Plough Geotechnical Ltd, Slope and Quarry Stability Specialists
- By Plough Geo
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- 16 Apr, 2018
Subsidence, Landslip and Slope Failure
Once a slope has failed, potentially causing harm to people, damage property and transport links, it can be very expensive to correct and rectify, often leading to court cases where blame is apportioned accordingly. Careful upfront analysis of the ground by Plough Geotechnical Ltd, Slope and Quarry Specialists will provide detail on:
- Reducing the risk and effects of land stability
- Preventing developments being built in inappropriate areas
- Helping to convert unsuitable land into usable space
Reducing the Risk of Slope Failure
Plough Geotechnical Ltd work with many different slope and quarry stability projects including:
- Quarry access
- Landfill foundation layers
- Temporary earthworks
- Mining slag heaps
Plough Geotechnical Ltd work in any areas where you need the expertise to create safe, stable slopes and reduce the risk of failure by offering:
- Expert slope design – creating stable slopes using complex computer models
- Safe working conditions – with slopes designed to take the weight of plant and vehicles
- Design assessment – double checking the calculations on your slope designs
- Legislative compliance – including HSE Safe Working and formal five yearly quarry inspections
- Remedial slope work – practical, pragmatic solutions to correct failures
- Expert witness – investigating the reasons for slope failure.
Contact Plough Geotechnical Ltd
If you need some expert advice and understanding of any Geotechnical issues that your project 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
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.
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.
