Category Archives: Rock slopes

BURIED RIVERS – INTERESTING SNIPPET!

We came across the following snippet on LinkedIn recently and thought it a useful reminder that when assessing ground risk you need to do more than just commission an Envirocheck Report or similar….

“Did you know that many of London’s rivers have been ‘lost’? This can be rather important if you are building a basement. The rivers Fleet, Tyburn, and Westbourne, to name but a few, historically ran through London to the Thames. Many were replaced by combined sewers in the late 19th Century and are no longer seen at surface.”

The river flowing through a basement is quite amusing, especially the fish that seem to be visible!  For more details follow this link  to the original article.

 

EXCELLENCE DEMONSTRATED!

Surepath Consulting is part of Surepath Training, and as part of our quality processes we have recently audited our training course feedback. The headline finding was a 94% excellent / very good rating of all the quantitative feedback received for our courses, with a 2:1 bias to excellent. This superb feedback is something we are very proud of, and it reflects too the emphasis we put on quality in all our consultancy work too! Please contact our Andy Goodwin using the Contacts page if you wish to discuss how we can ensure quality of delivery for all your consultancy, training or mentoring needs.

 

NEW SLOPE STABILITY PROJECT

We are pleased to announce that we are about to commence a new project in Yorkshire for retail, commercial and leisure facilities. The confidential site requires construction of a development plateau through a cut and fill exercise across the sloping site. One part of the site will require a large excavation into a dipping rock mass, and Surepath have been retained as a sub-consultant to address the stability issues posed by the proposed works. The ground investigation is underway, which will include deep trial pitting to facilitate insitu logging of the rock mass structure to complement rotary cored drillholes. We aim to be able to release further details of the project in the coming weeks.

 

HIGH WALL SLOPE STABILITY REVIEW SERVICES

We recently provided sub-consultancy support in connection with the stability of proposed high walls to a coal extraction facility. The work required the appraisal of the geology, hydrogeology and past mining at the confidential site in Yorkshire,  before an appraisal of the stability issues was completed to support preliminary slope design recommendations. The assessment required the ground risk around the proposed works to be zoned, and required too consideration of the potential impact of the coal extraction on third party infrastructure.

 

ROCK SLOPE APPRAISAL FOR COAL EXTRACTION SITE

Surepath Consulting recently completed a preliminary rock slope appraisal for a proposed coal extraction site in Yorkshire for a mining contractor. The assessment required the appraisal of specific ground risk zones affecting the stability of the high walls, including the influence of past mining activities, the potential impact of third party infrastructure, and the effects on adjacent developments.