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Who’s logging your soil?
I have spent most of my career with small and medium sized ground investigation / geotechnical specialists, and one of the benefits of how we work...
What you need to know about PCBs and PFAS – AKA ‘The Forever Chemicals’
Juliet Fuller, Associate Director at GEA, recently attended Environment Analyst’s annual Groundwater conference. Here, the updated approaches to the...
Investigating chlorinated solvent contamination to inform remediation design using Discrete Interval Sampling
In the mid-1980s, a site in the East of England suffered a significant leakage of the chlorinated solvent Perchloroethylene (PCE), causing land and...
Support where it’s needed: providing independent piling expertise to inform foundation design
At GEA, we are increasingly called upon to provide independent advice in respect of piling problems. Our experience of geology, ground engineering...
Ground investigation of suspected contaminated land for residential development
Case Study: Barlby Road Residential Development, W10 Architects: Stiff+TrevillionEngineers: ConisbeeClient: Royal Borough of Kensington and...
From seminars to sites: supporting future generations of geotechnical engineers with hands-on industry placements
Whilst rarely visible to the general public, we are surrounded by amazing examples of geotechnical engineering, impacting the highways and rail...
Getting to know GEA with Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Susie Marley
GEA Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Susie Marley, has provided a 'Getting to Know GEA' article for the January 2021 Issue of the AGS Magazine. She...
Climate change: do you really need that borehole?
Many of us will have spent time today reading the news stories on the IPCC report on climate change, which make for sobering reading. And many...
Are there really any “unknown unknowns” in the ground….?
....or, do you really know that your ground investigation will be "straightforward"? Donald Rumsfeld's "known knowns, known unknowns and unknown...