Earth Sciences
Services
Geotechnical Engineering
Civil engineering and building
- Geotechnical investigations for:
- Feasibility studies
- Centre line surveys (roads)
- Detailed design
- Road and construction materials sourcing
- Slope stability assessments
- Development applications
Construction supervision and monitoring of:
- Earthworks
- Shallow foundations
- Pile installations
- Landfills
- Earth embankment dams
- Accelerated consolidation
Design of:
- Shallow and deep foundations
- Ground anchors
- Lateral support systems
- Cuttings and embankments
- Earth embankment dams
- Basements
- Ground improvement
Land use plans Mining
- Exploration and stability assessment
- Tailings dam design
- Tender documentation
- Rock-face stability
- Infrastructure design
Environmental Services
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
- Environmental Management Plans (EMPs)
- Environmental Management Programme Reports (EMPRs – Mining Right and Mining Permit Applications)
- Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
- Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs)
- Environmental audits
- Rehabilitation plans
- Contamination studies
- Due diligence assessments
- Public participation processes
- Biodiversity assessments
- Environmental risk assessments
- Corporate greening
- Carbon footprinting
Geohydrology
- Rural water supply
- Groundwater pollution/contamination studies
- Groundwater resource management and strategies
- Aerial photography interpretation
- Groundwater resource mapping and assessment\
- Groundwater resource sustainable determinations
- Groundwater feasibility studies and business plan preparation
- Groundwater holes siting, aquifer testing, management recommendations, development and design
- Geophysical investigations, including: magnetics, electromagnetics, seismics, resistivity profiles and soundings.
Geological Services
- Exploration
- Geological mapping
- Structural geology analysis and interpretation
- Geological database administration
- Borehole logging and sampling
- Aerial photography interpretation
- Geological modelling
- Resource estimations
- Geophysical exploration and interpretation
- Feasibility studies
- Prospecting and mining right applications
- Soil surveys (agricultural & mining)
Hydrology
- Catchment management
- Catchment yield analysis
- River basin development
- Environmental flow requirements
- Land use impact assessments
- Backwater and tailwater analysis
- Water use assessment
- Sediment yield analysis
- Peak discharge determination
- Floodline determination
- River hydraulic modelling
- Water resource climate change analyses
- Stormwater management plans
- Reservoir yield analyses
Waste Management
- Integrated Waste Management Plans (IWMPs)
- Operating and monitoring plans
- Section 78 assessments
- Development of Waste Information Systems (WIS)
- Landfill site selection
- Permitting of new waste disposal sites
- Closure permits for old sites
- Landfill design, including liners and capping
- Design of waste transfer stations and drop-off facilities
- Landfill gas and leachate management and design
- Design of composting facilities
- Co-disposal and delisting of hazardous wastes
- Litter studies
- Landfill audits
Contamination & Remediation Studies
- Groundwater monitoring scheme design
- Risk-based environmental site assessments
- Tiered approach to Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA)
- Underground storage tank assessments
- Soil and groundwater contamination studies
- Acid mine drainage studies
- Hydrocarbon contamination studies
- Pesticide contamination studies
- Remediation design and implementation