Foundation Support of the Lilly Medicine Foundry in Lebanon, IN-Video

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The Eli Lilly project in Lebanon, Indiana, is a vast biomedical campus spanning roughly 600 acres, with multiple production buildings, utilities, pipe racks, and support facilities. Although the site’s glacial till was generally stiff and foundation capacity was adequate, strict settlement limits proved difficult to verify using conventional SPT and CPT data. Seismic CPT shear-wave measurements revealed much higher soil stiffness, supported by pile load-test results, and helped demonstrate that settlement criteria could be met. Foundations included rigid inclusions beneath the central utility building and auger-cast piles beneath peptide facilities.<br /><br />Construction required intensive coordination: design and building areas became available in stages, with as many as seven rigs working onsite. Variable pile-cap thicknesses—up to eight feet—required careful decisions about drilling elevations and trimming piles. Rigid inclusions near deep caps had to be installed after excavation, concrete placement, and backfilling. The team emphasized schedule buffers, flexible sequencing, and safety amid overlapping crews and activities.

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Eli Lilly project

Lebanon Indiana

foundation settlement

seismic CPT

rigid inclusions