Services
Site Characterization & Geotechnical Investigations
Comprehensive field investigations tailored for residential, commercial, municipal, and transportation infrastructure projects. We deliver actionable subsurface insights to guide your project from concept through permitting:
Subsurface Exploration: Test hole drilling, continuous soil sampling, logging, and field identification.
Laboratory Testing: Advanced testing to establish index and engineering properties of soil and rock.
Foundation Engineering: Foundation selection (shallow vs. deep), recommended bearing capacities, and frost protection depths.
Site Preparation Guidance: Detailed specifications for sub-excavation, fill selection, subgrade preparation, and utility backfill.
Site Development: Top-of-bank setback determinations, site grading, surface drainage, and maintenance protocols.
Geotechnical Design & Earthworks Engineering
Custom engineering designs tailored to site-specific ground conditions and structural demands:
Deep & Shallow Foundations: Design of strip/spread footings, cast-in-place concrete piles, and helical/screw piles.
Earth Retaining & Shoring: Segmental, MSE, and gravity retaining structures, as well as temporary/permanent shoring systems.
Slopes & Earthworks: Slope stabilization measures, embankments, dikes, containment lagoons, and roadway structures.
Groundwater & Foundation Support: Dewatering systems, subsurface drainage design, and structural underpinning solutions.
Advanced Geotechnical Modeling & Analysis
Utilizing industry-standard numerical software to evaluate complex soil-structure interactions and ground response:
Slope Stability Analysis: Limit-equilibrium and Finite Element Method slope modeling.
Deformation & Settlement: Stress-deformation and consolidation analyses.
Seepage & Hydrogeology: Numerical groundwater flow modeling.
Deep Foundation Response: Lateral pile analysis and load-deflection modeling.
Forensic Assessments & Specialist Consulting
Expert diagnostic evaluations for existing assets facing ground-related performance issues:
Structural cracking and foundation movement investigations.
Settlement, frost heave, and high groundwater troubleshooting.
Slope instability evaluations and failure remediation.
Expert forensic engineering.
Instrumentation, Monitoring & Quality Assurance
Protecting assets and verifying design assumptions throughout construction and long-term operations:
In-Situ Instrumentation: Installation and tracking using vertical inclinometers, piezometers (standpipe/pneumatic), settlement cells, and survey networks.
Structural Health Monitoring: Concrete wall and slab crack displacement tracking.
Construction Inspection & QA/QC: Subgrade inspections, proof rolling, pile installation oversight, excavation verification, and continuous laboratory testing.
