Founded in 1986 by Bill McCown, Power Lift Foundation Systems provides superior custom design, fabrication and installation of structural foundation systems.
Over the past two decades, Power Lift has become a pre-eminent company within the industry, serving residential and commercial clients.
Through the years, Power Lift has reached a variety of milestones:
Power Lift will evaluate your foundation issues and develop the most efficient and effective solution. From design to manufacture to installation, we strive to exceed your expectations with exceptional performance.
With our commitment to safety, continuing education and new product development, we’re able to do what is right for each and every customer — guaranteed.
At Power Lift, our mission is to evaluate foundation challenges faced by our customers, and design, manufacture, and install the most efficient and effective solution possible. We have become an industry leader by adhering to our long standing commitments to safety, continuing education, new product development, and always doing what is right. Our pledge is to exceed our customer’s expectations through exceptional performance by every member of our construction team.
Engineered for Success: Our Company History
Bill McCown grew up in the field of commercial masonry work. Throughout the years his family’s business was continually contacted by people wanting their brick fixed. From his experience in commercial masonry work, he recognized that the brick was not the problem. The major issue that was affecting millions of homes and buildings throughout the mid-western and southern United States was …. foundation failure!
So in 1986, Bill began Power Lift Foundation Systems with the goal of providing homeowners experiencing foundation problems a permanent solution that would support and protect their investment.
With more than 40 years in the construction industry and 30+ years specializing in the foundation support industry, Bill McCown continues a long-standing family tradition.
For generations, the McCown family has worked in the masonry field of construction. In 1986, Bill proudly took “the family business” in a new and successful direction by founding Power Lift Foundation Systems, and growing it into the successful company it is today.
In addition to his design talents, Bill has cultivated his extensive knowledge of foundations, foundation failures, and foundation repair techniques and systems through a combination of continuing education programs, equipment and technology seminars and in-field experience.
For more than two and a half decades, Bill has been recognized as an industry expert and has been called on to provide expert testimony in foundation litigation cases on numerous occasions.
Throughout the course of his career, he has been published twice concerning foundation investigation, failure and repair. Under his leadership, Power Lift has been featured in one of the nation’s most recognized engineering periodicals, Engineering News Record Magazine.
Throughout the company’s history, Bill has led the charge for excellence in the engineering aspect of Power Lift’s projects, equipment, and products. Accordingly, he has formed strong alliances with some of the most prominent engineering firms in the southern and central United States.
Due to his solid working relationships with these firms, Power Lift can proudly say that there has never been a failure or call-back on any of our commercial projects.
Coming from a close construction family, Bill has always put a great emphasis on relationships — both personal and professional. His wife and two children come first, and this attitude extends to Power Lift Employees. In fact, this philosophy is what makes Power Lift less like a business and more like a family.
Today, Power Lift Foundation Systems is one of the leading companies in the field thanks to Bill’s talents, knowledge and leadership.
Power Lift Foundation Systems is always focused on the safety of our foundation solutions, our clients and our employees. It is our intent to comply with all local, state and federal safety standards, codes and regulations.
We are also committed to discovering, correcting and preventing safety and environmental health hazards that could affect our employees and the general public.
Clients: We are committed to providing foundation systems that are safe and effective for our clients and the residents/tenants of their buildings.
Employees: We are committed to providing the most proactive, and safest working conditions possible.
Power Lift has achieved an experience modifier rating of 0.71, which is significantly better than the industry average of 1.0. (A rating below 1.0 means the company has superior safety procedures in place, and the track record to back it up.) For reference, many major companies demand that their partners maintain an EMR of less than 1.0.
AND… Our Safety Manual contains more than 200 pages. That’s how dedicated we are to safety!
Few companies in the foundation repair industry hold patents for products and equipment that they have developed themselves.
At Power Lift, we don’t have one patent — we have seven! See more about our proprietary technologies with the links below:
The BBB is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and foster the highest ethical standards between companies and their customers in the areas of:
The Pile Driving Contractors Association (PDCA) is an organization of pile driving contractors that advocates the increased use of driven piles for deep foundations and earth retention systems. To do this, they:
The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society.
ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment. Through the expertise of its active membership, ASCE is a leading provider of technical and professional conferences and continuing education, the world’s largest publisher of civil engineering content, and an authoritative source for codes and standards that protect the public.
The Society advances civil engineering technical specialties through nine dynamic Institutes and leads with its many professional- and public-focused programs.
Foundation Performance Association (FPA) is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge, performance, and standards of engineering, construction, and repairs related to foundations, soil and structures.
The Association hosts regular events with guest speakers and technical seminars, and sponsors the publication of technical papers and research material.
Members and guests involved in the design, construction, inspection, repair and forensic investigation of the foundations of residential and other low-rise buildings and structures are encouraged to attend the meetings and learn more about the Association.
The International Association of Foundation Drilling (ADSC-IAFD) is a professional, international, not for-profit trade association representing the anchored earth retention, drilled shaft, micropile, and other heavy civil construction/design industries. It was founded in the State of Texas in 1972. Their members include specialty subcontractors, manufacturers and suppliers, academicians and design engineers in the private and public sectors. The ADSC-IAFD is served by a national staff and eight regional chapters. The Vision of the ADSC-IAFD is to continue to be the recognized world leader in the research, development, education and design of anchored earth retention, drilled shaft, micropiling, and complementary related construction.
Founded in 1904 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, and a regional office in Dubai, UAE, the American Concrete Institute is a leading authority and resource worldwide for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensus-based standards, technical resources, educational & training programs, certification programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design, construction, and materials, who share a commitment to pursuing the best use of concrete. ACI has more than 100 chapters, 215 student chapters, and 30,000 members spanning over 120 countries.
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is an international membership association of contractor, engineers and suppliers in the field of design and construction of deep foundations and excavations. The organization is classified as a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation under the United States Internal Revenue Code. DFI was formed in 1976.
The institute functions via the volunteer activity of its members, including an 18-member board of trustees, and through the management of its staff located in Hawthorne, New Jersey.
