Pre-design / Feasibility

› Predesign geotechnical investigations
› Condition surveys of existing structures and facilites
› Prepurchase site investigations
› Pavement evaluations
› Value engineering

Existing Facilities

› Load capacity assessments
› Settlement prediction and monitoring
› Underpinning requirements
› Excavation and shoring
› Failure investigation

Construction

› Excavation and shoring
› Footing construction
› Deep foundation systems
› Underpinning
› Filling and Backfilling
› Compaction
› Blasting control

Special Projects

› Air photo interpretation & terrain evaluation
› Drainage studies
› Earth & rock-fill dam design
› Engineering geology
› Failure investigations
› Geothermal studies
› Gravel searches
› Differential settlement & subsidence analysis
› Landfill site selection
› Natural resource studies
› Permafrost assessment
› Slope, embankment, landslide & erosion evaluations
› Tunnel instability investigations

Design

› Foundation types & depths
› Allowable bearing pressures
› Estimated total & differential settlements
› Surcharge loading
› Footing construction
› Types & lengths of piles or caissons for deep foundations
› Lateral earth pressures for retaining structures
› Underpinning
› Tunnel excavation & support
› Slope stability
› Pavement evaluation & design
› Life cycle costing
› Frost susceptibility of the soil
› Construction & permanent ground water conditions
› Seepage control and dewatering
› Grading & subsurface drainage requirements
› Corrosive effects of ground water
› Laboratory testing