Forensic Engineering in Nashville, TN

When Nashville ground misbehaves, karst is the first suspect and sometimes the guilty one: new depressions swallowing pavement, structures distressed over voids that post-dated the borings, drainage changes that accelerated dissolution under a corner of the building. But limestone country also produces ordinary failures, fills over rock placed badly, slabs and pavements with construction defects, and the investigation's job is telling them apart with evidence. Elevation surveys map the movement; borings and, where warranted, geophysical methods establish what is actually below; cores per ASTM C42 document the concrete; petrographic examination per ASTM C856 answers materials questions. Chain of custody holds, with licensed engineers engaged in Tennessee for evaluation and testimony.

Post-construction drainage changes, concentrated roof discharge, leaking utilities, altered runoff, are the classic trigger for karst activity under existing structures here, and moisture-pathway mapping is often what assigns responsibility.

• 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