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Foundation Specialists, Inc. Design & Build Contractor. Half Century of Successful Horizontal & Vertical Construction & Deep Foundations Projects.

Foundation Specialists, Inc.

General Building Contractor & General Engineering

PCAB CONTRACTORS' LICENSE 7437 (AAAA)

NCR OFFICE : 4th Fl. Legaspi Towers 200, 107 Paseo De Roxas,

Makati City 1226, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Phone +63-2-8817-6826 (PLDT) / +63-995-001-0698 (GLOBE)

+63-920-639-3371 (SMART)

E-Mail : Click this Link to access e-mail address

Foundation Specialists, Inc. is ISO 9001- 2015 Certified

As the pioneer of deep foundation works in the Philippines, Foundation Specialists Inc., has evolved into providing multi-disciplinary engineering and technical expertise to various stakeholders for 30 years. Steadfast in our values of honesty, integrity, and reliability, FSI remains to be customer-focused as we become one of the premier specialists in General Building and General Engineering in the country.

Foundation Specialists Inc., a prestigious, respectable general contractor, envisions to be one of the leading experts in the field of General Building and General Engineering known to contribute infrastructure growth to developing countries.

OUR VISION

OUR MISSION

With half century of successful operations in the construction industry, Foundation Specialists, Inc. has built a legacy rooted in technical expertise, innovation, and performance. Holding a PCAB Contractors’ License No. 7437 (AAAA)—the highest category issued by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board—our firm is recognized for delivering complex, high-impact foundation and structural solutions across the country.

Founded on the principles of precision engineering and project integrity, Foundation Specialists, Inc. offers a full spectrum of services including deep foundation systems, micro-piling, underpinning, ground improvement, structural retrofitting, and earth retention systems. Our multidisciplinary team of engineers, project managers, and technical personnel is dedicated to solving challenging subsurface and structural conditions through a rigorous and adaptive design-build approach.

Since its inception, Foundation Specialists, Inc. has been known for consistently achieving a high level of customer satisfaction, completing projects ahead of schedule, maintaining high-quality work standards, and practicing sound financial management. Over the years, the company has also established a strong and competent design engineering capability.

Pioneering Solutions in Foundation and Infrastructure Development

Foundation Specialists, Inc. has been engaging in the construction industry for nearly five decades, specializing in a broad range of large-scale projects. These include major infrastructure works such as flyovers, bridges, underpasses, overpasses, wharfs, piers, tunnels, roads, mass rail transit systems, and other complex infrastructure developments. The company is also experienced in constructing various types of buildings—residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional—as well as industrial plants and multi-level basements. In addition, FS undertakes extensive foundation works and land development projects, including site development, resettlement, and reclamation. As a pioneer in the field of foundation engineering, FS has introduced innovative technologies in both design and construction methods for special foundations. These include large diameter bored piles, barrette piles, diaphragm walls, tie-back anchor systems, slurry walls, grout plugs, multi-stage injected micro piles, soil cement columns, vertical drains, ground anchoring, and soil stabilization techniques, among others.

ALORAGAT BRIDGE

NSC - National Steel Corporation

DACUDAO-LAUREL-BUHANGIN FLY-OVER

PRINCE PLAZA II

KALAYAAN PUMP STORAGE PLANT

PASIG RIVER BRIDGE OF LRT-1

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS

PALUBLOB BRIDGE

TRANSMISSION LINES

PCAB CONTRACTORS' LICENSE 7437 (AAAA)

NCR Office : 4th Fl. Legaspi Towers 200, 107 Paseo De Roxas,

Makati City 1226, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Phone +63-2-8817-6826 (PLDT) / +63-995-001-0698 (GLOBE)

+63-920-639-3371 (SMART)

E-Mail : mail@foundation-specialists.com

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NSC - National Steel Corporation Plant Complex - Iligan City - Mindanao - Philippines

To illustrate [FS] Foundation Specialists, Inc. Background and Capabilities, we have chosen the aerial picture (here above) of the [NSC] National Steel Corporation Plants' Complex including NSC Port and Harbor, of which Foundation Specialists was the Design and Build General Contractor during the 10 years of the Expansion Plan. In fact, as NSC General Contractor, the works done by [FS] Foundation Specialists, Inc. have successfully encompassed the full spectrum of Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Deep Foundations & Soil Stabilization,, Land Development, Marine Works, Port & Harbor. FS has built all the new plants shown in the pictures, [machineries were supplied by Blow Knox, Steel Mills' design Supervision and supply of structural steel by US Steel ]. FS also retrofitted the pre-existing plants, has designed and built the Mills' deep Pits [supported by permanently anchored diaphragm walls], built the whole structures of rolling mill from deep foundations to Gantry Cranes and Roof, Hot Mill, Temper Mill, Hot Strip Mill, using Top-Down Construction Technologies, Designed and Built the NSC Port and Harbor Facilities, Piers and the Marginal Wharf , reclaimed land and dredged the harbor area, Built the half kilometre long Finished Goods warehouse and the Finished Goods handling facilities, designed and built the flood control system, erected all steel structures and provided support for the installation of machineries, executed all electrical works for the plants, designed and built all foundation works. including the anchored Diaphragm Walls for the deep Pits. Details and Pictures of the various Works and Projects done for NSC, are Shown in the “Projects” & “Technologies” section.

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ALORAGAT BRIDGE

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ALORAGAT BRIDGE over the Aloragat River, MacArthur Highway, between Pozorubio and Binalonan, Pangasinan. The Bridge was built by [FS] Foundation Specialists, Inc. as replacement of the old bridge which, over the years, had suffered multiple partial collapses due to local scouring caused by frequent severe flash floods due to water release during typhoons, from the upstream Binga Dam, When FS was awarded by the Department of Public Works & Highways the JBIC assisted Contract for the Construction of Aloragat Bridge, traffic across the river was confined to a Bayley bridge in need of continuous repairs due to traffic of heavy cargo trucks. Part of FS contract was the construction of a second Bayley bridge and the upgrading and maintenance of the existing one. The two Bayley bridges [visible in picture] had to be designed to traffic of heavy cargo and trailer trucks loaded with cement bags from nearby plants. For the construction of Post-tensioned girders for the Bridge, FS rented a site near the bridge and set up a 75 cubic meters per hour capacity automatic batching plant, cement silos, and casting beds. The batching plant also supplied concrete for the bored piles, the deck slab and other bridge structures. The large diameter Bored Piles were tested by PDA Tests, (Pile Dynamic Analysis) The bridge was inaugurated by the, at that time,, Speaker of the House, Joe De Venecia and by DPWH Secretary Edmundo Mir.

DACUDAO-LAUREL-BUHANGIN FLY-OVER, Davao City, Mindanao. The Dacudao Laurel Buhangin Davao’s flyover, the first one in the whole Island of Mindanao, a Design and Build Contract, was awarded to Foundation Specialists, Inc. by the Department of Public Works & Highways. The site conditions of the Flyover were quite challenging, because the site of ramps and embankment is underlain by a soft clay formation. In order to provide a firm support for the embankment and the ramps, there were three common solutions, all quite expensive, provide extensive number of piles for a settlement free base to the embankments, put the whole flyover on piles , pile caps, columns coping, girders and slabs, or remove the clay formation and provide a compacted backfill. Foundation Specialists, Inc. provided a fort and cheaper alternative method, and consolidated the underlying clay formation using its patented FS Soil Cement Columns System, a deep-mixed jet grout providing high strength soil-cement columns. The Choice of the FS Soil Cement Columns System, made FS Bid very competitive, and in fact FS was awarded the Design and Build Contract for the Davao flyover. The Flyover was inaugurated by President Ramos in 1994. Davao City has used the aerial picture of Dacudao = Laurel - Buhaing Road Interchange (in figure) as the City Icon for several Local events. Durin the same year 1994, Foundation Specialists, Inc. in Mindanao was the General Contractor for the National Steel Corporation in Iligan City, and in Zamboanga Del Norte for DPWH 4th ADB completing the 94 Km Dapitan-Manukan Highway and the 1Km Polo Bridge

Prince Plaza II Residential High-Rise Building, Dela Rosa Str. Central Business District, Makati City, MM, PH In the middle ‘980s, Foundation Specialists, Inc had promoted the construction of deep basement construction for High Rise Buildings, employing one of FS Top-Down Construction Technologies, the Cast In Place Reinforced Concrete Diaphragm Walls, [DW]. At that time, In PH, DW was only carried by Foundation Specialists, Inc. DW technology enabled the excavation and construction of multi-level underground parking, in soft soil formations with high water table, and in areas already heavily built up, next to other buildings with one or no basement at all. Foundation Specialists, Inc. [FS] had already extensively used the Cast in Place Diaphragm Walls Technology for deep Pit Construction of Industrial Plants, Wharfs, Dry Docks , Cofferdams, Earth Dams’ Core and for Impervious Underground Curtains for Dams, starting from 1977 for the Kalayaan Pump Storage Hydropower Project in Laguna. Developers and Structural Engineers saw the advantages of the DW Technologies of FS, and high rise Buildings started to be designed with multi-level underground basements, which took care of the demand for parking spaces for the residents. Using Cast In Place RC DW executed under static Bentonite suspension, FS has built deep multi-level basements in Manila, Pasay , Paranaque, Makati.. Several Developers then requested FS to build also the High Rise Building on top of the Deep Underground Basements and Prince Plaza II was one of those buildings. Built on top of a six level underground structure. Prince Plaza II (PPII) was the first Luxury Condo Building made mostly of Studio Type and One Bedroom Apartments, built within Commercial and Business Centers. The success of PPII opened the way to a proliferation of such Buildings. PPII is a large building, 26 storeys high, with 6 level underground levels, 5 levels used for car parking. Swimming pools and other amenities are on top of the 26th storeys. Two towers, separated by a seismic joint, form the very elegant building. Entirely built by Foundation Specialists, Inc, as General Contractor FS has built several high rise buildings, and, same as FS has done for Bridges, FS has only accepted buildings’’ construction contracts inclusive of buildings’ foundations, insofar as the safety of a building is not only assured by a strongly built structure, but needs strong foundations, built to resist strong earthquakes without damage.

**KALAYAAN PUMP-STORAGE HYDROPOWER PROJECT, KALAYAAN, LAGUNA, PH, 1977-1981** Foundation Specialists International LTD started activities in the Philippines in June 1977 with the National Powers Project Kalayaan Hydropower, the first of its kind in the whole of Asia, designed to operate with Reversible Pump Turbines, to produce electricity during the pick hours of the day by usinf the water from Caliraya Lake, and Pumping Back water to Caliraya lake from Laguna de Baye during the night, thus storing energy. To explain the economic advantage of the scheme, Electric Pawer price is high during pick demand hours (10AM to 5 PM, and very low during night-time when demand is very low. The Pump-Storage Scheme is a simple and efficient way of storing energy at low cost and then reselling that stored energy during pick hours demand. Another advantage of that way to store energy is that, thermal plants do not need to shut-down at nigh because of no demand and avoid time consuming and costly morning Restarts, on top of it, when Electric Poer is demanded by the grid, Hydroelectric power can be produced in minutes, by just opening the gates and letting water thru the Turbines, While a Thermal Plant after shut-down needs hours to restart. The Kalayaan Power Plant was Financed by Italy, Designed and supplied by a Consortium of Italian Industries. Foundation Specialists International Ltd. among others, provided the Management of the whole Project, under the name of Coordinator’s Office.

PASIG RIVER BRIDGE OF LRT-1 [In Picture the SOUTH PIER UNDER CONSTRUCTION] From antiquity the big Cities around the world , were built around navigable rivers, which granted natural secure haven for ships moorings and the capacity to bring goods and heavy loads directly to the hearth of cities, Rome was built on the Tiber, Pisa and Florence on the Arno River, London on the Thames River, New York on the Hudson River, Washington on Potomac, Shanghai on the Yellow river, Paris over the Sein River : Manila was built around the Pasig River. The LRT-1 Bridge over Pasig River was the last work of LRT-1 to be executed, because of the many requirements to be satisfied by the Design of the Bridges’ Foundations, by the Pile Caps’ Special Requirements , including Mass , Orientation and Protection against Impacts by the Large cargo Barges descending the river at speed during Floods The Pasig River is a navigable water way, with intense traffic of Cargo Barges & Fuel tank barges. The LRT-1 Bridge intersects Pasig River at the entrance of a sharp curve, which required a design of the Piers’ positions and orientation such that would not interfere with the passage of the heavy large barges both self propelled and pulled by tug-boats, passing thru the Pasig River. From the Position of the 2 river piers depended also the Design of the 3 spans bridge’s superstructure Foundation Specialists as Member and Manager of the JV which was awarded the redesign of the Structural Deep Foundations and of the Piers of LRT-1, including the formulation of the Seismic Design Protocol for the whole structure, requested by the Insurance Companies of the Belgian Consortium of Industries which Financed, Supplied and Supervised the Construction of LRT-1.