Rapid Reaction with Soil Engineering
When a specialist Trenchless & Civils Contractor realised they had water ingress issues in their Launch Pit, they turned to Soil Engineering for a rapid turnaround Ground Investigation
Due to project sensitivities we can’t name their project or client, but when it became apparent that the original GI for Stockton Drilling’s Direct Pipe Launch Pit had failed to provide adequate data on the groundwater conditions they reached out for urgent support. Thanks to Stockton‘s clear scope of works and provision of all available information regarding site layout and requirements our Preconstruction team were able to turn around a price proposal within a day. Juggling resource from our highly flexible plant and operations departments we were able to identify rigs and crews which could be diverted at short notice to commence works, breaking ground less than six days after the initial phone call.
The project scope initially included a series of rotary cored boreholes around the launch pit, with packer permeability testing undertaken to better understand the hydrogeological characteristics of the site. These were paired with dynamic probe testing to examine the consistency of the site’s overburden. Such was Stockton Drilling’s confidence in our team’s delivery, allied to their concern for potential similar issues at the reception pit, that they commissioned a further investigation at that location. Soil Engineering then facilitated plate bearing testing across the site to augment the dataset and ensure that conditions remained suitable for planned crane lift activities.
A technical case study is also available for this project here.
