The number one cause of drainage problems is improper grading, and it's more common than most homeowners realize.When your ...

Jim Fontaine, CEO of Tella Firma, poses for a photograph in front of the suspended foundation of a home construction site in Dallas, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. A technology that Tella Firma uses protects ...

Foundation heave is the uplift of the foundation caused by wet, expanding soil beneath a slab floor. This uplift occurs when it is dry outside your foundation and wet underneath it. Foundation heave ...

As any avid gardener knows, having the right soil in your garden is one of the most important steps in achieving healthy plant growth. Unfortunately, homeowners with heavy clay soil in their yards ...

My college major was geology. At the time I was in school, I had no idea how valuable this degree would be once I became a full-time builder. There’s a very good chance I was the only builder in ...

STEVEN DERSE, the owner of a corporate travel business in Nashville, cannot feel his house move, but he can hear it. “It’s an eerie creaking sound,” he said, and it echoes throughout his two-story ...

Nextracker, a US-based provider of ground mount solar tracker technologies, announced NX Foundation Solutions, a suite of products and services that expand the range of soil conditions that Nextracker ...