Core Geotechnics Limited

Welcome to Core Geotechnics Limited

Core Geotechnics Limited was formed in 2008 to provide specialist geotechnical and geo-environmental consultancy services.

The company comprises three directors who between them offer 70 years experience within the UK ground investigation industry. The company aim is to provide the highest standard of professional judgement and service to our clients and to use our experience to provide established and innovative solutions to the wide range of geotechnical and geo-environmental challenges that exist within the built environment.

Our Client base includes architects, structural engineers, principal contractors, insurance companies through to private individuals. Projects may range from investigations for multi-million pound academies to housing estates and individual houses through to small extensions.

When employing Core Geotechnics you can be assured that you will deal solely with a director who can offer considerable experience in the design and costing of ground investigations and carry out detailed design and analysis to budget and programme.

The director will be responsible for all aspects of a given project, from design/costing, to supervision of the site work through to reporting and will provide a single point of contact for the Client.

Core undertakes initial site assessments and appraisals to identify potential geotechnical and geo-environmental risks and allow economic design for Phase 2 intrusive investigation. Ground risks such as contamination, ground gas as well as geotechnical issues such as desiccation, dissolution features, mining etc are assessed with reference to various site specific geological and geo-environmental data sources.

Our site work services include:

• Hand and machine excavated trial pits
• Hand held window sampling
• In-situ testing including CBR, plate bearing tests, dynamic probing, soakaway, cone penetration testing, geophysical techniques, pressuremeter testing, infiltration and permeability testing
• Drilling of boreholes utilising dynamic sampling, cable percussion and rotary techniques
• Installation of monitoring instrumentation - standpipes, piezometers, inclinometers, extensometers and survey datums

In recognition of the need to ensure good quality ground data, all site works are supervised by a Chartered Geologist who would have designed the investigation and prepared the report.

Core offers geotechnical and geo-environmental consultancy and provides recommendations for: design of spread and piled foundations and settlement assessments

• Deep excavations and basement design
• Ground improvement works
• Desiccation assessments
• Ground stability assessment of mining and dissolution related voids
• Earthworks assessment and pavement design
• Soil and rock slope stability including PPG14 Reports
• Advice on retaining wall design
• Assessment of contamination risks to groundworkers and site end users
• Assessment of contamination risks to surface and ground waters
• Classification of waste for off-site disposal
• Chemical attack on buried concrete
• Advice on ground treatment
• Validation of works

Core have become increasingly involved in providing specific advice to our clients, including technical reviews of ground investigation reports prepared by others, assessment and design of tracked plant working platforms, review and checking of pile designs and post failure foundation assessments.

Please contact a member of our team with any questions