Geotechnical Expertise for Residential Developers
- By Plough Geo
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- 23 Aug, 2018
Are you a residential developer looking to build new homes? Looking to build an individual house or extension? Have you found your new-build plot of land yet? With increasing pressures on suitable land for development, developers and builders are finding it increasingly difficult to find suitable land. Often this pushes new homes being built on far-from-perfect land and requires geotechnical expertise for residential developers to ensure the homes they build are fit-for-purpose.
Land Stability
Building on any land requires detailed analysis to establish the stability of the land that is available. This will expose any weaknesses or issues prior to the build and can help rectify any present or future site problems that could be costly to repair in the future. Alan Binns, from Plough Geotechnical Ltd offers geotechnical expertise for residential developers across the UK, helping them to identify site issues which may lead to the following:
- Uneven surfaces – due to settlement
and land movement
- Collapsed Drains – caused by land
movement and costly repairs
- Cracked Brickwork – due to
settlement and creating damage to buildings
Plough Geotechnical Specialist Support
Alan Binns and the Team at Plough Geotechnical Ltd can provide specialist reports on all aspects of land stability connected with residential developments. Expert technical advice from the team before building commences will allow the land to be prepared for the development, creating a secure and stable platform and reducing the chances of land movement in the future, ultimately saving the developer costs in the future.
Land Settlement Investigation
For those existing developments that have experienced damage through land movement, Plough Geotechnical Ltd offer an expert witness service, examining the ground and land around the focus area and creating a detailed report of what has happened and the remedial action to be taken to rectify the situation and prevent further land movement and damage.
Plough Geotechnical Ltd – Saving You Costs in the Future
If you need some expert advice and understanding of any Geotechnical issues that your development may be facing, then contact Alan at Plough Geotechnical Ltd for an initial, informal chat about how you may be able to work together.
Tel: 0151 353 1730
Mob: 07957 659 819
Email: alan@ploughgeo.co.uk
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This one day course will provide a general overview of slope stability design for
geotechnical practitioners and engineers.
The course is aimed at technical staff with first degrees in civil engineering,
construction, geology and related subjects; it will also be useful to non-technical staff
who wish to gain an appreciation of the various factors involved in slope stability
design. The mathematics in the worked examples is not complicated – the aim of the
course is to give attendees an understanding of the physics of the problem not a
course in mathematics.
The course will look at how information is obtained and then used to provide a
design for stable slopes. It will also look at the derivation of the formulae used for
slope design.
Course content
Shear strength of soils
EC7 design: Partial Factors and Limit State Design of slopes
Short term and long term conditions in cuttings and embankments
Plane translational slides
Rotational slides
Factor of safety
Computer methods
Rock slopes - plane, wedge and curved failures
At the end of the course the delegates should have :
An understanding of how soil and rock slopes fail
An appreciation of the philosophy of EC7 design
A basic understanding of the analysis and design of slopes in soils and rocks..
The next courses will be Thursday 19th September in Banbury and Friday 11th October at Birchwood,Warrington .
To book your place visit https://www.equipegroup.com/training/geotechnical/slope-stability-design
Commercial developments, such as retail parks, office blocks, industrial units and other non-residential projects are often built on brown-field sites. The land around these sites can often be unstable due to previous developments, landfill and prior re-modelling of the landscape. Similar to residential developments, the land needs to be analysed before any building work is undertaken, to ensure that the ground is stable and remains so in the future. Commercial developments often need a high load bearing platform and deeper foundations, possibly underground development where land stability, free from movement is essential. Wirral based Plough Geotechnical Ltd are specialists in providing Geotechnical support for commercial developments across the UK.
