The Ground Investigation Report

Factual Reporting

Factual reports are written by our highly qualified and experienced team of technical engineers and cover every aspect of the site investigation design, including:

• Purpose and scope of the investigation
• A factual account of all field and laboratory work.
• Exploratory hole records (boreholes, trial pits, window sample holes), including grid co-ordinates and ground elevation.
• In situ test results
• Laboratory test results including any contamination test results
• Results of groundwater level monitoring and any geoenvironmental monitoring
• Specialist test results (static or dynamic cone penetration test, geophysics, etc.)
• Site plan showing locations of exploratory holes.
• The provision of data in AGS electronic and other formats

Interpretative Reporting

Technical advice and the provision of consultancy services is available from our technical team who are highly qualified experts in a wide range of fields including geology, engineering geology and environmental chemistry. We can provide design solutions to geotechnical problems connected with:

• Adequate load bearing for shallow and deep foundations
• Settlement estimations  
• Slope instability/stability
• Causes of failure
• Risk of tunnel collapse
• Ground improvement
• Earthworks
• Environmental assessment