Forensic Engineering in Charlotte, NC

Charlotte's distress cases follow its geology and its pace: settlement into fills placed wet on micaceous residuum during a market that rarely slows for weather, differential movement where foundations straddle saprolite and PWR, excavation and shoring disputes over rock that was not where the bid put it, and the concrete questions of a high-volume vertical market. The investigation runs on evidence: elevation surveys mapping movement, borings establishing bearing and fill conditions beneath the distress, laboratory testing of recovered fill against its specification, cores per ASTM C42, and petrographic examination per ASTM C856 where the concrete is in question. Chain of custody is maintained, with licensed engineers engaged in North Carolina for evaluation and testimony.

Schedule-driven wet-weather fill placement is a recurring Charlotte root cause; the fill's moisture-density behavior is recoverable by sampling years later, which makes these cases more provable than their construction records suggest.

• Concrete distress investigation: cracking, scaling, spalling, low strength results
• Core sampling and testing of hardened concrete per ASTM C42
• Petrographic examination of hardened concrete per ASTM C856
• Foundation and pavement performance investigations
• Documented chain of custody and photo documentation built for litigation

ASTM C42ASTM C856ASTM C39