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Ages Engineering

Ages Engineering is a full-service geotechnical engineering company working throughout the state of Washington.

What we do

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Residential

The majority of our work entails residential projects within the Puget Sound Region. The complexity of the surface and the underlying soils create a challenging environment to build upon. These projects often entail lower budgets and challenging designs. Our residential process is specified to limit our work to exactly what is needed and to customize our work to the specific project.

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Commercial

A large portion of our work entails commercial projects. Similar to residential projects in the Puget Sound region, small business projects are often located in challenging environments. These projects most often have a very specific goal in mind and come with a larger and well-organized design and construction team. Accordingly, our process for commercial projects is also to limit our work to exactly what is necessary.

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Coastlines

Due to the unique coastline areas in western Washington, we perform much of our work on or very near various coastlines. Development along saltwater coastlines, freshwater lakes, streams, or other waterways requires unique and very specific engineering solutions. These projects range from residential development on shorelines or above coastal bluffs, to industrial and commercial projects in the Port of Seattle or Port of Tacoma.

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retaining wall design

Ages Engineering can prepare a site-specific retaining wall design and construction recommendations for most retaining wall types. New retaining walls typically include segmental block, gravity block, and soldier pile.

Retaining wall evaluation

Quite often, our clients build a relatively short or small retaining wall, not knowing it is in or near an Environmentally Critical Area (ECA). In many jurisdictions, a retaining wall of any height constructed in or near an ECA requires a building permit. Our work often entails evaluating existing or recently constructed walls, resulting in an evaluation and design report which either confirms the existing wall configuration, or provides additional design and construction recommendation to bring the wall into jurisdictional compliance.

shallow and deep foundations

Ages Engineering has worked on many projects requiring deep foundations. Deep foundations transfer building loads to stronger earth material below the surface. These foundation types typically include Pin Piles, Drilled Piers, and Augercast Piles.

slope stability

Slope stability refers to the condition of inclined soil or rock slopes to withstand or undergo movement. Ages Engineering can perform a static or dynamic, analytical or empirical method to evaluate the stability of earth and rock-filled dams, embankments, excavated slopes, and natural slopes in soil or rock. The results are presented in the form of a Factor-of-Safety against sliding.

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deep excavation

Lot size and property line constraints will often result in the planned development performing a deep excavation. Some excavations can be safely open cut while others require shoring to protect the adjacent properties from damage during development

Shoring

The most common type of shoring in Washington State is a soldier pile wall. This shoring method supports the excavation using a system of drilled shafts in which steel beams inserted with the shaft annulus backfilled with concrete or grout. As the excavation proceeds, timber lagging is inserted with ends behind the beam flanges. This wall can be designed as a permanent or temporary wall. Typically, when this wall type exceeds a height of 15 to 20 feet, tiebacks are necessary.

gravity block shoring

One of the most common types of shoring is the Ultra-Block Lock-Block Retaining Wall System. This system uses heavy blocks stacked in a brick-like manner to support a deep cut. This wall system can be used in native or fill soils. The Ultra-Block Retaining Wall is a gravity wall and therefore no reinforcement is necessary behind the blocks.

other specialties

Ages Engineering also specializes in pavement analysis and design, ground improvement, and field density testing. We can perform feasibility studies, geologic hazard evaluations, and prepare complete Geotechnical Reports.

Ages Geotechnical Engineering