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Geotechnical

Our Experience: A foundation You Can Stand On

DEC’s most proficient skills lie in geotechnical engineering.  We have provided a wide ranging of services from foundation investigation to large earth dam design.  Our design expertise includes geotechnical related design and permitting for mining clients.


Additionally, we provide quality assurance for geotechnical related construction.  We have provided expert witness services for dams, foundations and mining projects. Other design experience includes:

  • Exploration Management
    • Subsurface drilling
    • Fault investigation
    • Mining structures
    • Damsite location
    • Monitoring wells
  • Shallow foundation design
    • Site Subsurface Investigation
    • Commerical Structures
    • Heavy Equipment Pads
    • Residental Building
  • Retaining wall systems
    • Free-standing walls
    • Mechanically stabilized earth
    • Geotechnical design of concrete retaining walls
  • Deep foundations
    • Sheet piles
    • Timber, pile and H-type piles
    • Pile inspection
  •  Seismic analysis / Slope stability
    • Slope stability
    • Seismicity assessments
    • Fault Investigations
  • Geothermal wells
    • System pads
    • Well Permit Applications

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 



 
 
 Exploration drilling at the failed Rodgers Dam.
 
 
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DEC has completed exploration drilling using a variety of drill methods.  These have included: Exploration Drilling