PRESENTING
www.UniversalEngineering.com
Brad Faucett, P.E.
Regional Engineer
Title:
Regional Engineer for the East Central Florida
Region, Including Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie,
Okeechobee Counties (Rockledge and Ft. Pierce Branches)
Expertise: Geotechnical Engineering and Construction Materials
Testing
Registration:
Professional Engineer
#33123 Florida, 1983
820 Brevard Avenue, Rockledge, FL
UNIVERSAL is a very large, family-owned engineering consulting firm
specializing in:
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Drilling Services
• Construction Materials Testing & Inspection
• Environmental Sciences
• Geophysical Services
• Building/Private Provider Inspection & Plan Review
Q: What does your Daddy do
for a living?
A: My Daddy plays in the
dirt all day!
~
“But my Daddy really DOES play with
dirt all day, honestly...
just ask my Mom”
Q. Mrs. Faucett, what does
your husband do for a living?
A: My husband plays in the
dirt all day!
What exactly is a
Geotechnical Engineer?
•
A Geotechnical Engineer is someone
knowledgeable concerning the interaction
structures and soils.
who is
between
•
An engineer with specialized training and knowledge of
structural behavior of soil and rocks, employed to do soil
investigations, to do design of structure foundations, and
to provide field observation of foundation investigation
and foundation construction.
•
…concerned with the engineering behavior of earth
materials.
Spread Footing Foundation
Raft Foundation
Pile
Foundation
Bell Tower - Pisa, Italy
Launch Pad 39 B
& CME Drill Rig
Standard Penetration
Test Method
Split Spoon Sampler
Soil Constituents
Soil Grain Size Distribution
Florida
Institute of
Technology
Scott Center
for Autism
Treatment
Florida
Institute of
Technology
Autism &
Aquaculture
Center
Theory of Continuous Media
Types of Materials
1. Elastic
2. Plastic
3. Visco-Elastic
Spring Analogy of
Consolidation
Plate Load Test
Soil Deformation versus Load
Diagram
Open for Q & A
Thank you!