Software designers claim their new release makes predicting house footing and slab movement so intuitive that geotechnical engineers will be more prone to do it.
“Some practicing engineers don't actually compute potential heave,” says Geoff Chao, senior engineer and vice president of Engineering Analytics Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., a geotechnical engineering firm that partnered with SoilVision Systems Ltd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to make SVHEAVE, a software designed to be user-friendly and to simplify heave calculations, even in multilayered soil profiles.