Geotechnical Engineering

SEC undertake Geotechnical assessments to provide Clients with advice in relation to foundation design, slope stability and pile design. Given our comprehensive service, geotechnical investigations can be seamlessly integrated with geo-environmental assessments resulting in a more time and cost efficient ground assessment.

Exploratory Site Investigation Methods

Sevenoaks Environmental Consultancy employ a number of different in-situ methods to carry out both factual and interpretative Geotechnical Site Investigations including:

Hand excavated trial pits
Mechanically excavated trial pits
Windowless sampler / Continuous Dynamic Sampler mini boreholes
Dynamic probes
Cable percussive drilling (with in-situ SPT / CPT and U100 tests)
Rotary drilling
In-situ CBRs
Plate load bearing tests

Effective Drainage Solutions

To help inform drainage strategy we also conduct soakage tests to comply with BRE365 guidance in order to determine whether soakaways would be an effective drainage solution at a particular site. Soakaways are typically used to collect surface runoff prior to being discharged into the surrounding ground.