Buffalo Trail Elementary

Oftentimes the challenge with any school project is the schedule – these projects must be started after school lets out in the spring and completed before school starts up again in the fall.  With the structural slab replacement at Buffalo Trail, this urgency had no flexibility.  This was a structural slab to replace a concrete slab on grade which had been pushed around by expansive soils for years.  The slab supported all the external facility cabinets and electrical transformers, i.e. the school could not operate without this slab. 

Prior work had been completed at Buffalo Trail with the successful use of micropiles.  The project engineer elected to use this proven piling system to build a structural slab on micropiles and void to eliminate concern over future facilities movement.