Our Service Areas
From the list below, please select which service area you wish to find out more about:
Site Investigation
Any purchase, ownership or utilisation of land involves risk. This can, however, be minimised by expert interpretation of ground and groundwater conditions.
Where the financial viability of a project is in question, our staged approach to investigation can save time and money as well as providing professional solutions to any geotechnical or mining problems and environmental risk.
Phase 1 - Desk Study
The desk study is essential requisite for planning application and enables preliminary decisions to be made on project viability, and comprises:
Inspection of:
• Mineral and mining records.
• Borehole, well and water abstraction records.
And includes:
• Site reconnaissance.• Historical site processes and landfill proximity.
• Geological and geomorphological mapping.
• Hydrogeological mapping and river quality assessment.
• Initial report, consultations and assessment of project viability
• Development of a conceptual site model
Phase 2 - Ground Investigation
Having established the likely success of a project, ground investigation enables us to determine the extent and level of any identified problems and provides the information necessary to design the optimum economic solutions for development.
Procedures typically included are:
• Soft and hard rock drilling and sampling.
• Assessing slope stability.
• Monitoring of toxic gasses, vapours and groundwater levels.
• Geotechnical laboratory testing.
• Engineering report with geotechnical recommendations and foundation design.
• Site Reclamation & Engineering Design
The geological nature and engineering properties of land significantly affect the behaviour, safety, design, cost and risks of any development. Specialist investigative techniques and experience are, therefore, essential in the acquisition and interpretation of data and its subsequent application to safe, economic design and construction.
Our combined geological and engineering service, based on over 35 years’ experience in professional assessment and interpretation of all ground and groundwater conditions will help to minimise risk.
Initial site investigation is followed by advice and recommendation relating to site acquisition, reclamation and stabilisation, foundation design and waste control for safe and economic construction.
Phase 3 - Remedial Work & Geotechnical Design
In order to assist in eliminating the hazards of existing or potential subsidence, our specialist investigation and advisory services reduce risk, improve safety and optimise costs for:
• Ground stabilisation.• Soil and rock slope stability.
• Earthworks.
• Ground and rock anchors.
• Foundation settlement.
• Underpinning unstable buildings.
Design of safe economic foundations for engineering structures is determined through expert interpretation and applcation of investigative data including the design of:
• Foundation options for development
• Safe bearing capacity to prevent settlement
• Piling through soft ground
• Vibrocompaction to strengthen ground
• Chemical attack prevention