Bad Soil Doesn't Kill the Deal Anymore: Why Builders Are Speccing Helical Piers on New Construction
Ask any builder or developer in our region what their biggest headache is right now, and land comes up fast. Not lumber prices, not labor — land. The parcels with clean soil reports and easy grades got snapped up years ago. What's left on the market tends to come with an asterisk: fill sites, former farmland, sloped ground, high water tables, expansive clay. Lots that make your structural engineer wince before the survey crew has even packed up. Here's what a growing number of builders are...