Commercial shoring/underpinning:

Also, specializing in shoring, sheeting and underpinning of existing foundations,  parking garages, shoring for tank removal and monuments have been a welcome challenge but yet industrious. Bulley & Andrews, Pepper Construction, RW Collins, ABD Tank, Ragner Benson, Inc., RTE Environmental, Crest Consulting Group, Coder Taylor & Assoc., Centex Homes, Ryland Homes, Wiss Janney, Elstner Assoc., W.B. Olson, Inc., International Contractors, Capitol Construction are a list of few engineers, architects, construction managers, general contractors and developers that we correlate work with.

Dave Pate & Sons merits the foundation repairs to the following:

    • The Clarence Buckingham Fountain, Chicago, IL.

    • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

    • Winnetka Congregational Church, Winnetka, IL.

    • River Forest Administration Building, River Forest, IL.

    • Gateway Arch, Broadview Convalescent Center, Broadview, IL.

    • Graceland Cemetery's front entrance and concrete perimeter walls, Chicago, IL.

    • Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, IL.

    • Faith Temple Church, Evanston, IL.

 

The 68 year old Clarence Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park, was an unusual project to say the least.  It's renovation took place in 1994-1995.  The fountain's 5 segmented, 27 foot solid marble bowl serves as a pool to catch water that spews 100,000 gallons per minute.  Over the years, moisture seeped inside the fountain's foundation.  Freezing and thawing only aggravated the damage.  Dave Pate & Sons commitment entitled shoring up the 200-ton basin for 6 months while numerous sub-contractors dismantled the lower and intermediate basins, cap stones, consoles, pilasters and granite columns to get to the inner core of the fountain's walls to refurbish it's pumps and motors.

 

Column underpinning:

Chicago, Illinois - To underpin and raise 2 interior, 4-story wood columns 4 50-ton, 6-inch diameter steel pipe piles were implemented.  Heavy channel irons were "through-bolted" in the 2 columns at the crawl space and first floor to include the wood corbel and beams.  50-ton hydraulic rams were then placed on all 4 sides, raising the 2 columns and 4 floors 4 to 5 inches to a compromised level and secured.

 

Interior column repair & floor leveling of a 90 year old Chicago warehouse.

 

Specializing in Foundation Repair * Underpinning * Sheeting * Shoring


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