Synergy Earth Systems, LLC is a geotechnical design-construct firm established in 1996 to meet a significant need in the industry regarding weak soils and difficult site geometry.

Owners, engineers, architects and contractors are encountering difficult and perplexing soil problems with a greater degree of frequency. Invariably these problems lead to a significant increase in construction cost when approached in a conventional manner. The additional costs are often compounded since the solution usually extends construction time. The use of soil improvement technologies to deal with adverse soil conditions has gained widespread acceptance due to the notable advancements that have been made in the past twenty years. A partial listing of the most commonly used technologies are as follows:

Geosynthetic Reinforcement

Vibroflotation

Stone Columns

Dynamic Compaction

Wick Drains

Chemical Grouting

These technologies are referred to as “soil improvement” technologies since they are based on changing or improving the physical characteristics of the soil. They affect changes in shear strength and compressibility or they reinforce the soil so that the treated soil matrix behaves differently under the design loading conditions. These changes make possible the economic construction of facilities such as buildings, roadways, levees, etc. on sites where subsurface conditions would otherwise make construction too expensive or even impossible.