Site investigations and geotechnical
engineering for land and marine outfalls are a particular area of
expertise Our team of experienced geotechnical engineers
and engineering geologists provides cost-effective geotechnical
services to meet the varying needs of all our clients – architects,
property developers, insurance companies, local authorities and
contractors.
Typical projects include main drainage schemes, tunnels, deep shaft
construction, buried storage and containment, fire water retention
ponds, flood control structures, deep excavations and retaining
structures. In all cases we use the most up to date modelling and
analysis techniques including finite element software to model soil
structure interaction.
With the added advantage of being able to draw on the
internationally renowned geotechnical expertise available within
the wider Mott MacDonald Group, we offer capabilities
covering:
- Planning and supervision of ground investigations on any
scale
- Groundworks design and supervision
- Settlement analysis
- Remediation of structural subsidence
- Earthworks and slope stabilisation design
- Geotechnical input to environmental reports
- Geotextiles specification
- Foundation design
- Due diligence reports
- Percolation tests for soakaways
- Retaining wall design
