We build the entire structure — slab, frame, finishes — inside our Texas facility, then deliver it intact on air‑ride suspension and set it on grade. No foundation to pour. Nothing to wait on. Engineered for fifty years, and it can always move again.
Carried in low on its own rig, driven into position, and lowered onto level grade. No crane, no poured foundation.
The best modular builders make houses that beat site-built on almost every measure — tighter tolerances, better materials, none of it framed in the rain. Then the finished module waits on concrete.
Because a conventional modular home still needs a foundation built the old way: excavation, forms, a stem wall or pier and beam, cure time, inspections, weather, and a foundation contractor who has to hit tolerances the module will land on. It's the one part of the process no factory ever touched, and it carries most of the schedule risk and a large share of the cost.
Permanent 2 Go is assembled in the opposite order. The slab is cast and post-tensioned in our facility, and the frame, envelope, mechanicals, and finishes are locked to it before the building ever moves. What leaves the plant isn't a box waiting for a foundation. It's a finished building that has never been separated from its own.
Most GroundFORCE sites need only a level, compacted graded site and nothing more. Difficult ground may require helical piers, which screw into place without excavation, forms, or cure time. Either way, nothing is poured and nothing is waited on.
The slab is poured flat in a climate-controlled bay and post-tensioned with high-strength steel cable. Tensioned concrete resists the flex that would crack a conventional slab, which is what lets the foundation double as a transport chassis.
Framing, envelope, mechanicals, and finish work go on indoors — no weather delays, no material sitting in the rain, inspections on a predictable schedule. Everything ties structurally into the concrete so the building travels as one body.
The rig cradles the slab and carries the building low to the road on pneumatic air-ride suspension, which absorbs the shock a steel-spring trailer would pass straight into the walls. Drywall seams, ceiling grid, and fixtures arrive the way they left the floor.
The building is driven onto the site and lowered into place — usually onto level compacted grade, and on difficult ground onto helical piers installed in a day. No crane, no crane pad, no foundation contractor, no cure time. The carrier pulls out from under it, utilities connect, and it's open.
Or less, from order to occupancy
Engineered service life, to commercial and educational code
Clear interior height, delivered
All most sites need. Difficult ground takes helical piers — no excavation, no cure
Three generations of the Neatherlin family worked heavy structure moving out of Houston — the business of taking something enormous, fragile, and never designed to travel, and putting it somewhere else without harming it.
The family's favorite proof is a fully stocked convenience store that made the trip without spilling a drop of milk.
Kenneth Neatherlin founded GroundFORCE on the inversion of that job. If the hard part is moving a building that was never meant to move, then build one that was — and give it a real foundation while you're at it.
Tell us the footprint, the timeline, and whether the ground is yours for good. We'll tell you what we can deliver and when.
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