Typical San Francisco Basement Foundation

This pacific heights single family home is a good example of a typical QSE construction project. We designed a new foundation for this 1895 Classic home. We shored up the 4 story home, then we excavated the earth below and beyond the tiny existing 1 car garage and made a 3 car garage and about 750 square feet of living space. Net result was a structural problem solved and a house made more useful and valuable. We utilized our patented shot-crete and mini pile method. New steel beams give added strength at the center post ♠line.

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Finished Home in Pacific Heights

We realize that as engineers, our role is to facilitate the finished product! We know that getting to the goal of a safe, secure, and sound home is reason people engage our services. We can level a house that has settled, we can create the lateral resistance a house needs to have the best chance of surviving an earthquake, and as we did in 1989, we can repair the damage an earthquake has done to a home in the fault zone of the SF Bay Area.

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San Francisco Foundation. Additional garage level living space.

In this Richmond district home we demolished an old foundation and excavated 2 feet in order to capture 900 square feet of living space. We underpinned the neighbor, and used
shot-crete technique to create high strength water resistance stem walls.

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