidation injections, armed injections, etc.

  • Reinforce the existing foundation with the introduction of additional reinforcement, injected bolts, tensioners or post-tensioning.
  • Reinforce with strapping with waist beams: when cracks or breaks appear in the beams and a steel ring is placed around them to exert pressure.
  • Demolition and replacement of existing foundations.

Decrease in the carrying capacity of the land

In these cases it is required:

  • Increase the size of the area subjected to loads.
  • Transmit the load to deeper strata.
  • Increase shear resistance and ground deformability.
  • Special highlights.

Thanks to the combination of the execution of underpinnings with other special foundation techniques, Cimentaterra has solved works of great technical complexity in an economical and efficient way.