Efficient, Reliable Solutions

Michels design-build capabilities ensure cost effective, engineered solutions for even the most complex deep foundations projects. We work with you to design and build the right foundations for your next drilled shaft project. We are conditioned to working on challenging sites, including urban, high-traffic, low-headroom and off of barges.

We partner with our customers and use sophisticated testing to make sure you are getting the foundation that will safely support your load.

Our team includes Licensed Professional Engineers (PE)*, Licensed Structural Engineers (SE)*, and Multi-disciplinary (Civil, structural, geotechnical) Engineers.

Techniques include:

Augercast Piles
Drilled Shafts (bell/rock sockets)
Driven Piles
Secant Piles
Helical Piers
Micropiles
Mini-Caissons
O-Cell testing

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Projects

Deep Foundations

Yesler Terrace

Washington

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Yesler Terrace

Michels scope of work is to install 242 drilled shafts to support the piers for anew bridge. The installation of the drilled shafts was completed with the simultaneous use of up to four drill rigs. Utilizing barges, 233 drilled shafts were installed in the river. Michels crews also installed 7-foot and 10-foot permanent steel casing into bedrock for each shaft.

Deep Foundations

I-74 Mississippi River Bridge

Illinois

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I-74 Mississippi River Bridge

Michels Construction, Inc. installed 857 H-piles 60 feet deep to bedrock for a deep foundation system for the R1VER project, a mixed-use waterfront development.

Deep Foundations

R1VER

Wisconsin

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R1VER

Michels, one of North America's largest deep foundations contractors, built a secant pile structure for an underground power substation at the base of a multi-use building in the city's historic Third Ward.

Deep Foundations

Juneau Town Substation

Wisconsin

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Juneau Town Substation

Michels performed the removal and replacement of walkway and pier structures along the eastern extent of the De Pere Dam.

Deep Foundations

De Pere Dam Walkway Replacement

Wisconsin

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De Pere Dam Walkway Replacement

Michels was contracted to design and install secant shafts as temporary earth retention to allow for the excavation of approximately 71 feet below grade to install a new pump station.

Deep Foundations

Pump Station 4 Reconstruction

Illinois

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Pump Station 4 Reconstruction

Quality means doing it right
when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

We do that.

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