Projects

Morris-Shea installed deep foundations and internally braced sheet piling for the construction of a large cable manufacturing facility near Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. The  Birmingham, Alabama-based geotechnical contractor utilized six high powered drill rigs and a fleet of additional equipment to construct two sheet pile cofferdams, and drill more than 3,500 DeWaal and CFA pile types as deep foundations.

Morris-Shea, an industry-leading deep foundation contractor, is completing installation of DeWaal Pile Systems and Partial Displacement Piles as deep foundations for multiple construction sites at the Georgia Port Authority renovation project, Savannah, Georgia. The new buildings will include terminal, administration, maintenance and parking structures. The expanded berth and container yard capacity will accommodate two large container ships.

Morris-Shea, an industry-leading deep foundation contractor, completed installation of two cofferdams at the Berg Pipe facility expansion in Panama City, Florida. The cofferdams will accommodate new pipe-forming technology that upgrades the existing plant’s large diameter steel pipe manufacturing and coating capabilities. Morris-Shea fielded a highly experienced team who completed the harborside project on schedule.

Morris-Shea drilled 350 geothermal boreholes for the installation of 140,000 linear feet of ground loop heat exchanger piping at a technical facility in Central Indiana. Morris-Shea mobilized two advanced drill rigs, a CPT test unit and other support equipment to the plant expansion job site. The team drilled 4.5 inch diameter boreholes to a depth of 400 feet from drilling grade. Geothermal construction began in mid-July and was completed on schedule on November 24, 2025

Morris-Shea completed installation of 185 continuous flight auger (CFA) piles at the site of a new 27 story residential tower in Charlotte, North Carolina. The development will feature 238 apartment units, a multi-story parking facility and commercial space at the ground level. The project at 1200 Metropolitan Avenue also required the installation of specialty micropile anchors, rather than CFA piles, where subsurface rock was found at extremely shallow depths.

Morris-Shea installed Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) piles for use as deep foundation for pipe racks at the new Dos Bocas Refinery in Paraíso, Mexico. The Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) facility will be the largest oil products refinery in the country. Morris-Shea was awarded the Site 2 pile contract after the successful installation of deep foundations at the renery’s Site 1 location. The CFA piles satisfy all foundation load requirements for pipe running up to a half mile in distance between storage tanks and/or processing plants. Morris-Shea’s Mexico team performed quality installations in jobsites congested with the ongoing activities, equipment and spoils of current and previous contractors.

Morris-Shea installed Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) piles for the new Hewson Hall deep foundation at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business in Tuscaloosa. The building’s foundation was originally designed as 36”, 42”  and 48” drilled shafts supporting cast-in-place concrete columns and grade beams. The University substituted an alternate bid based on design loads prepared by The Structural Design Group, the Structural Engineer of Record (EOR).  Morris-Shea provided a Value Engineered Alternate design consisting of 24” and 36” CFA piles capable of satisfying all load requirements. CFA piles were ideal for the project’s soil conditions and vibration and noise concerns..

Birmingham, Alabama deep foundation contractor, Morris-Shea, installed nearly 1500 rigid inclusions at a new 650-unit multi-family development in Everett, Massachusetts. Foundations for this six-story building project required the construction of rigid inclusions for ground improvement at the site of an old Boston Street debris recycling plant. The Morris-Shea team utilized two Fundex 3500 drill rigs, including one with a unique clamping system at the top of the mast, for installation of continuous drilled DeWaal rigid inclusions ranging in depths up to 133 feet.

Morris-Shea, an industry-leading deep foundation contractor based in Birmingham, Alabama, installed continuous flight auger (CFA) piles at the job site of VERVE, a new apartment living facility near the university campus in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Morris-Shea construction team worked in the tight confines of an urban job site that restricted positioning of heavy equipment and minimized installation access.

Morris-Shea Bridge Company, a Birmingham-based deep foundation contractor, installed 2,368 slab (shallow) rigid inclusions (RI’s) at the Everett, MA job site. The firm also set 555 RI’s for building columns to depths ranging up to 132’.

Morris-Shea soil mixing trencher at Novalis aluminum plant job site in Bay Minette, Alabama.

Morris-Shea soil mixing trencher at Novalis aluminum plant job site in Bay Minette, Alabama.