Member-firm conducts geotechnical engineering study and perform COMET services during earthwork for a builder on a single-family home in an area where expansive shales are interbedded with sandstone. The member firm advised for slope-stability analysis. Eight months after the construction, the foundation started to move creating distress in the slab and some walls, remediating attempts were unsuccessful, resulting in litigation.
agreement-formatted proposal, Atterburg limits, betterment, Colorado, CoMET, construction-claims attorney, moisture and density testing, expansive soils, hired gun, spread footings, slope-stability analysis, geotechnical engineering, structural-slab system
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