Geotechnical
From our base in Aberdeen, Raeburn Drilling and Geotechnical (Northern) Ltd can offer a wide range of Geotechnical Site Investigations and reporting on previously developed 'Brownfield Sites' and undeveloped sites. A well designed site investigation can often lead to project cost savings in the long term by allowing contractors to foresee potential problems.
Our experienced team can cater for individual requirements and offer cost effective solutions, including fieldwork and laboratory testing to suit any size of project, designed to meet your needs.
You will benefit from the proactive best-value service that we provide, all in accordance with the appropriate Specifications and Standards.
Our reports can be presented as either factual or interpretive reports with recommendations relating to both geotechnical and environmental considerations in AGS or PDF formats if required.
Trial pitting can be carried out by a variety of methods from hand dug pits to machine excavated trenches. Trial pitting is generally carried out to a maximum depth of 4.5m with standard excavation plant and, depending on soil conditions, is generally suitable for most low rise developments. All trial pit investigations are supervised by experienced engineers with a thorough understanding of geology and soil mechanics.
The Raeburn Drilling and Geotechnical Ltd Group, with a pool of over 30 engineers and geologists ranging from graduate to chartered status, can deal with all aspects of site investigation and analysis anywhere in the U.K, we can provide a rapid response to satisfy your programme requirements.
Resources
- Over 30 engineers and geologists ranging from recent graduate to chartered status with over 30 years of geotechnical experience.
- All staff hold appropriate Black, Silver or Gold CSCS card.
- Modern fully networked IT systems incorporating a geotechnical database allowing the production of logs, cross-sections, drawings and measurements. Integration with CAD systems, slope stability analyses and contouring (layer profiling).
- Archive of geotechnical and historical maps together with large technical library and extensive geotechnical knowledge base.
- Report production from paper to full electronic form (such as Adobe Acrobat and AGS), including drawings to A0 size
- Topographic surveying and setting out using electronic surveying equipment.
Capabilities
- Desk-top studies to assess the geological conditions beneath a site, including mineral stability.
- Scoping ground investigations to address the geotechnical issues while taking into account the nature of the development proposals.
- Logging trial pits, soil and rock samples to BS5930.
- Field mapping of geological formations.
- Field testing including permeability (variable and constant head, packer, pumping), infiltration, percolation, vane shear strength, CBR, plate load, redox potential and resistivity.
- Field installations including piezometers (Cassagrande, Vibrating wire, pneumatic), gas and water monitoring standpipes, inclinometers and extensometers.
- Field monitoring of the above using the latest data logging systems.
- Scheduling laboratory testing on samples of soils, groundwater and rock.
- Preparation of factual reports on the findings of the investigations.
- Preparation of interpretative reports on investigations including foundations, buried structures, roads, sewers, tunnels, earthworks, ground-water control, mineral stability, stratigraphical correlation
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