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Podcast: GBA Podcast
Episode: #86 - Case History - Dream Home or Nightmare instead?
Description: GBA Case History Series – Case History #86 - Dream Home or Nightmare instead?
Summary
GBA has published over 100 case histories based on real-life events that have happened to geoprofessional firms. This episode in the series explores Case History #86 where the GBA member firm conducted a geotechnical engineering study and performed 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 analyses. Eight months after construction was complete, the foundation started to move, creating distress in the slab and so...