Services

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Subsurface Explorations
  • Cone Penetrometer Testing
  • Laboratory Testing
  • Seismic Hazard Analyses
  • Site Specific Response Spectra
  • Slope Stability Analyses
  • Pile Analysis
  • Soil Stabilization & Grouting
  • Feasibility Studies and Value Engineering Evaluation
  • Hazard Mitigation Recommendations
  • Foundation Design and Grading Recommendations
  • Pavement Design
  • Geotechnical Reports
  • Construction Observation and Testing

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Fault Trenching Studies
  • Landslide Studies
  • Rockfall Analysis
  • Hydrogeology

Design of Earth Support Systems

Value-engineered design, design-build, and third party review services for hillside developments, coastal bluffs, and property-line structures.

  • Earth Retention Systems (conventional walls, soldier beam and shotcrete walls, tieback or soil nail walls, secant pile walls, modular and plantable walls, hybrid walls)
  • Slope Stabilization Systems (dowels, caissons and grade beams, tiebacks, tiedowns, geogrids)
  • Temporary Sheeting and Shoring
  • Dewatering Systems
  • Ground Improvement and Grouting
  • Foundation and Slab Rehabilitation (jacking, injection, underpinning)

Forensic & Expert Witness Services

Landslides, bluff retreat, distressed foundations and slabs, ground subsidence, expansive soils, slope creep, vibration damage, water damage, dewatering problems, tieback problems, shoring problems, loss of lateral and subjacent support.

  • Forensic Geotechnical Investigations
  • Evaluation of Distressed Foundations and Slabs
  • Evaluation of Construction Impact on Adjacent Properties (vibrations, dewatering, loss of lateral support)
  • Standard of Care, Code Compliance, and Value Diminution Issues
  • Computer Analysis and Modeling
  • Remedial Design and Quantity Estimation
  • Expert Witness Testimony
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Instrumentation and Monitoring

  • Structure and Substructure Movements (tiltmeters, crack gages, manometer surveys)

Earthquake Engineering & Seismicity

  • Seismic Hazard Analysis
  • Fault Studies
  • Probabilistic Risk Analysis
  • Deterministic Risk Analysis
  • Probabilistic Acceleration
  • Spectral Response Accelerations
  • Earthquake Induced Liquefaction Analysis
  • Earthquake Induced Lateral Spreading
  • Site Specific Studies and Response Spectra Analysis
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