FTG News

FTG Attends ASCE 32nd Central Pennsylvania Geotechnical Conference

Earlier this month Team FTG traveled north to Hershey, PA for the ASCE 32nd Central Pennsylvania Geotechnical Conference! The three-day event hosted around 65 exhibitors and over 400 industry attendees from academia, constructors, consulting engineers and government agencies. Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Kevin Tehansky, connected with attendees and enjoyed seeing familiar faces at FTG’s exhibit. Despite […]

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Team FTG Fishing Adventure

Team FTG grabbed their fishing rods and hit the Chesapeake in search of fish and quality team time! The trip was through Miss Susie Charters, with Captain Greg Buckner, aboard a classic “Chesapeake Dead-rise” fishing vessel. Departing out of beautiful Solomons, Maryland, team members fished hard the entire afternoon and into the evening, all while

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Drilled Shaft Installation – Baltimore County, MD

Drilled shaft installation has just begun for the retaining walls for the I-95 Express Lane Expansion. FTG is working with Hillis-Carnes Engineering, General Contractor Allan Myers and foundation contractor Clearwater Construction to implement inspection of the drilled shaft program that satisfies the specified structural demands of retaining wall foundations. FTG is on site to verify

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Pile Driving Project in Southern Maryland

Hovering through the Atlantic Coastal Plain region, FTG’s drone services captured timber pile driving operations for a project in Southern Maryland. As the Geotechnical Engineer of Record for the pile foundations, FTG provided installation driving criteria to support anticipated structural loads. Through the soft tidal marsh deposits of the coastal area, timber piles are suitable

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Nicholas Youngs

Nick Youngs – Team FTG Employee Spotlight!

We are celebrating Nicholas Youngs, E.I.T with this month’s Employee Spotlight! Nick is essential to our teams’ approach to quality response. He leads a progressive skill application to design implementation and quality materials testing and reporting. Additionally, Nick is personable and collaborative while leading our projects to success. Team FTG’s spotlight is clearly brighter with

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Foundation Test Group, Inc. Welcomes Alex Bollinger as he Joins Team FTG’S Full-Time Technical Staff!

Alex Bollinger joins team FTG, full-time, following his recent graduation from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Science, B.S. Geology. After three summers working on our team as a field technician, Alex discovered a particular passion for promoting project specific schedules by implementing design quality control. He especially articulated an appreciation

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FTG Lab and Field Services Ensure Construction Materials Reliability

Concrete is the most common building material in the world due its strength and reliability. In modern times, with the incredible variety of concrete mix designs and uses, a good QA/QC program is integral to maintaining those characteristics. As strong as concrete can be, there are quite a few variables that can lead to reduced

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SuperPile ’21 Successful Three-Day Event – Philadelphia, PA

SuperPile 2021 held in Philadelphia, PA from June 23rd-25th, 2021 was a great success. In the new world of Zoom and Teams meetings we often underestimate the importance of direct face-to-face meetings. While those platforms provide an important service, they can not recreate the full exchange of ideas that meeting in person does. It is

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Lateral Load Testing at National Harbor Safety Pier – Fort Washington, MD

Over the Potomac River, floating docks and suspended jacking systems were used to carry out lateral load testing of driven pipe piles for a proposed Public Safety Pier at the nation’s harbor. As an industry leader in deep foundation testing, FTG got the call to develop a load testing program for structural pile design confirmation

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WBE

Foundation Test Group (FTG) is a certified Women-Owned (WBE) engineering and testing company networked to support design and construction projects for a diverse group of Engineers, Architects and Contractors as well as multiple state and local governments. Our firm seeks new relationships with teaming partners to provide state of the art support in a strong, but niche market.

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