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2. 'Your house is worthless': Massachusetts homeowners are ... - AOL

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   State officials believe around 7,500 homes could be at risk. ... — racking up repair fees of $115,000 to $130,000 per ... with homeowners receiving up to $190,000 toward foundation replacement.

3. Rutland house lifted to replace crumbling foundation laced ...

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   In Connecticut, where the problem first came to light about 20 years ago, a reimbursement fund grants affected homeowners $190,000 toward foundation replacement costs through a bonding initiative.

4. Underpinning - Wikipedia

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   This is one of the most common types of foundations suffering from subsidence-related damage and according to the Building Research Establishment subsidence database, mass concrete underpinning was the most common underpinning and was often applied only to part of a building. If the soils have a low bearing capacity partial underpinning may ...

5. New homes to be demolished and rebuilt due to problems with ...

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   A developer is to demolish and rebuild more than 80 new homes due to problems with their foundations. Darwin Green, less than two miles from Cambridge city centre, is still under construction and ...

6. Foundation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Shallow foundations of a house versus the deep foundations of a skyscraper. Foundation with pipe fixtures coming through the sleeves. In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

7. Home construction - Wikipedia

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   Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building [1] generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there. Beginning with simple pre-historic shelters, home construction techniques have evolved to ...