Earth Support
Soldier Pile & Tieback Shoring, Seaport
Kept the foundation on the critical path · No measurable settlement to the adjacent structure
Read the case studyBoston, Massachusetts
Advanced Earth Support, Pile Driving, and Drilled Shafts.
We hold the ground so you can build.
Boston earth support & pile driving for general contractors — a detailed quote in 3 days.
Built for GC prequalification
The record
Evidence first. Every figure carries its source.
- Detailed quote, after inspection
- 3-day — Detailed quote, after inspection
- The promise we run on — a detailed quote within 3 days of your site inspection.
- Years our founder has been drilling
- 18 yrs — Years our founder has been drilling
- From mines around the world to Boston bedrock — 18 years of hands-on drilling, now behind every job we run.
- Boston-based and growing fast
- Local
- Established in Boston and trusted across Greater Boston on deep-foundation and earth-support work.
New · Interactive
See your shoring before you dig.
Describe your excavation in plain English and get an interactive 3D scheme, quantities, a build sequence, and a budgetary estimate in seconds.
Every wall type
Soldier pile · Sheet · Secant · Soil nail
Build sequence
Tiebacks, rakers, and underpinning, staged
Live budget
Quantities and a budgetary estimate in seconds
Generated scheme
- Piles
- 24
- Tiebacks
- 18
- Budget
- ~$1.4M
Capability index
Five techniques. One outcome: the dig stays on schedule.
3 days
To a detailed quote
Measured from your site inspection. The legacy promise, kept.
Safety-led delivery
EMR, insurance, and safety program issued to GCs on request.
From our founder
“I started out drilling mines around the world where the ground doesn't forgive shortcuts. Since then I've drilled across Greater Boston and become a specialist in its bedrock. That discipline is why Boston brings us its hardest jobs — airport work, one of the largest excavation-and-drilling jobs the city has run, the transit-line extension. We do the buried work right, keep the GC on schedule, and stand behind every foot of it.”
The fleet
Owned iron, on call.
The deep-foundation fleet we run across Greater Boston — sized for the work, from open-cut excavation to limited-access drilling.
- 2×
Tracked hydraulic excavator
Caterpillar 336
Mass excavation and precision dig to subgrade behind the shoring.
See the work - 1×
Vibratory driver / extractor
APE 200-6
Driving and extracting sheet piles and soldier beams.
See the work - 1×
Crawler service crane
Liebherr LR 1130
Setting piles and reinforcement cages; carrying crane-hung tools.
See the work - 2×
Limited-access anchor & micropile drill
Klemm KR 806-3GS
Tiebacks, soil nails and micropiles on tight, low-headroom sites.
See the work
Equipment shown as illustrative renderings.
How we work
Inspection to start, without the guesswork.
01
Inspection
We visit the site, review the geotech and the constraints, and scope the support-of-excavation or foundation work with you.
02
Quote within 3 days
You get a detailed, line-item quote — technique, sequence, and assumptions spelled out — within 3 days of the inspection.
03
Start
On award, we mobilize to the agreed window and drive, drill, or shore — sequenced to keep your dig on the critical path.
Selected work
Boston deep-foundation tear sheets.
Back Bay
Tieback Anchors for Retention, Back Bay
Brace-free, open excavation for the GC
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Foundation Underpinning, Cambridge
Existing structure stabilized for new loads
Read case studySomerville
Rock-Socketed Drilled Shafts, Somerville
High-capacity foundation to bedrock
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Where we work
Greater Boston ground, neighborhood by neighborhood.
We engineer to the Boston Basin: urban fill, Boston Blue Clay, glacial till, and argillite. Each area has its own subsurface story.
See projects near youSeaport
Reclaimed waterfront: deep urban fill over thick Boston Blue Clay, with a high water table — conditions that demand careful support of excavation and dewatering control.
Back Bay
Historic filled land over Boston Blue Clay; many buildings sit on legacy timber piles, so limiting ground movement near neighbors is paramount.
Cambridge
Glaciomarine soils with fill and Boston Blue Clay over glacial till and argillite — a profile well suited to driven piles and rock-socketed shafts.
Somerville
Fill and marine clay over dense glacial till and bedrock; competent deeper strata make high-capacity driven piles and drilled shafts effective.
Ready to scope your foundation?
Tell us about the project and we'll put together a detailed quote within 3 days. We generally work with general contractors.