Geotechnical Engineering

Typical areas of advice include:

• Traditional foundation design
• Piled foundation design
• Basement construction
• Foundation underpinning
• Ground improvement
• Slope stability
• Retaining walls
• Pavements
• Evaluation of existing foundations
• Flood risk assessment
• Subsidence investigation
• Soakaway evaluation and design
• Sink holes and ground collapse

We also offer specific geotechnical investigation services for construction projects:

• Routine laboratory testing including Atterberg limits, moisture contents, particle size distribution, soil soluble sulphate, etc
• Specialist laboratory analysis including shear boxes, multistage triaxial testing, oedometer consolidation, effective stress,etc
• In-situ testing such as California Bearing Ratio, plate bearing tests, Dynamic Cone Penetrometer, etc