We build the entire structure — slab, frame, finishes — inside our regional facilities, 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 still leave.
It drives on. Level grade or helical piers — nothing poured, nothing waited on.
The best factory builders produce an excellent home indoors — and then everyone waits on concrete. Excavation, forms, stem wall, cure time, inspections, weather, and a foundation contractor who has to hit tolerances the finished module will land on. Weeks of schedule that no factory ever touched, and the place where a fixed price stops being fixed.
Permanent 2 Go is assembled in the opposite order. The post-tensioned slab is cast first, in our facility. 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 sites need level compacted grade and nothing more. Difficult ground takes 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 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 floor 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.
One shell, built to repeat. A single module stands on its own; two identical modules marry side by side, staggered, for a two-bedroom. Same part, same slab, same rig.
Owner scope is rough grading, utility connections, and soil clearance. Everything above grade is ours.
One module, 360 sq ft. Two marry for 720
Engineered service life, relocatable throughout
All most sites need. Difficult ground takes helical piers
No footings, no trenching, no soil hauled off your lot
A conventional foundation trenches footings, digs, and hauls the spoil away. On a lot that has burned, that spoil is regulated material — tested, profiled, manifested and disposed of, at a price that scales with how much you dig.
Set on grade and there is nothing to excavate, nothing to haul, nothing to characterize. Helical piers displace soil rather than removing it, so even difficult ground generates almost no spoil.
Less disturbance is also less exposure. A method that never opens the ground doesn't mobilize what's in it.
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 what the ground is like. We'll tell you what we can deliver and when.
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