Foundation Supportworks

November and December were busy months for the FSI engineers and dealers with webinars and presentations. Dealers and FSI staff coordinated the offering of four webinar presentations that allowed dealers to either travel to engineer, architect or general contractor offices, or host these groups at their dealer facilities. Dealers that participated in the webinars included: Complete Basement Systems, Thrasher Basement Systems, Foundation Repair of Western Colorado, MidAmerica Basement Systems, Innovative Foundation Supportworks , and Perma-Seal Foundation Repair and Connecticut Basement Systems.

In addition to webinars, dealers also organized several other presentations.

• On November 6, 2009, Josh Wennmacher of MidAmerica Basement Systems organized for Jeff Kortan, PE to present to a large engineering firm in Rock Island, IL. The presentation was also broadcast to satellite offices in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri where representatives from Perma-Seal Foundation Repair, Midwest Basement Systems, Foundation Supportworks of Wisconsin, and Woods Basement Systems were also in attendance to provide lunch and answer questions.
• On November 20, 2009, Ken Abud and Mark Foldenauer of Ayers Foundation Supportworks organized for Jeff Kortan, PE and Kyle Olson, PE to present to a large A/E firm in Grand Rapids, MI.
• On December 9, 2009, Jamie Budiac of Foundation Supportworks of Wisconsin organized for Jeff Kortan, PE to present to a large general contractor in Appleton, WI with in-house A/E capabilities.
• On December 16, 2009, Michael Morrow of Kansas Basement and Foundation Repair organized for Jeff Kortan, PE and Don Deardorff, PE to present to the Wichita Chapter of SEAKM (Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri).

FSI Engineers from left to right: Don Deardorff, Kyle Olson, Jeff Kortan

The webinars and presentations focused on educating the audience about helical foundation systems, push pier systems, wall anchor systems, and supplemental crawl-space support systems. Presentations on helical foundation systems included helical terminology, advantages and disadvantages of round and square shaft helical piers and tiebacks, typical applications, calculation and verification of helical pile capacity, load tests per ASTM standards, and the International Code Council Evaluation Service, Inc. (ICC-ES) Acceptance Criteria 358.