Geotechnical Design
Our geotechnical design team consists of highly experienced Geotechnical Engineers who play a vital role in the early planning and design stages of a project. Construction inspections, performance monitoring and a hands-on approach are equally important for the successful completion and engineering sign-off of the projects we work on. Our key focus is on the design of earth retaining structures, ground improvement techniques and slope engineering fields of practice, with the in-house capability and expertise to design anything from small through to large scale commercial and infrastructure projects.
Our qualified engineers and geologists provide the following services:
Timber pole / barrier pile retaining wall design
Mechanically stabilised earth (MSE) wall design
Soil nailing design
Rock slopes support and rock fall barriers design
Ground improvement methods design
Reinforced embankments design
Peer review of design
Wetland / pond design
Groundwater control methods design
We own a complete suite of analytical tools that allow detailed design and preparation of construction drawings in a timely manner. We use the latest specialist software packages available in the market to perform routine, conventional geotechnical analysis but also numerical / finite element analysis should this be required for projects of increased complexity. Indicative software packages that we use include PLAXIS 2D (Static & Dynamic), SLIDE, WALLAP, MSEW, Phase2, Settle3D, CPeT-IT, CLiq, Rocfall and MODFLOW.
Our design team are fully versed in using the software having attended advanced courses in computational geotechnics and Soil Dynamics and Soil Engineering.
Disclaimer: We provided the geotechnical input for the above retaining wall but were not involved in the geotechnical design.
