Geotechnical services
Practical innovations that integrate customer needs with cost efficient solutions.
AMEC’s professionals recognize that each project, large or small, is important to our customers. This understanding results in practical innovations that integrate our customers’ needs with cost efficient solutions. AMEC’s people take this commitment seriously.
Service Sectors
- Mining
- Power
- Oil and Gas / Energy / Pipelines
- Forestry
- Industrial and Commercial
- Transportation
Geotechnical Engineering as it is today evolved from the early work of Karl Terzaghi. The last 60 years have seen the development of geotechnical practices employing a wide variety of skills and techniques ranging from site mapping and characterization to advanced theoretical analyses and performance monitoring. Since 1950, AMEC’s geotechnical engineers have contributed and continued to contribute to this development by providing a high level of expertise in the following service areas:
- Site Investigation and Characterization
- Foundation Engineering
- Engineering Geology
- Rock Mechanics
- Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology
- Arid Region Geotechnics
- Risk and Hazard Assessment
- Geo-Environmental Engineering
- In-situ and Laboratory Testing
- Arctic and Permafrost Engineering
- Marine Geotechnics
- Ground Improvement Design
- Engineering Geophysics
- Geotechnical Monitoring
- Terrain Analysis
- Embankment Engineering
- Hydrogeology
AMEC’s customers receive comprehensive geotechnical service from site or route selection through innovative investigation and design, to construction monitoring. AMEC can also provide the full range of engineering procurement, construction management and staff capabilities to meet the following project needs:
- Site Investigation and In-situ Testing
- Materials Search and Borrow Evaluation
- Seepage Control and Design
- Design of Leach Pads and Solution Ponds
- Design and Reclamation of Tailings Dams and Waste Dumps
- Route Selection for Pipelines, Roads and Power Transmission
- Slope Stability and Landslide Control
- Hazardous Waste Disposal
- Design of Underground Openings, Earth Retention Systems, Tunnels and Shafts
- Rock Slope Stability
- Liquefaction Assessments
- Rock Anchors and Rock Sockets
- Geologic Hazard Evaluation
- Risk Assessment
- Hydrogeological Investigations
- Design of Footing, Mat and Pile Foundations
AMEC has an established track record of solving problems in difficult ground conditions. We are experienced with most combinations of rock, soil and water known on earth, such as:
- Residual and Tropical Soils
- Caliche or Calcrete
- Soft Clays and Marls
- Peat and Muskeg
- Bentonitic Shales
- Loose Liquefiable Sand and Silt
- Glacial Ice
- River Deposits
- Ice Rich or Saline Permafrost
- Deep Water Sediments
- Swelling Soils and Rocks
- Stiff Fissured and Slickensided Clay
- Karst
- Old Mine Workings
- Oil Sands
- Debris Flows
- Coral Reefs
- Loess and Alluvial Collapsing Soils
- Frost Action
- Dispersive Soils
- Calcareous Sands
- Ground Subsidence
- Fill Materials
- Reinforced Soil