Petrifond specializes exclusively in deep foundation construction, working throughout Canada, in the United States and the Caribbean – successfully completing some 2,500 contracts to date.

The company is managed by a team of professional engineers, specialist supervisors and keymen – all with decades of hands-on experience and fully dedicated to this vocation. Petrifond maintains a modern fleet of 35 major rigs together with tools and accessories such as overburden and rock drills, proprietary piling leads, hammers, oscillators, vibros, augers, clams, slurry wall and jet-grouting equipment. Special purpose rigs and tools are built in-house.

Innovation and an appetite for challenging projects are Petrifond’s hallmark. A few that we’ve been involved with across North America include:

100 ft. rock socketed caissons for an industrial plant in Kitimat, British Colombia.

Caissons for toll highway bridges in B.C. 14 rigs used to meet schedule.

Slurry walls in obstructed fill and tidal water for subway in San Francisco.

6,000 rock socketed caissons for treatment plant in Calgary.

1,000 expanded base piles (PIFs) to 50 ft. for a power plant, Edmonton, Alberta

1,400,000 sq. ft. cut-off wall for the Twin Buttes Dam in San Angelo, Texas.

700,000 sq. ft. of concrete slurry walls in boulders & rock debris, Bonneville, Wash.

300 ft. deep rock socket caissons for a highway bridge in Quebec.

14 ft. diameter marine caissons for a transmission line river crossing in Montreal.

3,000 expanded base piles (PIFs) for an industrial plant in Quebec.

600,000 sq. ft. of concrete slurry walls in the remote James Bay region.

1,000,000 sq. ft. of concrete cut-off slurry walls for a dam in Alabama, Georgia.

Piling for bridges in Haiti.

Wharf piling in Dominica.

Drilled piling in permafrost, Baffin Island, NWT.

Petrifond covers the full range of specialized foundation services, with an emphasis on:

Slurry (diaphragm) walls Expanded Base piles (PIFs) Multi-rig projects of driven and drilled piling outside our Eastern Canada home area. We welcome your inquiries for:  Bids on specific foundation projects Budget proposals Consultation on foundations solutions

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