We have experience and expertise in
- Organizing interdisciplinary teams concerning construction methodology, risks, design and maintenance issues and concerns
- Acting as an expert witnesses in both court cases and meditations in legal cases
- Design repair plans for complex failures, including remediation problems
- Experienced in the design and analysis of large earthwork structures, including trenching, water dams and pipes, slopes, rock dumps, and waste tailing
- Detailed analytical and numerical studies of geo-hydrological studies
- Experienced in the application of geophysical techniques to near-surface civil engineering problems
- We have specified, designed and performed laboratory and field testing of many kinds, including permeability and water quality testing, thermal property testing, electrical conductivity testing, corrosivity testing, dynamic property testing, and strength testing
- Forensic analysis and testing of failures
- Design and analysis of remediation systems for contaminated soils
- Buried pipeline design, including selection of optimum back-fill properties
- Trenching and slope stability analysis, including liquefaction problems
- Geotechnical failure analysis, including earthquake problems
- Analysis of pipeline blasts- have acted as an expert witness in such court cases
- Soil corrosion studies and associated pipe corrosion analyses
- Foundation analysis, including foundations on expansive soils, vibrating loads, wind loading, and impact loading
- Retaining wall design and analysis, and effective repair planning
- Dam failure and erosion control and analysis
- Hydrologic and watershed calculations; groundwater pollutant migration studies
- Laboratory testing of dynamic properties of various geological materials
- Complex laboratory strength testing of soil and rock strength properties
- In-situ testing of dynamic properties of various geological structures
- Field testing and instrumentation of full-scale geotechnical structures
- Theoretical modeling (analytic and numerical) of full-scale structures