When Virginia Tech updated a key residential area for its Corps of Cadets known as the “upper quad,” F&R provided all our core services to support the project. During design, F&R worked with Virginia Tech’s architect, Clark Nexsen, to provide a subsurface exploration and geotechnical engineering report. The engineering recommendations concluded that Virginia Tech could construct the new buildings on shallow foundations supported by aggregate piers.

As Virginia Tech intended to renovate several existing structures as part of the project, F&R Environmental provided a hazardous materials survey in each building. Our industrial hygienists also provided abatement monitoring services to remove potentially harmful materials in both buildings. Following the completion of the contracted asbestos abatement work, the team provided a report documenting these activities and sample results, along with the field notes and sample logs.

Once construction was underway, F&R worked with the project team and the Virginia Tech Building Official to provide the required special inspections, CMT, and metals/NDT services. Our geostructural monitoring team also provided vibration monitoring services in adjacent structures.