Our structural team has designed foundations for more than 200 large machines, across a diverse spectrum of industrial applications. We have provided foundation design solutions all across the U.S., England, Germany, Egypt, and Mexico to clients like Alstom Power, Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere, BAe Airbus, Babcock & Wilcox, Chrysler, General Dynamics, Hamilton Sundstrand and McDonnell Douglas. Our expertise meets the requirements of sophisticated, computer-integrated manufacturing systems. We have also designed isolation bases for test stands, and compressor bases. On several projects, we’ve also provided full A/E design services for the building additions to house these machines.

We designed 10 large, precision milling machine foundations and provided the architectural, structural and MEP engineering design for this 350,000 SF heavy industrial renovation. Alstom Power manufactures the world’s largest gas and steam turbines for use in U.S. power-generation plants. The $80M project was designed to LEED Silver standards and the HVAC was engineered to maintain precise temperature requirements in the machine areas.

Our structural engineers designed the computer manufacturing machine bases and foundations, universal foundations and chip/coolant filtration systems to accommodate 10 Super-Profiler milling machines. We also designed foundations for five large Giddings & Lewis machines. This included support utilities, rework/relocation of stairs and rework of a supported floor slab. We provided full A/E services for this 400,000 SF Boeing factory.

We designed 13 machine foundation installations. Eleven machines were connected to a 400-foot transfer rail with set-up/storage assembly stations.

We designed and managed construction for nine machine foundations for Babcock & Wilcox’s Barberton, OH facility. Machine manufacturers included Ingersoll, Waldrich Coburg, Giddings & Lewis and Mitsubishi. We are currently designing a foundation for a large Carnaghi vertical milling machine at B & W’s Mount Vernon, IN facility. This machine is capable of milling 200-ton reactor vessels.

We provided foundation and infrastructure design for a dual pallet vertical access high velocity profiler, transporter, set-up and storage stands. The 107 foot long x 48 foot wide machine, weighs 4 million pounds and accommodates 60 foot pallets with a deflection tolerance measured in .01 hundredths of a millimeter. The foundation covers 40,000 SF. We designed the skin and environmental system to enclose the machine and contain the chips and mist.

We designed an engine block line with continuous foundations to support a process of 600-foot lengths; a crankshaft line of foundations 480 feet long; a cylinder-head line of foundations 240 feet long; and a cylinder-head wash station. In Phase 2, we designed 12 machine foundations and the connecting underground chip removal system.

We engineered the bases/ foundations for seven super-profiler machines, a coordinate measuring machine, AS/RS WIP storage units and a thermal plant. We were the project managers for the entire scope of work and delivered a total renovation of this manufacturing facility, including the 56,000 SF storage facility, a new thermal plant for all heating and cooling and a new, 12,000-volt primary to secondary power service requiring six 2,500-amp substations.