GENERAL SITE INVESTIGATIONS
- Site investigations for a variety of engineering structures, including medium and high-rise buildings, reservoirs, water towers, industrial and mining structures, dams, bridges and sport stadiums.
- Planning and supervision of insitu and laboratory testing programs and interpretation of results as an aid to foundation design.
- Desktop engineering geological and hydrogeological investigations, as well as due-diligence investigations for existing structures.
- Investigations for service stations to comply with Environmental Impact Assessment requirements.
DAM INVESTIGATIONS
- Reconnaissance / feasibility / construction investigations and completion reports.
- Insitu tests – permeability tests, grouting trials and specification; modulus determinations.
- Materials investigations.
- Dam safety inspections.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- Engineering Geological mapping for land usage and Urban planning.
- Township and foundation investigations, including stability analysis in dolomitic areas.
TUNNELS
- Planning and route alignment.
- Reconnaissance / feasibility / construction investigations and completion reports.
ROAD AND RAILWAYS
- Planning and route alignment.
- Material quality and groundwater control.
HYDROGEOLOGICAL STUDIES
- Waste disposal facilities and impact assessment studies.
- Reconnaissance / feasibility studies for Rural water supply.
- Borehole location and pump testing.
- Hydraulic evaluation of test pumping data.
- Design of well fields.
- Formation of aquifer management programs and the optimization of borehole construction and design.
- Hydrogeological mapping and aquifer modelling.
SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENT
- Open cut and embankment stability.
- Deep basement support.
GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- As applicable in geotechnical and hydrogeological investigations.
REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
- Interpretation of satellite imagery and aerial photographs in regional soil mapping projects and target identification for groundwater geophysical investigations.
- Supply of historic areal photographs – contact prints or georeferenced – provided as sequence over time if necessary.
