Materials and Road Research | Geotechnical Engineering | Foundations
Foundations Scoping
When you should coordinate with us for scoping purposes
If your project has any one of the following listed below, please contact Rich Lamb (rich.lamb@state.mn.us or 651-334-3563) for more information.
- Bridges
- New Bridge
- Bridge Replacement
- Temporary Bridges
- Bridge Rehab and Historic Bridges
- If you anticipate foundations work / involvement
- Box Culverts
- All box culverts with current or future bridge numbers
- Box culvert extensions
- Any culvert installed in a very deep trench
- Any culvert installed in poor soils
- Retaining Walls and Reinforced Slopes
- Standard Concrete Cantilever Walls
- Noise Walls
- Modular Block Walls (>4 ft. in height)
- Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls
- Sheet Pile Walls
- Visual Barriers
- Soil Nail Walls
- Soldier Pile Walls
- Reinforced Soil Slopes (RSS) (1:1)
- High Tension Cable Barrier (HTCB)
- Overhead Sign Structures
- High Mast Light Towers
- Signal Systems with long (>45 ft.) mast arms
- Embankments/roadways over poor soils
- Coordination with District soils engineer to help identify areas with known poor soils or poor geologic conditions
- Pavement or Slope Distress
- Slope Failures
- Landslides
- Sloughing
- Roadway Distress
- Bumps/dips in roadway
- Anything else that you anticipate needing foundations work / involvement