Our geotechnical clients include civil engineering consultants, geotechnical engineering consultants, Construction Materials Testing (CMT) businesses and specialist contractors.
Geotechnical clients use our smarter in situ testing methods and more sustainable ground improvement solutions and to help their clients reduce construction timeframes, lower clients construction and operational costs, improve quality, reduce risk and reduce their environmental footprint.
Sectors our clients work with include:
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Current earthworks specifications often rely on the assumption that there is a direct correlation between density and modulus (i.e. the greater the density achieved, the higher the modulus of the...
This pro-active approach enables prioritisation - think of it like precision rehabilitation. This maybe for the track formation (at grade, in cuttings or on embankments) itself and also for the...
Our CPT partner, A.P. van den Berg, has switching to the new ISO-standard ISO 22476-1:2022 for CPT cone manufacture and calibration.
It’s a common occurrence to see pavements settle and create a traffic hazard where trench works have been completed across a road, particularly when these trenches are installed after the...
It’s always rewarding when we can bring both our “test” and “improve” capabilities to the same project. This was the case with a recent case study for the application of...
A bridge approach transition zone is the area where a road or railway track transitions from the rigid structure of a bridge to the flexible embankment or road pavement, aiming...
One of the key concerns of project managers is safety, including the risk of people getting injured or killed at site. Hence, for temporary working platforms, the need to measure...
Compaction is one of the most important processes in pavement construction and, done well, leads to long-lasting pavement performance and reduced maintenance costs. Our clients use Intelligent Compaction to create...
We find clients are often looking for ways to improve geotechnical testing outcomes and do it more efficiently at the same time. This drives their buying decision making. Australian Soil...
In an industry set with challenges of staff and skills shortages, and unrealistically low pricing for some traditional test methods, our approach as an industry needs to change. What we...
Engineers appear to be fixated on soil bearing capacity as the fundamental soil parameter for foundation design worldwide, with the assumption that the footing will behave as a rigid body....
One of our innovative clients, WSP, was looking for a way to assess the thickness of asphalt layers during the construction process and easily report their findings. They wanted to...
It’s seems like every few days we are having conversations relating to the shortage of lime supply or significant price increases. Is this an issue for you? We'd like to...
The acceptance of earthwork and unbound pavement construction in Australia currently relies mostly on density testing and CBRs for Quality Assurance (QA). Though its National Asset Centre of Excellence (NACoE)...
National Asset Centre of Excellence (NACOE), a collaboration of Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB), has released their final report for the Best practice in compaction...
It’s a common occurrence to see service trench works completed across road pavements settle and create a traffic hazard particularly when these trenches are installed after the original road pavement...
Whether we are involved in the site selection phase or the detailed design and specification phase of a solar farm, it’s essential we understand clearly the underlying ground conditions. Are...
Amongst rail track rehabilitation and maintenance teams, there is a constant drive to improve their ability to make better informed and more timely decisions for rail track maintenance works, including...
Contaminated sites present opportunities but can also pose significant risks. Asbestos and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are often encountered by our clients. They can be found on open development sites with...
It sounds so straight forward ..... halve the number of lifts by doubling the lift thickness. So why hasn't it been done more commonly before? Here is the logic. Lifts are typically...
Clients are always looking for ways to get a better understanding of the ground conditions at a specific point in time, and how the bearing capacity of a site has...
We always like getting involved in helping our clients solve difficult problems. This was on one of the world’s largest grid-connected PV power plants. Thousands of solar PV tracking panels across...
Have you noticed an increase in the number of questions relating to modulus based testing for soils? We certainly have. We are now wondering how soon this trend will gather...
We find our clients are increasingly demanding more accurate and more representative results that provide better insight on what’s going on below the surface when they are designing or constructing...
Insitu Test are going to be at CORE2018, Conference on Railway Excellence. We are field test equipment specialists for railway trackbeds, covering ballast condition assessment, soil investigation and characterisation, geotechnical...
The Plate Load Test is an excellent insitu site investigation field test used to determine the ultimate bearing capacity of the ground and the likely settlement under a given load....
One of the challenges our asphalting contractor clients and their consultants have been struggling with is how to test the gravel base before laying asphalt on top to make sure...
The geotechnical behaviour of tailings dams and thickened mine tailings or paste deposits can be defined by determining the compaction state and resistant properties. One of the methods to achieve this is...
One of the methods for measuring dynamic modulus on site and getting repeatable results immediately is using the Light Weight Deflectometer (LWD). By measuring the modulus value, the Light Weight...
The PANDOSCOPE® is a ‘new' non-destructive method of railway ballast condition assessment, which uses light and cost effective tests, based on the coupled use of the PANDA® dynamic cone penetrometer (a sophisticated DCP)...
The GRIZZLY is the first Dynamic Probing Super Heavy (DPSH) in the world to automatically adapt its impact energy to the hardness of the soils. This enables it to measure...
Reliability in the Testing & Assessing of Piling Work Platforms Cranes & Piling Rigs Technical Paper by Balfour Beatty - Ground Engineering Magazine - November 2012 Use of the Plate Load...
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