Expert advice
Richter has extensive experience in the deep foundation
business. It includes setting up subsidiaries for Bauer
Construction in the Netherlands and Canada, and leading
the foundation division of the British construction firm Laing
O’Rourke. He also founded Aecon Foundations, a division of
the prominent Canadian construction company Aecon.
Sandberg’s expertise is on the equipment side of the construction
industry. His work in the crane rental business took
him all around the world and prior to FDS he ran the deep
foundation division for the Liebherr Group, a major supplier
of crawler cranes and other construction equipment.
Due to the extensive experience of its management team,
FDS is able to provide expert advice to customers looking for
assistance with their deep foundation construction projects.
“We can help customers find the right equipment for
their jobs,” Sandberg said. “We had a customer in Quebec,
for instance, who came to us and said, ‘We’ve got this project
and we need to drill a certain diameter of casings.’ We helped
them to determine which machines to use, what tooling to
use, what kind of casings to use and then helped them determine
a drilling method to use.
“We went to the market and found a machine for them, in
addition to the tools and casings, then basically put everything
together for them.”
There are lots of other examples of FDS providing this kind
of service, Richter said, “We like to see ourselves as a onestop
shop.”
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