ABSTRACT
With the evolution of the civil engineering, and the high level of demand from the construction of structures with increasingly slender and heavier buildings, there was also the development of the foundation engineering in Brazil. In addition to the structural elements of the project, another recent factor of extreme importance for the development of the techniques for foundation execution and design was the limited (or lack of) urban space and the choice of location for the implementation of the new constructions in a fast developing country. In many cities another aspect took place, i.e., previously (historically, for many reasons) disregarded regions of the “Brazilian continent” began to be populated and this fact imposed technical difficulties that necessarily needed to be overcome.
