Our focus for land development clients is using modern ground improvement and in situ testing methods to reduce construction timeframes, lower construction costs, improve quality, reduce risk and reduce your environmental footprint.
Situations include:
- Commercial, industrial and residential sites (including contaminated and problematic sites)
- Data centres
- Civil infrastructure (e.g. residential subdivisions)
- Roads
- Drainage, Water & Waste Water and Cable Trenching
- Quarry infill – rehabilitating or repurposing empty, dormant, or exhausted quarry sites, transforming them into residential, commercial, or recreational spaces, or filling them with materials to stabilise the land
- Landfills (active and closed) – For active landfills, we increase capacity, allowing for more efficient use of landfill space and extending the landfill’s operational life. For closed landfills, we accelerate settlement and improve the effectiveness of capping layers to prevent gas leakage. Often, closed landfills become local government sporting fields where an even playing surface is highly desirable.
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We engage deeply, forging partnerships that elevate businesses and challenge the status quo. We envision a smarter, more resilient future for civil construction – where technology, expertise, and collaboration drive lasting impact.
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Typical conversations with land developers are around answering questions like:
- How to convert an uncontrolled fill site into engineered fill site, without remove and replace
- How to compact much deeper lifts of freshly placed or in situ material and test the compaction integrity
- How to accelerate settlement or minimise differential settlement
- How to increase placed loose lift thickness (even double) with standard vibratory rollers and then test compaction
- How to increase compaction uniformity and eliminate under and over rolling
- How to reduce time between compaction testing and getting results
- How to assess compaction at all stages for trenching and trench backfill
What questions are you looking to answer? We’d love to hear from you.
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