Geotechnical Services Tampa How Do Engineers and Developers Use Geotechnical Services?
Tampa geotechnical drilling firms such as Amdrill, Inc. frequently perform geotechnical services, which can include drilling efforts which are an important aspect of the surveying process. The integrity of the soil and underlying bedrock at a site will have a major impact on the overall stability of the site. Other wildcards, such as highly saturated soil, a high-water table or underground voids, can complicate matters significantly, resulting in the potential for serious instability or even a catastrophic collapse.
Several different clients utilize our geotechnical services. Tampa engineers, including civil engineers, along with developers, property owners and other companies (particularly companies in the energy sector) call upon our expert technicians to provide geotechnical drilling services in a wide range of environments, including on land, in remote forested locations, in wetlands and in marine or ocean environments.
What Are the Uses for Geotechnical Services?
Tampa drilling technicians with Amdrill, Inc. provide geotechnical services that span a number of different areas. Some of the clients who contract our firm include the following.
Civil engineers – call upon our drilling technicians to help gather key data from a site so they can solve an engineering challenge, whether it’s with a canal, levee, bridge, roadway or drainage system.
Construction and building engineers – who are designing large commercial and industrial buildings, multi-unit office or residential structures, bridges, canals, communications towers, wind turbines, or other structures, particularly those that are especially large, tall, heavy or otherwise unique. We can gather data from the soil and bedrock that allows experts to evaluate the suitability of a site.
Construction firms and developers – who need help installing stabilization rods into the bedrock to create a “deep foundation” or to stabilize an unstable structure. We can also assist with extracting samples from the foundation if it’s suspected that defective or otherwise problematic building materials are present.
Sinkhole investigation and sinkhole remediation companies – that require help accessing an underground void that they wish to fill with cement to prevent a collapse. Some remediation efforts may also involve penetrating down into the underlying bedrock and inserting stabilization rods to help support a structure that’s overlaying the potential sinkhole site.
Environmental firms – that require help evaluating a site for the presence, nature or extent of contamination. This can include evaluating for the depth of contamination, the precise location of the contamination, and whether the contaminants have reached underground aquifers, wells or other water supplies.
Notably, Amdrill, Inc. has lots of different drilling rigs, which can be placed on a variety of different vehicles, including boats, barges, trucks, ATVs, remote controlled vehicles and even vehicles with tank-like tracks, which are ideal for rugged, hard-to-access areas. So, there is virtually no area that’s inaccessible to our Tampa geotechnical service providers.
*Disclaimer: The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of Amdrill Inc*
