Infrastructure (Tunnels, Bridges, Highways, Railways, Ports, utilities and dams)
We have significant experience in the design and development of highway, rail, airport, harbour/port, reservoir and utilities projects, as swell as on the design of foundations and approach works for bridges and assessment of slopes, embankments and dams.
From desk study through to site investigation, design, specification, tendering, and construction, we can support our Clients at all stages of a new infrastructure project and can offer expertise on monitoring, maintenance, enhancement and protection of existing assets.
Since the 1980’s, we has been involved in a very large number of geotechnical engineering projects related to the design of tunnels and embankments and on the assessment of the impact of construction works on existing metro tunnels and stations and existing mainline railway lines and facilities. These assessments include: determining the impact of the works on the asset, developing mitigation measures to ensure that they impacts on the assets are tolerable, and preparing Monitoring Action Plans to monitor the asset during construction with appropriate response actions for all foreseen eventualities.
Our experience ranges from relatively small pipe jacks to Crossrail, the largest civil engineering project in Europe, and from small railway embankments and cuttings, to tall bunds in excess of 15m height. We also retain a unique expertise on the design and implementation of dams, which we have developed from direct experience of working with our founder Prof. Vaughan, an authority in the field.
Our extensive expertise on tunnelling has recently found application on Horizontal Directional Drilling, a techniques on which we are at the forefront of understanding and application. As with structures, we can support our work on infrastructures using simple analytical methods or sophisticated numerical analysis with 2D and 3D modelling capabilities and the ability to model soil-structure interaction in the most sophisticated and realistic manner.
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Many of our projects are confidential, but here are a few that showcase our work:
