Drummondville grew fast around its textile mills along the Saint-François River, and that industrial heritage left a mixed soil profile across the boroughs. Much of the downtown and industrial park sits on fluvial deposits — sands and silts with variable density — while residential zones to the north and east often encounter glacial till over clay. Before pouring a single footing, we run a bearing capacity analysis to check whether those layers can actually support the loads you plan to put on them. For shallow foundations we usually pair this with a plate load test to verify settlement directly on site, and when the soil profile is layered we recommend a CPT cone test to capture continuous strength data without gaps.
We calibrated our bearing capacity model against 12 years of site data in Drummondville — every project refines the correlation.