The Concrete Foundations Association of North America holds an annual competition for the most difficult concrete structures built throughout the country. We have won an award for the each of the past four years for challenging projects that we’ve completed.
For this year’s competition, we entered two interesting basement foundations in the competition. We’d like to thank Greg Spencer and Brad Quin for their confidence in us to construct these unique projects.
Blue Ridge Mountain Cabin
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| Greg Spencer of Building Knowledge is building this mountain cabin in Blue Ridge. We entered this basement project for the “Single Family Less Than 2,000sq. ft.” category. |
The first project is a basement foundation for a mountain cabin in Blue Ridge built by Greg Spencer of Building Knowledge. The basement was literally built onto the side of a steep, rocky mountain. The shape of the basement had to be modified to work around a large rock outcropping. The lot sloped 13’-0” from back to front in the 24’-0” depth of the house. The small footprint required multiple footing jumps and seven different wall heights.
“Because this job site was so difficult, there were many variables in trying to make the house fit on the site. The folks at Herbert Construction worked with me and helped me find the best solution to getting the house and foundation situated correctly.”– Greg Spencer, Building Knowledge
Private Residence in Acworth
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| Brad Quin of BeQuin Homes is building this home located in Acworth. We entered this basement project for the “Single Family Greater Than 5,000 sq. ft.” category. |
The second project we submitted is a large, private residence in Acworth built by Brad Quin of Bequin Homes. Using our Robotic Total Station to lay out the job helped us ensure that the complex basement was square and correct. This impressive project had a concrete safe room, used a total of 414 yards of concrete, and had a footprint of 125’x153’. There were 14 different wall heights, including 18’-0” tall walls.
“This is a big house, I really needed to get the foundation put in correctly. I knew HCC specializes in technical jobs of this scale. They did a great job and really came through for me.”– Brad Quin, BeQuin Homes
