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List of Geotechnical Services

 

 

 

Category of Services

  • Due diligence (pre-purchase or preliminary) subsurface studies
  • Design level geotechnical studies
  • Hydrogeologic studies
  • Forensic (settlement, seepage or pavement distress) evaluations


Outline of Services

Site exploration/characterization
… fleet of modern, all terrain drilling rigs

  • Standard Penetration Test borings
  • Auger borings
  • Muck probes
  • Field permeability tests
  • Piezometer installations

Laboratory Soils Testing
… in-house facilities

  • engineering properties - gradation/organic content/plasticity
  • strength
  • compressibility
  • permeability (triaxial)

Engineering/technical recommendations
… detailed, but practical

  • unsuitable soil delineation (quantification)
  • wet season water table determination
  • foundation design
    - spread footings
    - piling
    - bearing capacity
    - settlement
    - construction details
  • floor slab-on-grade design
  • pavement design
    - asphalt (flexible) sections
    - concrete (rigid) sections
    - geosynthetic reinforcement
    - subdrainage
  • borrow (soils) management
    - fill requirements and sources
    - rock excavatability
    - radon gas potential
  • hydrogeologic modeling
    - construction dewatering impacts
    - underdrain analysis
    - background seepage quantification
    - wetland drawdown evaluation
    - exfilitration trench capacity


Deliverables

  • written (Word document) technical reports, signed and sealed by a Florida registered professional engineer, and including:
    - exploratory information, plan and profile (x-sections) in AutoCAD
    - tabulated data in Excel spreadsheet format
    - computer model input/output files in paper and electronic copies

 



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